Online Strategies: ideas to implement in your online classroom
- 11 Strategies for Managing Your Online Courses: created to help online instructors tackle many of the course management issues that can erode the efficiency and effectiveness of an online course.
- 15 Strategies for Engaging Online Students: specific strategies are discussed.
- Collaborative Creation: Challenges & Logistics of Launching a Fully Online Graduate Writing Program: Online Learning Consortium 2014 Annual Conference. Orlando, Florida. Collaborating with program directors in launching a fully online graduate writing program. Read more about the Online Learning Annual Conference 2014 at my blog posts below.
- OLA in FLA @ Disney World
- Online Learning at the Swan & Dolphin
- Day One @OLC 2014-Dr. John Medina
- Day Two @OLC– this is the day I co-presented the above presentation/secrets to teaching online/competency-based learning/developing an effective faculty orientation
- Day Three @ OLC
- Educating Minds Online – Advice – The Chronicle of Higher Education An outstanding new book provides a road map for truly effective teaching with technology.
- Instructional Strategies for Online Courses: The Illinois Online Network (ION) is a collaboration of all community colleges in Illinois and the University of Illinois working together to advance utilization of technology enhanced and Internet-based instruction and service.
- Mobile Learning: in Higher Education. Students have those mobile devices…use them.
Online Faculty Strategies: ideas to help you as the online instructor
- 5 Skills of Successful Online Faculty: New study discusses the skills and motivations of qualified online faculty in order to prevent burnout, inefficiency.
- Nine Characteristics of a Great Teacher: Great teaching seems to have less to do with our knowledge and skills than with our attitude toward our students, our subject, and our work.
- Three Ways to Breathe New Life Into Your Online Courses: This article will discuss the unique needs of the online student and suggest three strategies to meet these needs through effective, innovative online instruction. Note: formative assessment is covered in this article.
Student Support & Success [Retention] Strategies:
- A Dozen Strategies for Improving Online Retention: Online student retention is one of the most critical components for the success of any college or university. The key to a successful online retention program is the realization that student retention is everybody’s job.
- New Roles for Student Support Services in Distance Learning: Ideas for student support
- Strategies for Increasing Online Student Retention and Satisfaction: Despite the tremendous growth of distance education, retention remains its Achilles’ heel. Estimates of the failed retention rate for distance education undergraduates range from 20 to 50 percent. Learn tips to retain online students.
Folks to Watch:
- MIT Online Education Policy Initiative: The MIT Online Education Policy Initiative studies the impacts of online learning on the higher education community from a policy perspective.
- Phi Hill and Michael Feldstein write for the eLiterate Blog: check it out for current ideas. Use the search tool, on the blog, to find good stuff.
Below is Kendra Grant’s engaging TouchCast about her fascinating roles in education, ranging from Special Ed teacher to technology coach to the president of the UDL playground at ISTE! Look at this to see how a TouchCast video works and get some good background on UDL and ISTE.
- As you begin to think about teaching and/or course design strategies that you would like to use in your online or blended course. This brief video from EDUCAUSE will help you get started in thinking about some positive strategies you can use.
Online Learning 3.0
Inside Higher Ed Article
Do you think online faculty would work harder if they were given a piece of the tuition pie? Today, Inside Higher Ed posted this article A Piece of the Online Pie. There is a third party company, American Partnership, which proposes to do just that.
The online “enabler” company Academic Partnerships plans to share tuition revenue with faculty members at partnering universities as the company prepares a major update of its online education platform.
Notoriously online faculty are underpaid and over worked. Given the opportunity to have a bigger piece of the pie, do you think that incentive would help improve online faculty interaction and performance? Would it improve yours?
And, what do you think of that image/graphic? Look how the 3.0 online game changes learning: mobile devices, multiple languages, student interaction and credentialing….thoughts anyone?
