Top Online Course Design Mistakes
John Orlando
October 21, 2016
Although online education has been around for nearly 20 years, I still see a number of common mistakes among online course developers. Here are the
Although online education has been around for nearly 20 years, I still see a number of common mistakes among online course developers. Here are the
One widespread misconception is that the Internet is a place for people to express malevolence toward one another, but that’s not true. People are generalizing
FERPA is probably the most widely misunderstood law relating to education. I consistently hear faculty and administrators make incorrect claims about FERPA. At one conference,
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One common mistake I see among online content developers is to build videos that simply roll through content from start to finish. This is a
Years of teaching and coaching online faculty have taught me that the move from face-to-face to online teaching brings both benefits and dangers. One benefit
Interview by John OrlandoCurt Bonk is one of the foremost authorities on open resources in higher education. A professor of education at Indiana University, he
It is unfortunate that faculty members often deliberately avoid creating competition in their courses out of fear of damaging student self-esteem or privacy considerations. Competition
Flipped learning has become a hot topic in online education lately. The flipped classroom model moves the act of delivering information to the student in
Despite a faculty member’s best efforts, online discussions often degenerate into students simply taking turns answering the original question rather than genuinely speaking to one
