How is Gen Z impacted by online learning?
A university professor looks into how remote and online learning is impacting Gen Z–research that has implications for teaching during COVID-19 eCampus News
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OSU offers virtual gardening, chicken brooding classes during lockdown
As people work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic and spend more time thinking about their personal safety and security, home gardening has grown in popularity, said Timothy McDermott, an extension educator in agriculture and natural resources at The Ohio State University. edscoop
Examining How Online Professional Development Impacts Teachers’ Beliefs About Teaching Statistics
With online learning becoming a more viable option for teachers to develop their expertise, our report shares one such effort focused on improving the teaching of statistics. We share design principles and learning opportunities in an online course developed specifically to serve as a wide-scale online professional development opportunity for educators, thus deemed as a […]
Facilitation Matters: Instructor Perception of Helpfulness of Facilitation Strategies in Online Courses
Online course facilitation is critical to the success of online courses. Instructors use various facilitation strategies in online courses to engage students. One hundred instructors were surveyed on their perception of helpfulness of twelve different facilitation strategies used in online courses to enhance instructor presence, instructor connection, engagement and learning. Instructors’ timely response to questions […]
Librarian Integrated Workflows to Enhance Course Design & Development
As the modes of course development in universities shift to be more team-based, librarians are now contributing core components of course development operations. This article outlines the ways that librarians at Capella University have been integrated systematically into course development. Adding librarians to specific points throughout the course development process has streamlined processes, saved materials […]
Exploring Factors that Impact Faculty Decisions to Teach Languages Online: Is It Worth the Individual Return on Investment?
Over the past decade, scholars have explored factors that motivate or impede faculty decisions to teach online in the broader context of higher education (Mitchell & Geva-May, 2009; Shea, Pickett, & Li, 2005; Tabata & Johnsrud, 2008; Wright, 2014; Zhen, Garthwait, & Pratt, 2008). However, comparable research in specific, academic disciplines is limited, especially as […]
Immersion, interaction, and experience-oriented learning: Bringing virtual reality into FL learning
Virtual reality (VR) is not only attracting the attention of the information and computer technology (ICT) industry (Shirer & Torchia, 2017), especially in the production of consumer VR hardware, but also that of educators. Three years in a row, the Horizon Reports of 2016, 2017, and 2018 have mentioned that VR, or mixed reality, is […]
Students’ Perspectives on the Impact of Blackboard Collaborate on Open University Australia (OUA) Online Learning
Blackboard Collaborate (BC), a synchronous, multimodal platform, has been incorporated into Open University Australia (OUA) students’ online learning experiences. This study sought to investigate the perspectives of 134 interdisciplinary OUA students via an online survey and follow-up interviews. Findings revealed students’ positive perceptions about BC as an engaging, real-time medium for feedback exchange, knowledge sharing, […]
How Teaching Changed in the (Forced) Shift to Remote Learning
New survey documents how professors view this spring’s mass move to virtual courses. Key findings: most used new teaching methods, half lowered their expectations for the volume of student work — and a third for its quality. Inside Higher Ed
Not for coronavirus, Utah Valley U. launches online-degrees website
Utah Valley University launched a new website this week to help students understand and enroll in online courses. edscoop
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