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Coronavirus Has Led to a Rush of Online Teaching. Here’s Some Advice for Newly Remote Instructors

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Use Polls to Keep Students Engaged There are many tools available to pose multiple-choice questions to students remotely. Or professors can just ask students to respond to a prompt in the text chat included in most video conference platforms.

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Retrieval in Action: Creative Strategies from Real Teachers

Cult of Pedagogy

” Peer Instruction This strategy turns a simple multiple-choice question into a quick collaborative activity. “Present students with a multiple choice question.” “Multiple choice is great because you can assess students’ knowledge quickly and equitably.

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Test Grading Cloud available to all teachers for free

eSchool News

is offering instructors a free 60-day subscription to its popular Remark Test Grading Cloud application. Using electronic bubble sheets, you can create a customized answer sheet that can include multiple choice questions, math grids, or open response items such as short answers or essays.

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How Faculty Can ‘Click’ Their Way to a More Inclusive Classroom

Edsurge

What do you think is important for an instructor to do when using classroom response systems (polling software or clickers)? A) Choose questions that most students will be able to answer correctly. B) Vary the types of poll questions beyond multiple choice. Select all that apply. Play with the polls.

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?What Makes a Smart Course ‘Smart’?

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In the early days of "course cartridges”—an LMS feature that allowed instructors to plug published content right into their courses—online courses were essentially digitized versions of static (textbook) content. Yet, while technology exists in the world of higher education, it’s not clear that technology is actually making courses smarter.

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Schools Drop Acellus Learning Platform Over ‘Glaring’ Offensive Content

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The content in question includes a first-grade language arts video lesson that shows an Acellus instructor teaching about the letter “G.” A multiple-choice question asks students to name the terrorist group Osama bin Laden led, and one answer option is “Towelban.” Ooh, it’s a gun,” and removes a silver toy gun.

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Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware

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Top Hat got its start in the “clicker” business, offering a web-based and mobile classroom response tool that lets instructors gauge whether students understood the lesson (or paid attention). The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology.

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