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How to Make Online Learning More Engaging and Effective for Students

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For many families, online learning opened the door to new possibilities in education. Of course, supporting your young learner in an online setting comes with its own challenges. There are proven tools, techniques, and activities that can enhance the engagement and effectiveness of online learning for students.

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How Can Online Instructors Get Students to Talk to Each Other?

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Dear Bonni: How can we make student-to-student interaction more personable and engaging in online learning? Andrea Fuentes, Director of Online Learning, Doral College Cultivating an engaging environment can be a challenge when teaching online. three specific ways they could apply the learning in their lives.

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Brightspace Excellence Awards highlight innovation in online learning

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This year’s Brightspace Excellence Awards , announced at FUSION 2016 by global learning technology provider D2L, recognized the promise of online learning and its ability to connect more and more people to high-quality educational programs. Rochester Institute of Technology : Sandra Connelly, Instructor.

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Startup Hopes to Shake Up Textbook Market By Encouraging a Mix-and-Match of Courseware

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It’s solution: Create a new marketplace where instructors can find them. Namely, it wants to help build an open-source system that lets professors piece together online course materials from a variety of sources, and also offer their own materials for sale to colleagues around the world. A key premise of the Lexington, Mass.-based

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Learning Out Loud: Make Online Courses Meaningful and Accessible

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It fuels human connection when students learn in physical isolation from one another and reduces the likelihood of hurt feelings that result when written exchanges are misunderstood. Instructor video feedback has also been shown to improve social presence, which is correlated with the development of an instructor-student relationship.

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Maximizing Student Engagement During Live Online Seminars

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There are many approaches to designing an online course, and finding the right balance may depend on a variety of factors ranging from content topics to types of assessments. However, to determine if our assessment was correct, we surveyed virtual instructors and students gathering both quantitative data and qualitative data.

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind Debunked: Humanizing Asynchronous Online Courses Using an Inclusive Survey

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Today, many of my colleagues who remain wedded to the traditional face-to-face teaching modality share some of the same fears I experienced as a beginning online asynchronous instructor. Asynchronous learning doesn’t allow me to meet the diverse needs of my students.” “I’m ‘old-school,’ and I need to see my students on campus.”