As we prepared for the start of Fall semester 2024, there was buzz around our campus about administration raising the caps in our condensed 8-week online courses to match the high enrollment caps for our 16 week in person courses.
Instructors who use a Lightboard to teach difficult concepts to asynchronous online students also bring resident faculty expertise to the online space, non-dependent on the course facilitator.
Faculty in higher education have found themselves with more classes, more students, and overall less time and methods for saving time. Therefore, using time more
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on July 19, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. As instructors, we learn a lot about our students
Online courses can be examined from two perspectives—what students do in the course and how a professor structures the course. There are a variety of
For those of us who continue to teach asynchronous online courses during the 2021-2022 academic year, it’s worth considering how we motivate our students. Reasonably
The importance of well-crafted, thoughtful text to effective online course design can’t be overstated. Assuming your learners are literate, it’s simply the most efficient way
Visual arts is not just a subject, it is a way of life. It embodies the way we dress, the hair styles we flaunt, the
Designing a course can be daunting. Do you get an instructional designer involved? Do you incorporate backward design or even a hybrid approach? Is there
One of the key elements to teaching online is effective communication between teacher and student. We would like to think that our communications are the
