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Content tagged: building student engagement

Humor in Online Classrooms: New Ways to Learn and Laugh

Article: Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Humor, whether in the form of jokes, riddles, puns, funny stories, humorous comments or other humorous items, builds a bond between the instructor and students; bridging the student-teacher gap by ... Read full story »

Good Teaching: The Top 10 Requirements

Article: Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

One. Good teaching is as much about passion as it is about reason. It’s about motivating students not only to learn, but teaching them how to learn, and doing so ... Read full story »

Teaching & Learning Rhythms: Tools to Enhance Student Engagement

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Effective Teaching Strategies: Managing the Ebb and Flow Teaching & Learning Rhythms: Tools to Enhance Student Engagement Teaching is, in many ... Learn more »

Back to School Tools: A Shopping List for Faculty

Article: Monday, August 2nd, 2010

As the fall semester approaches, it’s time to restock my classroom teaching supplies. It occurred to me that other faculty might find useful these inexpensive tools that I regularly use ... Read full story »

Twitter in the College Classroom: Engaging Students 140 Characters at a Time

Article: Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

If it seems like everyone is tweeting these days, it’s not just your imagination. In 2007 Twitter users, as a whole, made about 5,000 tweets a day. By 2008 the ... Read full story »

Using Digital Media in Online Courses

Article: Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Editor’s Note: The following post is the second in a two-part series on how to personalize your online course. See part one here. Sometimes content delivered in a traditional classroom ... Read full story »

Student Engagement: Trade-offs and Payoffs

Article: Thursday, June 17th, 2010

I dread the moments when I look out into a classroom and see a collection of blank stares or thumbs clicking on tiny keypads: a pool of disengaged students, despite ... Read full story »

Teach More Effectively with Customizing Learning Experiences

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Teach Online? Get this road map to online course development Teach More Effectively with Customizing Learning Experiences Expectations are rising in higher ed. There’s a growing emphasis on outcomes and ... Learn more »

Using VoiceThread to Build Student Engagement

Article: Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Online educators have long known that asynchronous discussion is deeper than face-to-face discussion due to the increased thought time and the “democratization” of the classroom. But one major disadvantage ... Read full story »

Three Strategies for Engaging Students through Multimodal Course Design

Article: Friday, April 9th, 2010

Like many new online instructors, Laurie Lorence, an English instructor at San Diego Community College, initially created online courses that were fairly linear and mostly text. She quickly realized that ... Read full story »

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