Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 22, 2016

For example, it’s 5 weeks instead of 3 and it’s graded–read the syllabus first. Pick one and sign up. . MTI562 –similar to The Tech-infused Teacher with a few differences. MTI 563 –How Technology Makes Differentiation Fast and Easy. Q: Do you have any other summer training available? .

Questions 79

Questions Online Learning Learning Syllabus 79

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

It’s not the first time that someone has tried a marketplace for courseware, notes Stephen Downes, a national expert in online learning technology who runs the long-running OLDaily newsletter.

Textbooks 179

Textbooks Syllabus Instructors Peer Review 179

Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2018

Time, staffing, and training on how, exactly, to make course materials compliant were some of the top barriers a group of faculty listed at a session on online learning accessibility last week at the Online Learning Consortium Innovate conference. Chief among those barriers? Simply, awareness.

Accessibility 158

Accessibility Disabilities Instructors Syllabus 158

k12 Online Schools

MAY 12, 2025

Whether its a 60-second TikTok on the French Revolution, a deep-dive YouTube documentary on climate change, or a TED Talk about emotional intelligence, young minds are tuning in and learning, often more effectively than traditional methods ever allowed. This is the hidden curriculum of the internet, which aids online learning.

Online Learning 52

Online Learning Lecturing Learning Textbooks 52

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Consequently, when my colleague David Schejbal invited me to explore library services for today’s online students, I was eager to do so. Include in the conversation a copy of a draft syllabus, required assignments, and any concerns you have about academic integrity. Be open to a discussion of the course you teach or plan to teach.

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Instructors Learning Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2023

While the syllabus, course modules, and a course calendar can provide students with information on progress toward completion of the course, comments and messages from the instructor can demonstrate interest in the student as an individual and encourage continued involvement in the course. Interactive Learning Environments 30, no.

Instructors 105

Instructors Syllabus Assignments Feedback 105

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

Moreover, an instructional designer with administrative privileges, such as senior ID, director, or assistant dean, can work collaboratively with faculty and administration to create important policies and procedures, promote one-stop-shop modalities, and recommend innovative and transformative practices for learning.

Schools 122

Schools Syllabus Authentic Assessment Evaluation 122

Faculty Focus

JUNE 2, 2024

My first and only fully online class taken as an undergraduate student was a complete disaster. Aside from a bare-bones syllabus, the professor never showed up. In my teaching practice, I order content in weekly modules that align directly with the course calendar provided in the syllabus.

Syllabus 131

Syllabus Course Design Learning Students 131

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

While both of these modes of online instruction offer exciting new affordances, far too often online learning is designed in a way that replicates in-person instruction and domesticates technology to fit within traditional teaching practices ( Prestridge, 2022 ). But, it does not have to be this way!

Blended Learning 132

Blended Learning Lecturing Education Learning 132

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2018

This could be as simple as a #syllabus that has a personalized accessibility statement in the beginning, not buried at the end #dlnchat — Phyllis Brodsky (@pebrodsky) May 8, 2018. DLNchat is co-hosted by the Online Learning Consortium , WCET and Tyton Partners.

Accessibility 133

Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Syllabus 133

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

In addition to having these services available in your syllabus and throughout your course, a warm handoff to connect students with these services will likely build trust. DW Wood, MEd, has specialized in online postsecondary course development, teaching, and management for over twenty years. be ready to provide support as appropriate.

Instructors 116

Instructors Students Minute Papers Course Design 116

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

Moreover, an instructional designer with administrative privileges, such as senior ID, director, or assistant dean, can work collaboratively with faculty and administration to create important policies and procedures, promote one-stop-shop modalities, and recommend innovative and transformative practices for learning.

Schools 105

Schools Syllabus Authentic Assessment Evaluation 105

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

When forced to redesign his course, Robertson saw an opportunity to move toward a curriculum that offered more flexibility than his linear syllabus ever could. His choice: modular learning. Robertson notes that redesigning a curriculum using modules allows educators to build a cache of materials a little at a time. What is Course Hero?

Curriculum 156

Curriculum Hybrid Courses Lecturing Gamification 156

Faculty Focus

JUNE 2, 2024

My first and only fully online class taken as an undergraduate student was a complete disaster. Aside from a bare-bones syllabus, the professor never showed up. In my teaching practice, I order content in weekly modules that align directly with the course calendar provided in the syllabus.

Syllabus 110

Syllabus Course Design Learning Students 110

Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

“Asynchronous learning doesn’t allow me to meet the diverse needs of my students.” “I’m If I were a betting woman, I would bet a hefty sum that my colleagues’ perceptions of asynchronous online learning are shared by tens of thousands of college instructors worldwide. How to humanize your online class, version 2.0

Instructors 111

Instructors Disabilities Culture Syllabus 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

In addition to having these services available in your syllabus and throughout your course, a warm handoff to connect students with these services will likely build trust. DW Wood, MEd, has specialized in online postsecondary course development, teaching, and management for over twenty years. be ready to provide support as appropriate.

Instructors 105

Instructors Students Minute Papers Course Design 105

Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

“Asynchronous learning doesn’t allow me to meet the diverse needs of my students.” “I’m If I were a betting woman, I would bet a hefty sum that my colleagues’ perceptions of asynchronous online learning are shared by tens of thousands of college instructors worldwide. How to humanize your online class, version 2.0

Instructors 105

Instructors Disabilities Culture Syllabus 105

Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2018

But how should instructors foster rich, inclusive dialogues with diverse students—and do so online where everyone might be anonymous? At the Online Learning Consortium’s Innovate conference this week, a panel of digital learning specialists shared how they are working to address some of these challenges at their own institutions and beyond.

Instructors 97

Instructors Syllabus Learning Discussions 97

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Course Hero is an online learning platform where you can access course-specific study resources contributed by a community of students and educators. For me, office hours listed on the plaque outside your door or listed on the first page of the syllabus sends the message, “Here are the hours when I want to see you, students.”

Quizzes 167

Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2023

Students are provided proctored test dates and times early in the course so they can plan their schedules to ensure they will be in person (online or classroom) on the scheduled date of the test. If proctored tests are used in the course this should be noted on the course outline (syllabus), as well as within the LMS. link] Martin, F.

Exams 111

Exams Course Design Assignments Learning 111

Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

QR codes can be used to share materials with students and to engage students in active learning activities. They provide a quick way to access a webpage that could be the syllabus, a poll, a list of resources, or a shared online space for a brainstorming activity. Why are professors not using them in their college classrooms?

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Syllabus Students Lecturing 98

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

The syllabus should be available to students at the beginning of the course and available on the course site for students to reference specific grading policies, course expectations, and course outcomes throughout the length of the course. Online Learning, 22(2), 197-220. Journal of Instructional Research , 7 (1). Abu-Moghli, F.,

Learning 111

Learning Syllabus Assignments Communication 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

While both of these modes of online instruction offer exciting new affordances, far too often online learning is designed in a way that replicates in-person instruction and domesticates technology to fit within traditional teaching practices ( Prestridge, 2022 ). But, it does not have to be this way!

Blended Learning 98

Blended Learning Lecturing Education Learning 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

These efforts culminated a meticulously designed course template that is the backbone of the program’s online offerings. The template features an intuitive layout and essential components such as a syllabus, clear assignment guidelines, feedback and grading policies, detailed discussion forums, and links to student support services.

Feedback 122

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 122

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

So then, how to best assess learning and what digital tools can improve assessment? There was some discussion about how to use social media to bring learning into the wider virtual world as described in How a Flipped Syllabus, Twitter and YouTube Made This Professor Teacher of the Year. DLNchat -ters had a lot of ideas.

Assignments 101

Assignments Exams Instructors Learning 101

Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2023

Students are provided proctored test dates and times early in the course so they can plan their schedules to ensure they will be in person (online or classroom) on the scheduled date of the test. If proctored tests are used in the course this should be noted on the course outline (syllabus), as well as within the LMS. link] Martin, F.

Exams 98

Exams Course Design Assignments Learning 98

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

But Rima Al Tawil (2019) demonstrates that there is a variety of ways in which nonverbal cues make their way into online learning, and it is important for instructors to understand these communication influences to monitor and manage the tone of their courses. Instead, they set the tone for the course and motivate students.

Instructors 108

Instructors Communication Syllabus Discussions 108

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

The syllabus should be available to students at the beginning of the course and available on the course site for students to reference specific grading policies, course expectations, and course outcomes throughout the length of the course. Online Learning, 22(2), 197-220. Journal of Instructional Research , 7 (1). Abu-Moghli, F.,

Learning 98

Learning Syllabus Assignments Communication 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

We built our own syllabus, decided what topics interested us and recruited experts to talk to us about those topics. We argued about adaptive-learning technologies or interviewed senior advisors in the Department of Education, and wrote essays asking, “ Do virtual environments hinder democratic participation?

Students 91

Students Syllabus Essay Ethics 91

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

These efforts culminated a meticulously designed course template that is the backbone of the program’s online offerings. The template features an intuitive layout and essential components such as a syllabus, clear assignment guidelines, feedback and grading policies, detailed discussion forums, and links to student support services.

Feedback 111

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

The irony of a Sci Fi loving, former Atari-playing, Gen Xer who learned to type on a word processor that weighed 500 pounds waxing nostalgic for the low-tech olden days is not lost. I embrace progress; I do not want to teach in elbow patches from a dusty syllabus. I’ve stopped trying to make blue books happen.

Plagiarism 116

Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 116

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

The irony of a Sci Fi loving, former Atari-playing, Gen Xer who learned to type on a word processor that weighed 500 pounds waxing nostalgic for the low-tech olden days is not lost. I embrace progress; I do not want to teach in elbow patches from a dusty syllabus. I’ve stopped trying to make blue books happen.

Plagiarism 111

Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 111

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

But Rima Al Tawil (2019) demonstrates that there is a variety of ways in which nonverbal cues make their way into online learning, and it is important for instructors to understand these communication influences to monitor and manage the tone of their courses. Instead, they set the tone for the course and motivate students.

Instructors 95

Instructors Communication Syllabus Discussions 95

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Study.com includes standards alignment in the Collection Details that can be found under the Syllabus tab. This is online learning and as such, without the social engagement (good or bad) that comes hand-in-hand with traditional universities and colleges. Here’s more information on that option. Things to know.

Exams 83

Exams Quizzes Textbooks Syllabus 83

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

Or maybe you’re actually kind of intrigued by this whole online learning thing. Either way, if you think it’s time to improve your online teaching game, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to your summer crash course in online education. Don’t worry, you don’t have to read it all. Key Concepts.

Syllabus 218

Syllabus Lecturing Education Course Design 218

Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Ahearn, an online learning manager for +Acumen, shares eight lessons learned about the field with a starter kit of what every hopeful instructional designer should know. How a Flipped Syllabus, Twitter and YouTube Made This Professor Teacher of the Year How do you win Faculty Member of the Year 13 times in a row?

Syllabus 134

Syllabus Lecturing Assignments Course Design 134

Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2018

When financials are steady and a college doesn’t have a desire to expand its reach beyond a physical campus, is online learning necessary—or even relevant? That was a question posed last week by Janet Russell, director of academic technology for Carleton College, at a session at the Online Learning Consortium’s Innovate conference. “We

Art 102

Art Syllabus Online Learning Feedback 102