Faculty & staff updates

The author provides several suggestions for enhancing and creating community in your online classes.

• Seven strategies to promote community in online courses

Experts discuss the need (and student...

Instructional designer, author of ‘Small Teaching Online’ and online instructor, Flower Darby provides practical tips for making online teaching enjoyable such as being present and being yourself in...

Stand-alone undergraduate certificates

Reminder: MU has MDHE approval to offer stand-alone undergraduate certificates. If you already offer a degree-dependent UG certificate and want to offer it as a...

Arizona State University offers a library of virtual, interactive field trips captured during actual scientific expeditions to use as supplemental course material.  

• Arizona State virtual field...

A veteran of online education shares ideas for consideration before creating an online class, including use of technology and instructor participation.

• Seven things to consider before developing...

An experienced faculty member provides methods for getting students to participate more in their own learning that you can easily add to your own teaching and course design.

• Five ways to teach...

Mizzou’s online enrollments still trending up

Mizzou’s distance student population grew another 24 percent in Fall 18. In fact, distance enrollments have grown for five consecutive fall terms.

Fall...

Findings from 2018 EDUCAUSE reports on student and instructor use of educational technologies, including a report specific to the University of Missouri.

• Survey of campus technology use

One...

There are many methods instructors can use to make their online course can feel more personable, and this article offers tips and suggestions in the areas of presence, empathy, and awareness.

• How...

This professor shows how to give balanced feedback and create a comfortable learning environment so students can learn from praise and criticism.

• The need for balanced feedback

Open education...