Have you or your program conducted and completed the analysis steps? Then, you are ready to begin the Backwards Design process for creating your course and developing learning goals, objectives, and ...

Online courses, open educational resources (OER) and virtual schools are all the rage nowadays. Christine Voelker teaches other teachers how to build their own online courses. She’s the K–12 program ...

Most edtech conversations often focus on “tech”—the new apps, data systems, assessments and other technologies. But the “ed” discussions—particularly the art of teaching with these tools—are often ...

Mary Chayko, a professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University (NJ), has taught both hybrid and fully online courses for several years. In 2014, as she was designing a ...

Rapid OnLine Learning (ROLL) involves the quick transfer of an on-the-ground course to a fully online environment. ROLL is not the same as planning ahead of time for online course development. Rather, ...

It is easy to view the task of drafting learning objectives as a mere administrative hurdle—one more box to check for a syllabus or a department review. However, when we move beyond the "paperwork" ...

Peer mentoring is an effective way to support faculty in the development and delivery of quality online courses. Jonathan Muir explains when and how best to use it Since the first online degree course ...

To recognize faculty and/or staff members who demonstrate course development and pedagogical excellence as the instructor of a course. These awards recognize professional accomplishment and promote ...

While university instructors around the world scramble to implement delivery of their courses online — a medium with which they may have only limited experience — they can learn from the field notes ...

“Embrace” is probably too strong. “Acquiescence” suggests too much passivity. Whatever word you choose, though, the data indicate that American faculty members -- whether grudgingly or ...