Faculty & staff updates

The SUNY system shares their experience instilling digital accessibility with many helpful links to resources from other institutions and from EDUCAUSE.

• Building a culture of accessibility in...

An experienced online educator provides research-based methods to create community in online courses.

• Five ways to build community in online classrooms

Many institutions are supplementing or...

An experienced online instructor shares how structure and effective communication all starts with the syllabus.

• Ideas for creating an effective syllabus for online learning

This article provides...

This article explains the benefits of using video feedback and provides recommendations for instructors.  

• How giving students feedback through video instead of text can foster better understanding...

Revenue share update

Revenue is shared for distance-student-generated tuition in any class regardless of the location code of the class. Effective fiscal year 18-19, the revenue will be divided: 60%...

An online educator shares his experience on reaching students and keeping them engaged with humor in a digital environment.

• Working the online crowd: Humor and teaching with tech

Seasoned online...

Instructional strategies to help students better comprehend text-based information in their online courses.

• Schemata and instructional strategies

Wakelet is a free app for organizing online...

Insightful tips to get more meaningful dialogue from online discussion forums.

• How to deepen online dialogue

This course offers online, nanotechnology students a way to participate in the lab.

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Professors at MIT are utilizing immersive reality and other media to better present case studies to business students.

• At MIT, it's out with the old case studies, in with immersive ones

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A technology writer identifies 10 trends to watch for as eLearning gains more traction in business and higher education in 2018.

• 10 eLearning trends that promise to make 2018 a powerful year for...