As the number of universities offering fully online-only courses increases, a new set of challenges arises for students and professors.
Using Likert-type items in qualitative research is both common and a topic of debate among researchers.
Connecting with students is a step towards increasing engagement in the classroom—whether face-to-face or online.
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.
It is often said that much, if not most, of communication comes not in what we say but in how we say it. We might say something that sounds angry, but our facial expression demonstrates that we are joking.
Online learning continues to grow and evolve. In fact, in the fall of 2022, there were 18,580,026 adult learners participating in distance education (National Center
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“If you build it, they will come,” held true for the 1989 movie Field of Dreams but does not necessarily apply to online courses and
Why do TED Talks captivate us so consistently? TED Talks captivate us because their speakers apply fundamental principles of communication that, I believe, 99% of
The best way I can describe my very first semester of teaching online asynchronously is “emotionally agonizing.” Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most