Exploring Teacher Professional Development and Support in an Adaptive Learning Environment
Every student is unique. Individual difference among students can result in diverse ways of communication, interaction, and learning. In the Convention of Association of Educational Communication, & Technology (AECT) in Las Vegas this October, I presented a study...
Create a Pre-assessment for Your Online Course
In an online course, student orientation plays an important role in assisting students to get familiar the entire online environment. Through student orientation, students have a great opportunity to know the overview of online learning, navigation of online course,...
Call for ALG Grant Proposal- Transform Your Textbook
Affordable Learning Georgia’s Textbook Transformation Grants support the replacement of expensive commercial textbooks with low-cost, no-cost, and open educational resources. The Round Six-Eight ALG Textbook Transformation Grants Request for Proposals (RFP) is...
Gamifying Your Course
We have a fair number of meetings with instructors who want to gamify their courses. Who can blame them – if you could get your students hooked on your subject like they are on whatever they’re playing on their phones during class, you’d be a fool if you didn’t...
Writing as Effective Communication in a Research and Technical Report
“Writing Effective Research and Technical Reports” was my first project with the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Working with Pam and Linda I updated their website and developed an eBook. The purpose of both is to help students produce research reports...
Use of Open Educational Resources in an Introductory Statistics Course
Two weeks ago, I presented my dissertation study in the convention of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in Washington DC. This is a rewarding experience for educators and practioners to network and know the trend in the field. Here is the abstract...Instructional Design in Competence-based Education and its Challenge
Competence-based education (CBE) was initially developed in order to bridge the gap between the labor market and vocational and technical education and nowadays is utilized in interdisciplinary fields. Competence is defined as the ability that one person can...Use of Social Media in Your Course
Social media has been widely utilized in teaching and learning. Doctor (2013) stated that the advantages that social media brings to education include easy communication, immediate information update, and high flexibility with a variety of devices (e.g., smart phones...Create Infographic for Data Visualization
Images are sometimes more explanatory than texts. More and more people like to create infographic to convey complex information. Infographic not only includes text and images to transmit abstract information but also makes the entire graphic more visually appealing....Using 9 Events of Instruction in Your Online Course
Before we further talk about Gagne’s 9 events of instruction. Let’s see the video below and identify how these 9 events can be applied to train cats. Robert Gagne is an educational psychologist and well-known for his book, “Principles of Instructional Design” to use a...Book Review: Teaching in a Digital Age
On one Wednesday afternoon, some of my friends who teach or design online courses in other institutions were talking about the books you may recommend to novice instructors in online teaching. This free eBook, Teaching in a Digital Age, was recommended as a good...Design Student Orientation for Your Online Course
Let’s think about a situation. In the beginning of semester, you have 40 students in your online course. Those students come from diverse backgrounds with different level of experience for online learning. Some students may only take 1 or 2 online courses before, but...5 Myths about Open Educational Resources
Myth 1- Quality does not matter. OER repositories such as Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) provides over 40,000 materials in 19 different material type categories which include animations, simulations, open textbooks, etc. The...Why Open Educational Resource?
Have you ever thought that some students drop courses due to textbook prices? How many students do you think do this every semester? To avoid high costs, students resort to used books, so publishers respond with frequently updated editions, and students start renting...Subscribe by Email
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