Exploring rarely-noticed default settings that mediate instructor-student interactions, and their impact on student experience. It's time to pivot from acceptance of (silent) defaults, to intentional, deliberate choices that matter...
This post is about one persistent element of instructional design of courses in all LMSs I know that has kept me baffled for years, and that - simply refuses to get traction... So let's flip our courses... no, not that kind of flip...
To get the best results and not make your department go bankrupt in the process, separate course-content videos from occasional videos. This useful distinction deserves to get much more attention...
Reading complex, information-packed content that includes many completely new concepts is challenging: students may be tempted to breeze-through the text too fast, half an hour before class for which it was assigned, or late at night, twenty minutes before the submission deadline...
This is possibly the easiest online discussion type or "template" to implement. It is indispensable in any new or redesigned online course. I call it "see the forest discussion," but most people call similar activities "exit tickets." The interesting part is that it isn't really a "discussion" in the strict sense, but is worth considering, if you don't use it.
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