Online teaching is teaching, but your role is less of the “sage on the stage” and more the “guide on the side.” Your main job in the online course is not to deliver content but to facilitate learning and engagement.…
Engaging More in Online Classes – The Students Need and Want It!
We all know engagement in our online classes is important as instructors. But how can we engage more ? And how do we know if we need to? Engaging Online with “Small Teaching” actions I love the ideas of “Small…
Creating Better Definitions of Distance Education Article in the Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration
Please read and share my latest published article here: Creating Better Definitions of Distance Education https://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/summer232/johnston232.html Especially in the current COVID crisis and with so many universities rapidly moving to what some are called “remote learning,” there is a lot…
Top 100 Technology Tools for Higher Education 2019 Survey
Find the link below to the results of a the 13th annual learning tools survey published September 2019. This is a great compilation of tech tools that you might find helpful in your learning and teaching online or in the…
New Canvas Rich Content Editor Update – Guide for 2020
This is just a quick note about a Canvas update that happened here at our school (University of Kentucky) on January 18th, 2020 – upgrading what was called the “Rich Text Editor” and is now the “Rich Content Editor.” This…