Online Teaching and Learning

Can New Technologies Increase Interaction in Online Education?

There are three types of interaction in online courses: learner-to-content, learner-to-instructor, and learner-to-learner. Each contributes to student retention and motivation. This article elaborates on these types of interaction and suggests which technologies can facilitate each type of interaction.

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Quality Feedback in Less Time

Despite the ever-growing body of evidence that unequivocally supports the need for clear, detailed, timely feedback in response to students’ work, the practical demands of the online classroom leave me struggling to translate pedagogical knowledge into practice. Let’s face it: there is a LOT of

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Online Learning 2.0: Easy Animation for Teaching

A teacher must grab the student’s attention right away to motivate the learning, and nothing grabs interest as quickly and easily as animation. It may sound exotic, but new (and cheap) software has made animation simple to produce.

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Promoting Academic Integrity in the Online Classroom

Teddi Fishman, director of the International Center for Academic Integrity at Clemson University, advocates an instructional design/community-building approach to academic integrity rather than an adversarial approach. Her stint as a police officer informs this stance. As radar gun companies introduced improved speed enforcement tools, the

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Online Learning 2.0: Turn Your Students into Teachers

Education has traditionally gone from teacher to student. This is partly a leftover from the age when the university was a vault of information not available elsewhere. Teachers were truly walking repositories of knowledge. But all that has changed. Now, nearly everything I teach is

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