CETLOE Stories
Welcome to the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Online Education at Georgia State University.
There’s no better place to start your exploration of teaching in the digital age! You can find monthly iCollege updates, course design suggestions, and faculty highlights. Interested in doing more with your course? Contact us so we can help you on your journey.
PAWS Enrollments and iCollege
Near Real Time Integration We are excited to announce a “near real-time” enrollment process in iCollege! Beginning Fall Semester...
Learning Technology Updates for July 2022
We have several new updates to iCollege, Turnitin, and VoiceThread that are available now! See below for details, and please contact...
Learning Technology Updates for June 2022
We have several new updates to iCollege, Webex, Slido, and VoiceThread that are available now! See below for details, and please...
From the Interwebs: Tips for Building Online Instructor Presence
Every now and again we come across articles with some very quick practicality for teaching online courses. And where we often focus on designing your course, instructor presence in an online course is probably one of the biggest contributors of student retention...
The Joy of Breaking Things
I’d been thinking about the need for experimentation in learning. How might we design experiences where learners feel safe and motivated to explore? To disrupt habits and take risks? Then my daughter’s daycare classroom closed due to a COVID-19 exposure,...
iCollege Updates for February 2021
We are pleased to announce two major updates coming to iCollege this Friday, February 26. Both updates are focused on making the learning environment more accessible to all learners. For more information on accessibility and universal design, please review this...
Managing Incompletes in iCollege
Each time a course is created in iCollege there is a course end date automatically set. Once the end date passes, students can no longer access the course. The default end date for a course is generally 60 days after the last day of classes as shown on the...
Bean Dad Pedagogy: Teaching Complex Software Tools
In the early days of 2021, the internet was briefly consumed with the story of ‘Bean Dad,’ a father who’s 9-year-old daughter was trying to make baked beans but didn’t know how to use a can opener. Bean Dad saw this as a ‘teachable moment’, gave his daughter a...
Moving Lawyering: Practice Ready Writing Online in a Pandemic
Moving courses from a face to face or blended environment to fully online typically includes challenges, but when the class has an intricate fixed schedule and multiple moving parts the challenges increase exponentially. My name is Katie Bridges. I'm a Learning...
Learning Technology Updates for January 2021
Welcome to a new year in learning technology! This month we want to highlight a couple of Webex updates, and we want to share how you can turn off the new iCollege Assignment creation experience if it does not meet your needs. iCollege – Turning Off the New Assignment...
Effective and Efficient Communication with Students in iCollege
In my last post, I suggested that instructors establish immediacy with students by making adjustments to the way they respond to student emails. But once they have access to your iCollege course, there are many communication techniques that can effectively provide...
Answering Student Emails to Establish Immediacy
Hi, I’m Steve. I was a professor of communication for thirty years before accepting a position as a Learning Experience designer in the CETLOE in June. A month after starting, I was asked to teach an online class for the Department of Communication in the fall. The...
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