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Would You Rather: Designing with Choice in Mind

Catlin Tucker

A student’s sense of autonomy and agency are enhanced when they are given a choice about how to engage with the content, learning activities, and each other. When I work with teachers, I encourage them to treat their classrooms (physical or virtual) like a laboratory. An Experiment.

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7 programs that are transforming education

eSchool News

Each Transformation Award winner uses online courses and adaptive learning tools to meet the varying needs of their students, who represent different demographic, economic and geographic backgrounds.

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Do Students Learn Better Online or in a Classroom: Statistics

eSchool News

Do students learn better online or in a classroom: statistics help shed light. What is the success rate of online learning? While some research suggests comparable outcomes between online and classroom learning, others indicate differences depending on specific contexts and methodologies.

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Lightboards as a Learning Tool in Adult Asynchronous Online Learning

Faculty Focus

Although Lightboard videos have also been useful in traditional brick-and-mortar settings for students as just in time review after classroom sessions (Schweiker, Griggs, Levonis, 2020), online learning presents a different challenge because the instructor is not available in real-time to answer questions or elaborate on difficult concepts.

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The Administration of a Higher Education Faculty Online Learning Community

Faculty Focus

Sustaining high quality online teaching and learning is best achieved through professional development derived from collegial relationships among online teaching faculty and high touch faculty support provided through an online mentoring model, the Online Learning Community (Pearson & Kirby, 2018).

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Lightboards as a Learning Tool in Adult Asynchronous Online Learning

Faculty Focus

Although Lightboard videos have also been useful in traditional brick-and-mortar settings for students as just in time review after classroom sessions (Schweiker, Griggs, Levonis, 2020), online learning presents a different challenge because the instructor is not available in real-time to answer questions or elaborate on difficult concepts.

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The Administration of a Higher Education Faculty Online Learning Community

Faculty Focus

Sustaining high quality online teaching and learning is best achieved through professional development derived from collegial relationships among online teaching faculty and high touch faculty support provided through an online mentoring model, the Online Learning Community (Pearson & Kirby, 2018).