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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. Disclosure: EdSurge is a participant in the network. Course Components What materials will impart the right information to students?

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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. I incentivize participation to ensure students use it to share and discuss class news and course content.

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Adjusting to Emergency Online Instruction Poses Extra Challenges For Adjunct Faculty

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Even adjuncts who do have experience teaching online at one institution may find themselves asked to participate in more training at another—professional development time that may or may not be compensated. “We We accept transfer credit for students, why don’t we accept transfer courses for adjuncts?” She thinks it went pretty well.)

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Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson in ‘Thinking 101’

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For instance, in course evaluations I seek out negative reviews. So we end up, even though 96 percent of the course evolutions were all positive, the 4 percent really is something that caused me to ruminate. So my favorite example is that there is a fallacy that I commit myself all the time, which is imposter syndrome.

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For Online Class Discussions, Instructors Move From Text to Video

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For many students, participating in online class discussions feels like a chore—a box to check off for participation points rather than a lively dialogue. “I He’s taking three online courses this semester, all of which require him to participate in online discussion forums as part of his grade.

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What It Takes For a College to Go Online

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Engage Faculty in the Decision to Go Online “If faculty don’t participate, you won’t have a program,” says Lisa Springer, provost at LIM College, a small Manhattan fashion-management school. It met only once and was never invited to participate in the work of the wider committee.

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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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