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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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Enhancing Face-to-Face Education: Leveraging Learning Management Systems for Student Success? 

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In my experience working with face-to-face faculty, I have observed a wide range of usage patterns regarding the Learning Management System (LMS). Faculty were eager to learn out of necessity, and we were thrilled to witness double-digit participation in online trainings that would typically draw only a handful of attendees.

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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For a few years the California State University system has had an unusual requirement for professors who win a grant to redesign their courses: They must post a summary and reflection about their teaching in a public Web collection so others can learn from their experiments. As scholars, we probably should do something like that.

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Enhancing Face-to-Face Education: Leveraging Learning Management Systems for Student Success? 

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In my experience working with face-to-face faculty, I have observed a wide range of usage patterns regarding the Learning Management System (LMS). Faculty were eager to learn out of necessity, and we were thrilled to witness double-digit participation in online trainings that would typically draw only a handful of attendees.

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

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The platform will be built on open-source software and materials that universities have already developed—mainly a combination of Carnegie Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative’s platform, called Torus , and online materials from Arizona State University’s Center for Education Through eXploration, called ETX.

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How College Faculty Can Beat the Cheat

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April Millet, a learning designer at Penn State University, gave educators tips on how to do so last week at the 2018 OLC Accelerate conference in Orlando. Students learn what academic violations are, and what will happen to them if they’re caught. Faculty can also encourage students to learn for the sake of learning, Millet said.

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

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Instead, we foster an environment of learning, growth, and empowerment. Collaborative syllabus design: During the first class, engage students in setting community and classroom norms and goals. A co-created syllabus session fosters accountability and trust, as students feel ownership of the course structure (Cook-Sather et al.,