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How Online Instructors Can Avoid ‘Burnout’

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Rebecca Stout remembers the time she got a call from Saudi Arabia at midnight from one of her online students looking for help on an assignment. It was just one example of how she—and many online instructors—feel like they must be always on call when they teach an online course. And then all the sudden we’re teaching online.

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Strategies for Increasing Instructor Presence

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As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. I assumed that students would come to me when they were experiencing difficulty with course materials or going through unexpected life events which influenced course performance. It may even be that the student is simply shy.

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Strategies for Increasing Instructor Presence

Faculty Focus

As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. I assumed that students would come to me when they were experiencing difficulty with course materials or going through unexpected life events which influenced course performance. It may even be that the student is simply shy.

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How CTE supports college and career readiness

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For students to be truly prepared for their futures, they need academic knowledge, technical expertise, and workforce skills that translate directly into the workplace. According to ACTE’s College and Career Readiness report ,students who completeCTE programs are more likely to meet these readiness benchmarks.

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How to Motivate Students to Actually Do Homework and Reading

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The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. Reader Question: Dear Bonni, What ideas do you have for student accountability? How do we get students to do pre-class work without giving a grade to everything? You can pose a question for a future column here.

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How Students Use Unofficial Online Backchannels for Classes

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As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. Students increasingly turn to private systems to create online groups around individual college classes.

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As Student Engagement Falls, Colleges Wonder: ‘Are We Part of the Problem?’

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As the pandemic progresses, professors are sharing stories about what feels to them like widespread student disengagement. In their anecdotes, fewer students are showing up to class and turning work in on time (or at all). But declining student participation may also stem from the challenges inherent to remote and hybrid learning.