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.…
Category: Best Practices
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…
OSCQR 3.0 Annotations – SUNY Open Source Quality Review System (Rubric and OLC Scorecard)
OSCQR Introduction Below is some information originally found at https://bbsupport.sln.suny.edu/bbcswebdav/institution/OSCQR/OSCQR-3.0-Explanations-And-Examples.html that I am archiving here for educational purposes. It is part of the open source quality review system called “OSCQR” http://oscqr.org/ created in the SUNY system. They have an excellent rubric that…
Interactive Classroom Ideas (to save your students from more lectures)
The Lecture Doth Persist Lectures, either in-class or by video, have their place in education but still too lofty a place. If they are too long they can become a waste of time and the format itself kills student interaction. Why…
Robots Take Distance Learning to New Level
Personal Robots in 2017 It is not longer science fiction. For years, robots have been increasingly working in the manufacturing industry. They are “helping, not replacing humans” as I heard one Toyota tour guide say. Now robots are quickly become part…