Guiding Faculty into Immersive Environments
What’s the best way to get faculty to engage with emerging technologies and incorporate new learning spaces into their teaching? Five institutions share their experiences. Campus Technology
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Current Practices of Online Instructor Evaluation in Higher Education
As enrollment of students in online courses has steadily increased over the last few decades, very little attention has been given to online instructor evaluation. This is an area of online education that needs additional research to better ascertain the current state of online instructor evaluation as well as discover ways to improve its effectiveness. […]
Understanding the faculty perspectives influencing their innovative practices in MOOCs/SPOCs: a case study
Learning in environments such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and its variations have become a turning point in the design and range of university courses offered, although there is some difficulty in transforming their pedagogical discourse. Additionally, flexible and skillful faculty are required to respond to the diversity and continuous social changes to ensure […]
Building Trust: How to Address Faculty Concerns about Online Education
As administrators recognize the benefits and push for increased online learning initiatives at their schools, it’s necessary for them to fully understand, validate and address faculty concerns. This playbook discusses key areas of concern for faculty with online learning and provides recommendations to help school administrators better understand how to address them and build a […]
I’m Never Doing This Again!: Identifying and Solving Faculty Challenges in Adoption of Open Educational Resources
Open educational resources (OER) can be an effective tool in lowering student textbook expenses and bringing current material into the classroom, but come with many barriers for faculty related to time, expertise, motivation, standardized testing requirements, and subject matter differences. Given the number of potential challenges and problems with using OER, school administrators with distance […]
Towards a Common Data Set for Online Program Management
Administrators of distance learning courses and programs are faced with various data needs related to a range of issues; from enrollment tracking to faculty development to cost and revenue analysis. This paper will explore a proposed common data set for online program administrators and strategies for implementation. The framework offered for building a dataset necessary […]
Adaptive Learning Unplugged: Why Instructors Matter More than Ever
Proponents of adaptive learning (AL) technology tout its great value as being its ability to create student-centered classrooms in their most individualized form, shy of limiting the student-to-teacher ratio to 5:1 or less. AL does this by customizing learning based on the knowledge each student brings to the course. While this personalization benefit is certainly […]
3 Strategies for Overcoming Faculty Resistance to Active Learning Techniques
Getting faculty on board with active learning is key to improving student outcomes, and incorporating these learning strategies requires buy-in from both instructors and students. EDUCAUSE Review
Exploring lecturer engagement with the VLE [Virtual Learning Environment]: findings from a multi-college staff survey
Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) are important infrastructure and digital educational spaces that are widely used. The lecturers’ voices on VLEs and their use were not adequately captured in the #VLEIreland project. Therefore, following the development and piloting of a questionnaire consisting of a common set of questions, lecturers were surveyed across seven Irish higher education […]
Identifying the characteristics of support Australian university teachers use in their design work: Implications for the learning design field
Quality teaching is a strategic objective for universities; thus, there is an expectation that university teachers design high quality learning experience for their students. The field of learning design has developed over the past 15 years as a way to support teachers in their design work. There has been significant research and development work that […]
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