Resources
Thinking of using new technologies to enhance your teaching? This website is part of the Faculty Focus website for higher ed professionals. It contains articles that look at the benefits of using...
Preparing Students for an Online Class
Many feel that retention in an online class is directly related to the preparation the student receives before attempting to take an online course. Unfortunately many of our colleges don't have th...
NYU Undergrads Accused of Plagiarism
This is a must read article that speaks to plagiarism in college. A New York University professor claims that a substantial number of his students in business school plagiarized their work. They w...
10 Guidelines for Running Synchronous Web Teaching Sessions
Are you using Web meeting tools like Adobe Connect, Blackboard Collaborate, WebEx, or Microsoft Lync? This article goes over 10 guidelines for planning and facilitating them. There seem to be tw...
Here's a link to a website that contains many best practices for teaching online. The articles are short and contain many different checklists and templates that can be helpful when you find yours...
An Instructional Design Approach to Updating an Online Course Curriculum
This article presents a four fold approach to updating an online course. The 4 areas are:
- The course's adherence to legal guidelines and relevant policies
- The cour...
Community College Students Perform Worse Online than Face to Face
This article is based on a new study released by the Community College Research Center at the Teachers College at Columbia University. The study is based on enrollment history of 51,000 community-...
Adding Dilbert Cartoons to Your Website
Now this may seem a bit off the wall, but if you teach business classes you may have found Dilbert cartoons making points you would like to share with your classroom. The official Dilbert website...
Building Online Community Through Email Noodges
This article discusses email frequency and content that will engage an online community. While it is not written from the online classroom viewpoint, there are many valuable ideas that can be tran...
Use of Twitter in the Classroom
Mandatory use of Twitter in the classroom for sharing of resources and important announcements is reviewed. An interesting side effect is the increase in student ownership of their projects and in...
Web 2.0: Cool Tools for Schools
Looking for a special website or tool to use in your class? This is a resource wiki space that has been set up by educators to share web 2.0 tools. The navigation on the left is very helpful...
Improving Web Searches for Students
Allowing students to rely on internet searches has been a problem for professors, who worry that students are not finding the most reliable content when they bypass the library for a web search s...
Do you have any opinions about grading papers? I know I do. How about “it takes too much time?” I think we’ve all been there.
It’s encouraging ...