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What Job Design Can Teach Us About Course Design

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As with all course design choices, these ideas are not required for success; you are welcome to choose what feels authentic to your style. reading, watching videos, discussing with peers). One hundred years of work design research: Looking back and looking forward. Journal of Applied Psychology , 102 (3), 403-420.

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What Job Design Can Teach Us About Course Design

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As with all course design choices, these ideas are not required for success; you are welcome to choose what feels authentic to your style. reading, watching videos, discussing with peers). One hundred years of work design research: Looking back and looking forward. Journal of Applied Psychology , 102 (3), 403-420.

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Professors Take Out Ads Protesting Their University’s Online Degree Programs

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But they won’t have the quality, scholarship and service that are hallmarks of a true EMU education,” reads the advertisement created by two faculty unions at Eastern Michigan. AP does not provide any teaching assistance nor oversight of it,” she added. These degrees will carry the EMU name. They are NOT replacements.

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Integrating Guest Speakers and Panelists in Online Courses 

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Oftentimes, putting a brick-and-mortar course online begins by preserving the readings and assessments, and then considering adaptations to replace all or some of the “live” elements of interactive lectures. All four approaches preserve an essential element of traditional brick-and-mortar classroom experiences.

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How an Experimental Online Course Helped One Anthropology Department Keep a Professor and a Half

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Plus, it sounded a lot like a MOOC (short for “massive open online courses”)—free courses designed for thousands of students that were all the rage a few years ago, but which today are seen as having fallen far short of the hype. He also used some of the money to send his teaching assistants to cities around the globe.

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Integrating Guest Speakers and Panelists in Online Courses 

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Oftentimes, putting a brick-and-mortar course online begins by preserving the readings and assessments, and then considering adaptations to replace all or some of the “live” elements of interactive lectures. All four approaches preserve an essential element of traditional brick-and-mortar classroom experiences.

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How Conducting a Mixed-mode Class is Similar to Hosting a Late-night Talk Show

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Think about visual aids you might be using—drawings, equations, PowerPoint slides—and if they can be read and understood both by the in-person students and the students viewing remotely.

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