Most faculty assume that students would welcome any use of social media in a course. After all, social media use is ubiquitous among students outside
When I was asked to create an online course 20 years ago, I simply transcribed my face-to-face lectures into 10–15 page Word documents that I
It is no secret that the cost of textbooks has skyrocketed over the past years, with students spending on average around a thousand dollars a
As instructors, we often assume that students must learn from us and no others. But feedback on performance is one of the most important factors
Most faculty think of studying as a solitary activity, especially in an online environment where students cannot simply set a time to meet in the
Rebecca Yvonne Bayeck and Jinhee Choi of Pennsylvania State University recently did an interesting study examining how MOOC videos convey messages about culture and power
Student engagement has become a focus of higher education— online education in particular— over the past few years. The wide range of interactive methods now
As faculty we often chalk up a student’s poor performance to lack of motivation or ability. But often it is due to a failure to
Last month we covered the many uses of virtual reality in education. This month we look at how educators are using augmented and mixed reality.
The terms “virtual,” “augmented,” and “mixed” reality have been thrown around a lot lately in education, leaving many instructors understandably perplexed over their different meanings.
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