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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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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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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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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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?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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What College Students Wish Faculty and Admins Knew About Teaching

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I wish there were better ways of sharing my concerns other than at the end of the semester when you fill out those [teacher evaluations]. Do students take those evaluations seriously or do faculty take those evaluations seriously? I see for example some professors doing an informal course evaluation midway of the semester.

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How to Demonstrate Confidence in Your Teaching

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Our strength may already be worn down by going through a challenging promotion and tenure process, or after years of having our research evaluated by peer reviewers who sometimes reject work without giving effective feedback; or reading negative comments from students on our course evaluations.

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