Seven Tips for Teaching Hybrid Courses
If you’re new to the online teaching experience, especially if you’re considering a hybrid course, here are some tips you might find helpful.
Lori Norin and Tim Wall
January 15, 2009
HIGHER ED TEACHING STRATEGIES FROM MAGNA PUBLICATIONS
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Rethinking Multiple Choice Tests for Assessing Student Learning
If you think multiple choice tests are only good to assess how well students memorized facts, it may be time to rethink your testing strategy. Although they are not appropriate for every situation, when properly developed, multiple choice tests can used to assess higher levels of thinking, including application and analysis.
Mary Bart
January 14, 2009
Lessons Learned from a Bad Online Teaching Experience
A few years ago, our university started accelerating its distance learning program. Some professors designed courses that worked well, while others found that 100 percent
Lori Norin and Tim Wall
January 13, 2009
What You Need to Know When Evaluating Assessment Instruments
MAPP, CAAP, C-BASE, CLA, NSSE, to name just a few. With so many published assessment instruments available, how do you know the best one for assessing student learning at your school?
Mary Bart
January 12, 2009
Top Teaching and Learning Challenges for 2009
EDUCAUSE, the association for information technology in higher education, released its list of Top Teaching and Learning Challenges for 2009. Voted on by the EDUCAUSE teaching and learning community, the top five challenges are:
Mary Bart
January 9, 2009
How to Select the Right Textbook for an Online Course
A good textbook is crucial to an online course. Because so much of an online instructor’s interaction is based largely on e-mail, chat, or online discussion boards and groups, the textbook must provide structure and deliver the course content. Here are some things to consider when evaluating an online course textbook:
Guy Lochiatto
January 8, 2009
Four Tips for Acing Your Accreditation Site Visit
With state and federal governments putting more and more emphasis on assessment and learning outcomes, these new-style accreditation processes can be grueling, to say the least. Here are a few valuable tips to help ensure a successful accreditation visit.
Chuck Wight PhD
January 7, 2009
Annual Survey Provides Snapshot of Online Education
Staying the Course: Online Education in the United States, 2008 reports that higher education institutions believe that the economic changes will have a positive impact on overall college enrollments, with online courses and programs for working adults seeing the greatest interest.
Mary Bart
January 6, 2009
Capstone Courses Prepare Students for Transition to Working World
The lofty goals that capstone courses can accomplish make them worth the effort. We know how important first experiences in college are. We need a greater appreciation of how equally important a final summarizing experience can be.
Rob Kelly
January 2, 2009
Online Teaching Tips to Ensure a Productive New Year
Take a few minutes to consider the following online teaching tips to help you start out the new year revitalized, enthusiastic, eager, and just happy as hell to be teaching online
Errol Craig Sull
January 1, 2009