Open education resources (OER) are gathering more and more interest in higher education as the high cost of textbooks has led a significant percentage of
One failure of the traditional face-to-face lecture is that it delivers learning content in large blocks—that is, in lengthy classes of normally 50–75 minutes. As
It is often said that much, if not most, of communication comes not in what we say but in how we say it. We might
Long ago I learned that the best way to tour a city is by bike. A car isolates a tourist from a city, while a
It is widely assumed among faculty that students reward easy grades with good evaluations, which then becomes reason to dismiss student evaluations as unreliable. But
A host of studies have shown that feedback is one of the most important elements of learning (e.g., Hattie, 2009; Wiggins, 2012). These studies also
When a new movie comes out, people often watch the trailer to decide whether they want to see it. Similarly, our eyes are immediately drawn
It is well-known that reflection is a key to learning and retention. Our minds are not computer programs that can simply download information with complete
One of the challenges that an online program faces is how to keep courses up-to-date. Links break, articles become outdated, new material appears, and so
There is an unfortunate tendency among higher education publications to measure the quality of online education by surveying faculty on whether they think online education
