Numerous studies have demonstrated the benefits of providing voice feedback on student work. Phil Ice did one of the first studies of voice feedback, comparing
“Good job”
“Vague”
“Grammar”
Do they look familiar? Students are used to getting the bulk of their feedback as these sorts of “margin comments” running
One of the best ways to build rapport with students is through a video welcome or bio. Videos capture our attention. Videos also humanize us
Social media fundamentally transformed the web by making everyone a content producer. But this move from web 1.0 to 2.0 also exploded the number of
Group activities are an excellent way to improve student learning in an online course. But they invariably raise the free-rider problem—the student who does not
Most faculty require students to present the results of their research and thinking in text form—the ubiquitous “paper” assignment. But in the real world, information
The famous baseball player Cal Ripkin Jr. was known to hit 500 balls in practice per day. If he was working on the traditional model
Many years ago, a higher-education publication ran a commentary from a faculty member who complained that students were bored by her lectures because she was
The Learning Management System (LMS) was developed to allow faculty to create online courses without having to learn HTML. It provided even the least technologically
Group work is a valuable learning device that teaches teamwork skills which students will use no matter what profession they enter. It is perhaps even
