Posts Tagged ‘Teaching and Learning’
November 6 - Tips for Managing Large Online Classes
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
The following tips from Susan Ko, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Maryland University College, will help you maintain course quality and interaction in large online courses:
October 2 - Effective Strategies for Improving College Teaching and Learning
By: Mary Bart in Free Reports, Teaching & Learning
What we teach and how we teach it are inextricably linked. This special report helps you discover new ways to build strong connections between the two with strategies for engaging students, giving feedback, creating a climate for learning, and more.
August 25 - Eight Ways to Support Faculty Needs with a Virtual Teaching & Learning Center
By: Kathleen MacDonald in Faculty Development
Teaching and learning support professionals, particularly those who must perform miracles as a “Department of One,” can have one of the most challenging jobs on campus. They not only support the course design, content delivery strategies, technology integration, and training/orientation for faculty and students in online learning programs (asynchronous and synchronous formats), but they also support all other teaching/learning needs for classroom, blended, and any other teaching environment. This professional may be an instructional designer, an educational technologist, or very often, a designated faculty member with some or all of these skills.
July 14 - Distance Education Resistance: Understanding Its Origins
By: Christopher Hill in Distance Learning Administration
It’s a fact of life. Distance education proponents have to learn how to live with conflict. Distance education has been controversial from the start and in many ways continues to be so. Elizabeth Mitchell, PhD and Dr. Iris Geva-May, a professor on the Education faculty at Canada’s Simon Fraser University, have studied the resistance to
June 12 - Establishing Online Instructor Performance Best Practices and Expectations
By: Lawrence Ragan, PhD. in Distance Learning Administration
Helping faculty learn to survive and even thrive online is critical if we are to realize the potential of this new learning space. During a Magna online seminar awhile back, I made reference to a strategy that an institution can employ to help faculty save time online. I referred to a document created at Penn
June 8 - Teaching and Learning Award Winners Announced
By: Mary Bart in Teaching and Learning
Congratulations to the winners of the inaugural McGraw-Hill – Magna Publications Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning Award. Announced last week at the sixth annual Teaching Professor Conference, the award recognizes outstanding scholarly articles on teaching and learning, and includes a $1,000 stipend from McGraw-Hill to the authors of the winning article.
June 1 - Retirement Reflections: Things I Will and Won’t Miss After 33 Years of Teaching
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Careers
I am just about to retire from Penn State and leave my faculty position teaching undergraduates. I’ll still be working; there’s this newsletter to edit and a world of faculty who still need advice, ideas, and encouragement to do their very best in the classroom. But you don’t end 33 years of college teaching without thinking about those things that will and won’t be missed on campus.
March 19 - Why Do Students Take Your Course?
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Curriculum Development, Instructional Design
If you ask students what they want to get out of a course, most give the same answer: an A (never mind if learning accompanies the grade). If you rephrase and ask why students are taking your course, those answers are just as enervating: nothing else was open at the time; it’s in the same
March 18 - Classroom Management Issues in Online Courses: Tips on Mitigating Unwanted Behavior
By: Christopher Hill in Effective Classroom Management, Online Education
Problem students can create just as many classroom management issues in the online environment as they can in a traditional classroom, perhaps more. Last week in a live online seminar titled Managing Expectations and Handling Difficult Students Online, Dr. Susan Ko, executive director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Maryland University College, provided strategies for mitigating unwanted behavior in online courses. Below is an excerpt of an interview conducted in advance of the seminar.
January 20 - False Assumptions Beginning Teachers Make
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Faculty Development, Philosophy of Teaching
Lately I’ve been wondering if there’s a set of initial assumptions made about teaching and learning that inhibit instructional growth and development. Here is list of a few of these assumptions, and why I think they make teaching excellence less attainable.
