Many people are suspicious of online learning. Their main concern is wondering if it actually “works.” (These same people often do not apply this same question to face-to-face, lecture-based instruction, but that is a topic for another time…). Studies are…
Workshops and Highlights from DevLearn 2016
DevLearn is a yearly conference put on by the e-learning guild. Click here for more information. Here are a few FREE session workshop video highlights that I think are relevant and helpful to e-learning in higher education: Fifty Tips for…
The 6 Best Practices of Online Learning – Minds Online / Michelle Miller
There is a high degree of overlap in online and face to face best practices. In the following presentation, I use the Six best practice for learning as outlined by Michelle Miller in the book, “Minds Online.” She draws from…
The Power of Peer Feedback – the Story of Austin’s Butterfly
We know that good feedback (formative assessment) in self-regulated learning increases success (see Formative assessment and self‐regulated learning: a model and seven principles of good feedback practice: Studies in Higher Education: Vol 31, No 2 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/10.1080/03075070600572090?scroll=top&needAccess=true#.WEF25TH_nOc.twitter among others). This video “The Story…
How to Access and Use Canvas Course Analytics
Below is a short video that will go over the 3 main purposes of Canvas course Analytics as well as the four main sections. It will also cover two other places to gather student interaction data for instructors. I hope…