August 2019: Teaching and learning online

Personal, funny, or motivational videos sent from an instructor at the right time can help foster authenticity, creativity, and community in an online course.

This online instructor shares insight into how she ended up with a flexible approach to grading late work.

Many laptops, tablets, and phones have a talk-to-text feature that can be accessed within the learning management system to cut down on time spent typing comments while grading.

A group of professors share several alternatives to traditional multiple-choice testing that could have many benefits to students and learning.  

Using Turnitin allows this instructor to identify what students don’t understand and “address plagiarism without it being a punitive moment.”