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New 'Playbook' Explains Four Elements of Great Online Courses

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Throughout, the playbook explores themes of providing students with support in online courses, making such courses equitable, and the importance of continuously improving them. Course Evaluation Instructors should also grade themselves, so to speak.

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What If Students Are the Biggest Barrier to Innovation?

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Marilyn Morgan, a history professor at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, echoed sentiments in the report saying that students, particularly those in her department, are reluctant to engage with education technology and find personalized learning techniques, such as group and self-directed learning, frustrating.

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Colleges Can Turn Classes Into Virtual Communities. Here’s How.

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Fourth, be brave and conduct a mid-term, anonymous evaluation of your course. Traditional end-of-course evaluations do your current students no good. A clear, upfront communication policy stipulating response times can be very helpful for avoiding misunderstandings.

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?Anticipating and Addressing Challenges With Technology in Developmental Education

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Policymakers in Tennessee and Texas, for example, have explicitly encouraged the use of technology in developmental education reform. Course management technology organizes and presents course structure and materials on an electronic platform. Student support technology supports students’ academic performance.

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For Online Class Discussions, Instructors Move From Text to Video

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In the course evaluations at the end of the semester they write that our class has really formed a community,” she says. Cheryl Bonsall, a former student in the course, says that delivering her responses by video rather than writing "made me more accountable for my words and my message."

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Adjusting to Emergency Online Instruction Poses Extra Challenges For Adjunct Faculty

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And it stresses that staff should be protected against “the punitive use of negative teaching evaluations during the period of the disruption.” That’s a serious concern, Hardy explains, because "for many adjuncts, they are judged solely on student course evaluations.”

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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These portfolios bring those internal workings out in ways that a syllabus or course evaluations could never capture,” she says. And she says her attitudes toward teaching have also changed, to focus more on stressing student collaboration and the thinking process of historians.