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Flower Darby discusses why she adapted Small Teaching by James Lang for online teaching and provides examples of how small changes can make a big impact.

• 'Small Teaching Online'

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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...

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...

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

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

• Ideas for creating an effective syllabus for online learning

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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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The University of Pennsylvania introduces a new digital simulation platform, allowing experiential learning based on cases and lectures.

• Real world experiences in a game-like setting

The writer...