Edsurge
MAY 29, 2020
Throughout, the playbook explores themes of providing students with support in online courses, making such courses equitable, and the importance of continuously improving them. Here are summaries of the four essential elements of successful online courses, according to the playbook.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 16, 2017
Colleges and universities in the United States are increasingly integrating technology into developmental education programs, which are designed to bring underprepared students up to college level. Policymakers in Tennessee and Texas, for example, have explicitly encouraged the use of technology in developmental education reform.
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Edsurge
OCTOBER 22, 2020
One of the most empirically supported best practices of online education is for the instructor to “be present.” Fourth, be brave and conduct a mid-term, anonymous evaluation of your course. Traditional end-of-course evaluations do your current students no good.
Faculty Focus
MARCH 13, 2025
2002) noted that under the current system, if a professor does change a course based on student evaluations, the students who made these comments do not have the opportunity to experience the changes, and that of course reinforces the idea that faculty ignore student evaluations (p. Sojka et al. Diamond, M. Spencer, K.
Edsurge
JUNE 19, 2017
The study also noted that some higher education leaders were “less certain” about the impact self-directed learning would have in the university space. And those student attitudes can have an impact, since students who don’t like the changes being implemented sometimes leave harsh critiques of the course in their course evaluations.
Edsurge
MARCH 17, 2020
Andersen, who has been teaching remotely for a decade, sees a certain irony in the sudden demand that adjuncts pick up distance education skills on the fly. Under normal circumstances, she’s found that full-time instructors tend to lay first claim to online courses, leaving few for adjuncts to take.
Faculty Focus
MARCH 13, 2025
2002) noted that under the current system, if a professor does change a course based on student evaluations, the students who made these comments do not have the opportunity to experience the changes, and that of course reinforces the idea that faculty ignore student evaluations (p. Sojka et al. Diamond, M. Spencer, K.
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