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Description While students may express a desire for more student-centered collaboration in the discussions, they may not fully understand the responsibility required to achieve it (Kanuka et al., 2007). Along with a thoughtful discussion prompt, facilitation during the discussion is often necessary to support students to engage in critical discourse (DeSmet et al., 2008; Maurino…

Peer review of assignments encourages social cohesion among students, promotes a better understanding of course material, and develops soft skills. In the most recent National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) report, employers are most commonly seeking recent graduates who demonstrate the ability to problem solve and who effectively work on a team (Gray, 2024). Peer review assignments can help students practice these skills. Teaching students to provide quality feedback on peer assignments also allows instructors more direct student engagement opportunities since grading time is reduced (Hattie, 2022). This technique can be adopted for courses in any discipline and provides excellent practice for students to apply their knowledge of core concepts.

This strategy is designed to enhance students’ awareness of multiple intersecting identities that they have. It can be used for fostering inclusion and promote diversity in a classroom. It encourages students to accept others and work with others with respect.

Instructor Self-Assessment Journal (ISAJ) aims to create a positive learning environment that is necessary for student success. Our proposed Instructor Self-Assessment Journal aims to boost Positive Student Perceptions.

A course shell is a modifiable template with consistent structure and navigation, used as a starting point when creating a course in an LMS, and is developed by instructional design experts.

Kick off an online course with an asynchronous goal-setting icebreaker where students can form community and intentional goals for the course. This activity can be extended with goal progress check-ins throughout the semester for continued engagement.

Online/blended learning pedagogical practices are organized into three categories: Course Content, Interaction and Assessment. Interaction is crucial in creating an engaging and effective online learning environment. It helps bridge the gap between the digital environment and the traditional classroom, making learning more accessible, interactive, and effective. Check out our articles on strategies for improving interaction…

VoiceThread, a cloud-based platform, is used to assess and provide feedback in an online asynchronous pronunciation course for adult English Language Learners (ELLs). As an interactive collaboration tool, VoiceThread allows for an online classroom where students and instructors can see and hear each other via recordings.  Using VoiceThread in this online asynchronous pronunciation class students…

Description Developing oral communication skills is included as a learning objective for many general education programs and courses, however, implementation and assessment of such skills varies by course and instructor (Sapia et al., 2020).  Different forms of oral communication are incorporated into online introductory or upper-level courses. These include synchronous discussions as well as more…

Statistics is a word that usually brings intimidation to many seasoned educators who find themselves in a doctoral program as graduate students and have not done math in years.  “The trouble with numbers is that they frighten a lot of people” (Leslie W. Rodger, as quoted in Diamantopoulos, Schlegelmilch, & Halkias, p. xxi, 2023).  Diamantopoulos,…