In Blended and Flipped Learning, Online Education
March 31, 2014 Barbi Honeycutt PhD and Sarah Glova
We recently asked a group of teaching assistants, “How do you think today’s college classroom is different than when you were an undergraduate student? What is the most significant…
March 28, 2014 Elwin L. Jones and Ronald C. Jones
In the online instructional environment, the discussion questions, posts, and responses are the lifeblood of the course. Although writing formal papers and completing quizzes are typical components of online…
In Effective Teaching Strategies
March 27, 2014 Jane Gee
In my course, the required reading is intensive and extensive. Students must read multiple texts that range across disciplines, genres, history, and culture. The goal of this interdisciplinary course…
Because online courses have fewer opportunities for the spontaneous, real-time exchanges of the face-to-face classroom, online instruction requires a deliberate approach to design and facilitation. As Bethany Simunich says,…
In Effective Teaching Strategies
March 24, 2014 Carolyn Ives
Many instructors will argue that student participation in class is important. But what’s the difference between participation and engagement? What does good participation or engagement look like? How can…
In Philosophy of Teaching, Teaching and Learning
March 21, 2014 James Ricky Cox PhD and Dave Yearwood PhD
Mark Twain once remarked that “All generalizations are false, including this one.” It seems that we are in a time—an educational crossroads of sorts—when teaching is overgeneralized to the…
March 20, 2014 Meredith DeCosta Emily Bergquist and Rick Holbeck
Online teaching is growing at a rapid pace. To meet the increasing demand of online education, many courses have been designed to enable the instructor to be more of…
The longer I teach, the more I see teaching as a highly creative endeavor. Initially, a more mechanical view prevailed for me. In my earlier years as a teacher,…
I would like to be able say of my teaching: this is clearly good; this is clearly not good. I would like to be able to think: I always…
Consideration of convenience and flexibility typically leads instructors and instructional designers to favor asynchronous over synchronous learning. But given the potential benefits of synchronous communication, perhaps it’s time to…
