Travel Tips for Online Instructors
Well, it’s that time again: summertime, and thus more online instructors are on the road and that means your indispensible umbilical cord to the classroom
Errol Craig Sull
August 7, 2009
Online Education
Three Ways to Gauge the Quality of an Online Course
Shortcomings of an online course are not always obvious to the person who created it or teaches it. That is why it is helpful to seek other sources of information to determine whether a course is meeting its objectives. Mary Hricko, library director and associate professor of library and media services at Kent State University Geauga Campus and Twinsburg Center, recommends doing this in the following three ways:
Rob Kelly
July 28, 2009
Online Design: Reaching Students Eight Different Ways
The online learning environment offers great potential for individualized learning. One way to achieve this is through adaptive hypermedia—using learner use patterns to adapt course presentation, navigation, and content to suit individual students’ needs and preferences.
Rob Kelly
July 24, 2009
Eight Tips for Facilitating Effective Online Discussion Forums
At the heart of every online course is the discussion forum. This is where ideas, information, and new material are shared, discussed, analyzed, built upon,
Rebecca Owens
July 23, 2009
Strategies for Preventing and Correcting Poor Faculty Evaluations
Online instructors receive poor evaluations for any number of reasons, including lack of experience, inadequate training, and poor communication skills. Other times, the poor reviews are more reflective of the course design than the instructor who’s teaching the course. That distinction is unimportant to the students.
Mary Bart
July 22, 2009
Web 2.0 Grows Up, Goes to College
It’s not easy to get unanimous agreement on anything these days, but on this most educators can agree:
- An instructor’s personality impacts student learning;
- More is learned in a class than just course content; and
- It can be difficult to show your personality in an online course.
Mary Bart
July 15, 2009
How to Engage Online Students in Meaningful Discussion
Student participation is perhaps the biggest challenge of teaching online courses, says Deborah Raines, professor and director of the Accelerated Second-Degree BSN Program at Florida
Rob Kelly
July 10, 2009
Tips for Establishing a Rapport with Online Students
“There is no personal interaction between student and teacher…the spontaneity of teaching is lost…the only rapport exists in exchanging bits and bytes of info.”
Perhaps you’ve heard someone make this objection to online learning? Or even uttered it yourself?
My answer to this is very simple: hogwash.
Errol Craig Sull
July 9, 2009
Creating an Online Presence for Your Online Students
No one doubts the assertion that online students are more likely to be successful if they feel connected to their instructor and fellow students, but
Rob Kelly
July 1, 2009
Student Engagement Strategies for the Online Classroom
Cognitive engagement is important to student success in any learning environment. However, cognitive engagement takes on more significance in the online learning environment, where students learn in a physically isolated environment and often lack elements that typically engage students in the face-to-face classroom.
Rob Kelly
June 29, 2009
