…feel as if they need to overload every interaction with course content, the online classroom requires instructors to develop and implement a comprehensive communication strategy—something separate from content and grounded…
…some activity that forces them to think about and comment on the information presented.” Put another way, active learning is “any learning activity engaged in by students in a classroom…
One-minute papers have deservedly become one of the more common classroom activities deployed by teachers. This is consistent with Lang’s (2016a) perspective that “frequent low-stakes writing assignments constitute one of…
…participation becomes a critical component of learning and assessment. In some courses the participation component of a final grade can be 20% or more. And yet, educators often fail to…
I truly love being an online facilitator, but it can lend itself to more frequent communication gaps because everyone is virtual. Online communication can be easily misinterpreted or unintentionally lead…
…lockdown browsers because students can demonstrate their learning in a variety of meaningful ways. Frequent feedback and communication: Provide feedback that helps learners improve their learning. Make sure students are…
…completed the survey the day they received it, I knew it was not going to give me the expected sample size I needed; I needed to come up with a…
…frequently unspoken. Thus, faculty navigate a desire to know their students and for students to value their course. This is often communicated in quietly received monologues through syllabus review, grading,…
