Faculty & staff updates

Mintz provides several suggestions that add engaging, interactive elements in an online class.

• The future (revisited) of online education

Brydon and Giacomini conducted an extensive comparison of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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Is it beneficial to provide students with course content choices?

• Benefits of giving students choices

Suggested ways to engage students in their online classes.

• Top 5 strategies to increase...

Improvements come from U.S. faculty selecting tech tools for better assessment.

• Unlocking the promise of digital assessment

A mid-Atlantic state continues its work on preventing plagiarism...