Tips from the Pros: Innovative Ways to Engage Online Learners

Last year my dean informed me that I needed to offer our public speaking course online. This was not a course that naturally lent itself to an online format. In fact, I could not think of a course more poorly suited for an online format . . . how would students have a “public” in which to speak?

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