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

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This past semester, each student submitted reading notes as an assignment in the LMS. one question they had for others who read the same chapter. The only thing that was cumbersome on my end was grading student participation since there wasn’t a way to include scores within the peer review framework on Canvas.

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

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A few repositories like the Open Syllabus Project collect syllabi from around the world. And professors have other ways to share their classroom tips: Publishing research about their teaching in peer-reviewed scholarly journals. And some professors share their teaching tips informally on blogs like ProfHacker.

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

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So I tell students, ’Don't read chapter 9, follow this link and read this part that I’ve written, and then follow this link to this quiz that I wrote and then go watch this video at Colorado State University,’” said Feldstein.

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

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What’s it like going from one course that simply posts a syllabus in the LMS to another that makes more robust use of the tools and features? Clear labels and categories make navigation easy, and having everything accessible, especially the syllabus, lecture materials, and study guides, was a recurring preference. 

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

Faculty Focus

What’s it like going from one course that simply posts a syllabus in the LMS to another that makes more robust use of the tools and features? Clear labels and categories make navigation easy, and having everything accessible, especially the syllabus, lecture materials, and study guides, was a recurring preference. 

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OER is Full of Errors: I’m Okay With It

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Many OER providers trust in a peer review system to help eliminate publishing costs. Next, the student must review the error with me–this step is where the magic happens. Broadening Student Communication Before using an OER textbook, students rarely visited me to inform me they did not understand the reading.

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How an OER Rookie Dove Deep Into a Zero-Cost Textbook Degree Program

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Previously, her syllabus relied on a series of pamphlets from the Water Education Foundation, a California-based non-profit. Some, Anagnoson says, did “not read at a deep level for students,” and others “assumed a lot of prior knowledge.” Anagnoson says she considered using OER before her course was lumped into the Z-degree.

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