Most recent decade has seen increased interest in conducting well-designed studies that provide actionable guidelines for the design of online activities, based on measurable change in student knowledge...
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Blinkist-style book-club activity: manageable book-reading
What's the best approach to get grad students to read complete books, without overwhelming them with work? Here I explore a solution inspired in one of my favorite phone apps, Blinkist, and merging it with an old-fashioned book-club idea...
Never, never, never of online discussions
Online discussions in some ways they are better than traditional face-to-face synchronous discussions. They are more equitable, giving everyone time to think, and leveling the playing field for intro- and extroverts (who are always guaranteed to win in face-to-face discussions!).
A reset & a restart…
I just came back from the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) 2019 Accelerate conference in Orlando, FL, where I presented a session titled "What Students Want: Taking Instructional Design in Graduate Online Courses Beyond Best Practices, Principles, and Standards." It was…
