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Teaching Strategies

Find teaching inspiration and practical methods to keep your students engaged and learning.

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What to Consider When Planning Assessments in Online Courses

In many respects, teaching online bears many similarities to a traditional on-campus course. You need to deliver your course content, create assignments that build student learning, and design assessments that measure student...
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Tips for Student Success in an Online Course

Online learning may appeal to students for any number of reasons: the convenience of anytime, anywhere learning; the flexible and self-paced nature of many courses; and the asynchronous type of discussions that...
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Assignments in the Online Course: How Much is Too Much?

Guest Contributor: Robert Onorato Given the seemingly unlimited, media-rich learning opportunities you can offer in an asynchronous online course, it may be tempting to craft a reading or resource list as extensive...
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Promoting Student Civility: Online and Offline

tudent civility may seem like a common-sense issue for students to work out on their own, but encouraging professionalism with simple rules for respect and consideration for student interactions online and...
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Helping Online Learners Assess Potential Distractions

Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou can help reduce distractions so students can stay focused on your presentations. However, a unique set of potential distractions awaits the online learner. Despite their best efforts to concentrate fully during...
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Creating Online Activities that Align to Your Outcomes

As an instructor, you’ve probably seen (or employed) many of the exciting — and research-based — techniques and principles you can use to engage and motivate students in the online environment. However, you...
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Challenging to Champion: Working with Difficult Online Students

Author Shawn Orr, Adrian College I’ve had the privilege of teaching thousands of enthusiastic, motivated, successful online students. I’ve also had the frustration of working with online students that display what I...
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Clearly Communicating Information About Your Online Course

When you’re teaching online, it’s essential for students to become comfortable with the setup of your course’s Learning Management System (LMS). Though you may go about communicating this information via different means...
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