In a former job as a program director for two online master’s degrees, I was required to write a weekly blog post for students on
Experience shows that online courses naturally lend themselves to more self-disclosure on the part of faculty and students than face-to-face courses do, possibly due to
The LMS discussion forum was once the only real option for hosting discussion in an online course. But today there are a variety of options,
At heart, teaching is about explaining something in a way that another understands. But it’s easy to forget this simple fact and fall into a
Millions of years of human evolution have molded our minds to learn through sight and sound, as written language is a relatively new means of
Developed in the corporate training sector, microlearning is drawing attention from higher education as an alternative to traditional courses. As the name suggestions, microlearning involves
Students claim to be overwhelmed with additional work during the 2020–2021 teaching year, while faculty say that they are assigning no more work than usual
Feedback has been proven to be one of the most important factors to student success (Hattie, 2009). Unfortunately, students are starved for feedback from their
The first thing that nearly all NFL players do the day after a game is watch film of their performance. Video provides an outside perspective
One of the hallmarks of online learning is that students can engage in deeper discussion than they can in most face-to-face courses due to the
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