Enhancing Your Online Course for Your Unique Student Population
Enhancement is a critical component of an online course’s life cycle. Just as you must maintain a car or home over time, it’s important that you come back to your…
Adam Shaw
Scaffolding Learning in the Online Classroom
The online student population is becoming increasingly complex. Although people typically think of online students as older working professionals, Clinefelter, Aslanian, and Magda (2019) note that this population is beginning…
Authentic Assessment in the Online Classroom
Assessment is a critical component of the online classroom. It provides students with an idea of their progress in a course, identifies individual strengths and weaknesses, and ultimately serves as…
5 Questions to Ask Before Gamifying Your Online Course
Online education is a dynamic and exciting field. From advanced approaches to instruction to multimedia use in the online classroom, the ways in which online learning has evolved require instructors,…
Tips for Designing Live Sessions
As we discussed in our article “Asynchronous vs. Synchronous Communication in the Online Classroom,” online students tend to favor asynchronous communication over synchronous elements. Asynchronous communication typically fits online students’…
It’s Not Just About Curriculum: Programmatic Best Practices for Healthy Academic Programs
It’s no secret that higher education is changing and that the way students are consuming education is evolving along with it. With that in mind, academic programs have become much…