Student discussions have long been both thorn and rose of online courses. When online learning was first introduced to academia, skeptical face-to-face instructors believed that
An engineer once told me that he needed to teach himself engineering in college. By that he meant that his professors would go through sample
Most higher education institutions have put their classes online for the remainder of the term. Higher education is well positioned to take classes online because
In most disciplines, students learn how to communicate using a mix of text, tables, and figures—how their instructors were taught to communicate. But today, complex
I recently had an instructor ask whether the feedback he was about to provide to a student was too harsh. He said the student’s writing
All communication begins with grabbing your listener’s attention, something that everyone instinctively understands. A marriage proposal does not begin with the speaker opening a PowerPoint
Online faculty have numerous options for creating graphic, video, and website content. But Adobe Spark stands out as a single system that can create all
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
