Whereas an advantage of online education for students is the flexibility to schedule their own time for their studies, there is still a place for
When faculty see students missing information from a reading, they generally assume that the student did not read the article carefully. However, it might be
This past November, all subscribers to The New York Times received a Google Cardboard Virtual Reality Viewer in the mail. Puzzled looks quickly turned to
Student portfolios have become popular in higher education due to their variety of uses. They can document a student process, such as how an engineering
Discussion is a critical component of any online course, but instructors are often puzzled about what makes some discussions lively and others dead. To fill
One of the most common mistakes I see among online faculty is to misuse questions under the guide of teaching by “Socratic dialogue.” Faculty will
Screencasting is one of the most important tools in my inventory as an online teacher. I am constantly making screencast tutorials to teach students processes,
Online faculty often assume that all student collaboration should go through the LMS discussion board, but there are other methods of hosting discussion. Yanyan Sun
Hundreds of studies have demonstrated that there is no significant difference in learning outcomes between online and face-to-face courses. But many students still report having
Student discussion differentiates online education from the old correspondence courses. But there are still many questions to answer in order to facilitate good discussion online.
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