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

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And if incoming students do not see the difference between the online instruction offered by their community college and by a traditional four-year residential school, many university administrators should be nervous indeed. Fourth, be brave and conduct a mid-term, anonymous evaluation of your course.

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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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What If Students Are the Biggest Barrier to Innovation?

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One student wrote me this email saying he went to business school, was a professional, and had never spent so much time one assignment. 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.

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

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For that reason, Ahn argues that it’s the kind of course every college should offer — and possibly high schools as well. For instance, in course evaluations I seek out negative reviews. It’s not just about learning how stupid that people are and how many errors we can make in our thinking,” she says.

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For Online Class Discussions, Instructors Move From Text to Video

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The threaded discussion felt always like the wrong medium for learning,” says Joyce Valenza, an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information, who has been teaching online since 2001. In the course of a semester-long course, this is not a binary decision [between text and video].

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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. Earlier, Springer was associate dean at NYU’s School of Professional Studies.

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Using the LMS Effectively to Reduce Logistical Challenges for Students 

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Being consistent in our use of the LMS features, whether that is within the program or department, school or college, can help reduce stress for students and faculty alike and allow students to focus their energy on learning instead of navigating their courses. This appreciation is often mentioned in end-of-term evaluations.

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