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Apply the DEAL Model of Critical Reflection to Maximize Learning in Blogs

July 19, 2023
Student learning is more impactful when meaningful reflection is integrated into course design (e.g., Lee & Sabatino, 1998).  Providing students with the opportunity to think about their learning experiences and articulate connections to their personal, professional and academic goals can help them better prepare for career success and lifelong learning (e.g., Rolfe, Jasper, & Freshwater,…

Use Shared Templates to Enhance Collaborative Online Learning and Skill Building

July 3, 2023
Online learning activities using shared documents to promote collaborative work is one approach that may facilitate student engagement and learning. By creating shared templates for students to complete in groups, students collaborate with classmates to apply learning and ultimately contribute to a shared outcome. While a great deal of academic work is produced independently, this…

Personalized Learning Design with Canvas MasteryPaths

July 6, 2021
Learning content is often presented to students in a variety of ways throughout an online or blended course, but this doesn’t necessarily always translate into them doing equally well on their assignments and assessments (Kizilcec & Halawa, 2015). For example, some students may skip a required reading, but watch a video, or may simply go…

Using Collaborative Exams to Reinforce and Deepen Learning

June 24, 2021
Shifting the passive classroom environment of a faculty lecturing and students note-taking to an interactive engaging learning environment has exposed many students to using polling such as clicker technology or online polling software.  In addition, many faculty have engaged Dr. Eric Mazur’s technique of polling (Lambert, 2012) which poses questions for students to answer independently…

About TOPR

July 23, 2024
The Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR) is an invaluable open resource for faculty and instructional designers dedicated to enhancing online and blended teaching strategies. Although TOPR is currently operated from the University of Central Florida, TOPR serves as a comprehensive repository that showcases a wide range of teaching strategies, each meticulously drawn from the real-world…

Adapting the Canvas Quiz to Practice Verbal Communication

July 10, 2024
With more higher education experiences moving online, students have fewer opportunities to practice their verbal communication skills compared to traditional face-to-face environments. Speeches, presentations, and recitations that students might engage in within a traditional brick and mortar classroom may be less feasible online, and students also miss out on the typical questioning, conversation, and interaction…