Pedagogical Practice
From Pedagogical Repository
Note: Alphabetized by Key Phrases
Course Content
- Use Advance Organizers to present a course/module framework
- Chunking your course to sizable content
- Create Modules to Organize and Present Content and Learning Activities
- Include FERPA Statements in course documents
- Use images with the considerations of accessibility and copyright to illustrate online course content
- Relate course goals into one or more measurable Learning Objectives for each unit/module/week of your course
- Use a Course Orientation Module or Getting Started Module as an orientation to your online course
- Use Screencasts to provide students tutorials or to explain harder to grasp concepts.
- Use Campus Learning Management System (LMS) Team Information to provide students with contact information for your school's online learning support team.
- Use a Learning Management System Orientation to provide students guidance with the learning management system used for the course.
Interaction
- Use Blogs to communicate with students
- Student Generated Blogs for journals and reflection
- Use Discussion Prompts to facilitate discussions
- Setting Discussion Expectations to support students
- Facilitate discussions to promote interaction and critical thinking
- Discussion Strategies for Large-size Classes
- Select a Discussion Facilitator to diversify discussions
- Use Group Discussion Strategy to facilitate group work
- Keep students engaged/successful with Intervention messages
- Use Mobile Learning components to increase access to your course and interactivity with your students.
- Facilitate Peer and Professor Feedback using collaborative social media technologies
- Use Social Bookmarking to organize and share online resources
- Use Social Networking tools to share with students brief supplemental content links and status updates related to course work
- Use Social Networking tools to engage students in extended professional networks
- Assessing authentic learning with student-generated Social Videos
- Use Three-before-me as a communication strategy in a large class
- Send a Welcome Message to students before the class begins
- Use wikis to facilitate group projects
- Use wikis to scaffold learning
Assessment
- Cheating Reduction Strategies
- Collect student feedback using Course Evaluations
- Use Group Evaluation to assess group work
- Use Rubrics to evaluate students' online discussions
- Use Self Tests to guide and motivate students' learning
- Use Syllabus Quiz to familiarize students with course policies and expectations
