Providing Context: Review, Preview, Motivate
Most faculty know that the best practice when designing a course is leveraging the principle of backwards design: Begin with where you want your students to end (what skills and…
Most faculty know that the best practice when designing a course is leveraging the principle of backwards design: Begin with where you want your students to end (what skills and…
Course design is especially critical for online courses because you have to produce your course materials in advance. Once the course is live and students are enrolled, it’s much harder…
Richard Mayer’s seminal book Multimedia Learning details his extensive research on how to structure multimedia materials effectively to maximize learning. Relying on numerous experiments, he distills his findings into 12…
Transitioning from teaching a face-to-face class to teaching an online course requires rethinking and reconfiguring materials. Lectures, activities, and assessments that worked for your face-to-face class will need to be…
When you design a face-to-face course, you probably start by asking questions. Who are my students likely to be? How large is the class? How many credits does the course…
“Every professor teaching online should consider team projects for his or her classes.” — Edward Volchoc (2006) Group projects allow students to tackle more complex and interesting problems than they…