Most higher education institutions are not organized to encourage, support, and reward collaboration. Yet, collaboration—across disciplines, functional units, institutions, and organizations—is a highly effective way of dealing with complex issues….
…energies in a more productive and appropriate way. This last example is becoming more and more common. In some ways, institutions have not made their workings, their expectations, or their…
…synchronous classes. I think that there’s a community piece to it just knowing that we’re all getting together at the same time. I like having those points where I come…
…instructions to facilitate online communication. Each group has a collaborative workspace within the online course. Students have technology skills relevant for asynchronous communication. Back-up procedures are in place to deal…
…that a student is actually being disruptive online, since online communications can be ambiguous and one always wants to give students the benefit of the doubt. In those cases in…
Congratulations! You’ve accepted a position as a professor, instructor, or lecturer. Now comes the hard part. Unless you have spent your professional career studying curriculum, instruction, assessment, online learning, classroom…
…and computers in the past ten years should be enough to guide us in what we should be doing. YouTube tells us we can create videos and share them with…
…lower-level material (knowledge and comprehension questions). When exams become the only means to assess learning, a teacher becomes a carpenter with only a hammer: all problems start to seem like…
