Encourage Metacognitive Learning by Visualizing Objectives
Good course design involves alignment of course and lesson objectives with relevant activities and assessments.
Preparing Students to Facilitate a Webinar
Description Today’s technological environment requires practical skills in online competencies; one of these skills is webinar facilitation. Facilitation is a useful skill to support group in meeting an objective, making a decision, or collaborating more effectively. Facilitation is also the teaching strategy that can be selected for assignments in order to: (1) model for students…
Scaffold Student Success in Online Learning through Metacognitive Prompting and Reflective Journaling
Students who can self-regulate are more likely to succeed online, and that instructors can offer supports to help students self-regulate better.
Implement Open Educational Resources
For faculty, the practice of utilizing OER saves significant time in the individual design, development and writing of content for courses.
Create Accessible Narrated PowerPoint for Content Delivery Online
There are two options currently available to improve accessibility of these PowerPoints:
Assign Six Word Memoirs for Reflection and Synthesis
Similar to the six-word story from the flash fiction genre, the Six-Word Memoir is a writing genre for telling a personal story in six-words. In popular culture, it has become a global movement now featured in the book Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs: by Writers Famous and Obscure, on [in the US]…
Create Screencasts to Present Content and Focus Attention
Screencasting refers to as a digitally recorded playback of computer screen output which often contains audio narration (Udell, 2005).
Use Excel-based Simulations to Improve Online Student Understanding of Deterministic Financial Models
Description Numerous studies have found that students who use simulations to learn concepts then subsequently demonstrate higher test scores than students using traditional lecture and discussions to cover the same material. Thus, the research indicates that online students could benefit from properly designed simulations (Porter, 2004). Individual instructors have two basic choices for obtaining simulations:…
Apply Motivational Design Principles to Create Engaging Online Modules
When developing asynchronous modules, using a motivational design model and appropriate technologies allows one to replicate a dynamic, active learning classroom environment.
Use Word Clouds to Enhance Critical Thinking
One of the major goals of higher education is to cultivate students’ critical thinking skills (Roth, 2010). In order to be prepared for the workplace and to be an informed citizen, students need to be able to base judgments, make decisions, and solve problems based on the careful critique of available evidence. Engagement, defined as…