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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. Where flexibility of how a project is completed can be given, encourage students to try something new or try a new technology to implement their idea.

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What Job Design Can Teach Us About Course Design

Faculty Focus

As with all course design choices, these ideas are not required for success; you are welcome to choose what feels authentic to your style. Where flexibility of how a project is completed can be given, encourage students to try something new or try a new technology to implement their idea.

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

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But the two faculty unions, the university’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, and the EMU Federation of Teachers, which represents adjuncts, say that the company is involved in many aspects of course design and could bring in outside online coaches for students without faculty oversight.

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Integrating Guest Speakers and Panelists in Online Courses 

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Easily overlooked in this process can be maintaining the use of outside experts as guest speakers, panelists, or evaluators because of condensed class formats and the reliance on asynchronous elements in online course designs. Intentional tech: Principles to guide the use of educational technology in college teaching.

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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 

Faculty Focus

Easily overlooked in this process can be maintaining the use of outside experts as guest speakers, panelists, or evaluators because of condensed class formats and the reliance on asynchronous elements in online course designs. Intentional tech: Principles to guide the use of educational technology in college teaching.

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Integrating Active Learning in Large STEM Lectures

Scholarly Teacher

This piece will suggest a few simple ideas that teachers of introductory STEM classes may implement in their course design to turn their lectures into active learning experiences for a large student body, without needing to completely revisit and change their whole teaching style. How long should they last? research.com.