Assessing Student Performance in Online Classrooms
Assessment in online classes presents significant challenges for both students and teachers, especially for teachers like me who place a lot of importance on evidence gathered throughout the course by performance tasks.
Don't Sue Me, I'm Just the Professor
Let's say you've been teaching college courses online for a few years. Maybe it took you some time to warm up to the idea, but eventually you came around, completed the training classes, got the approval of your department chair, and launched your own Web-based courses. Now you enjoy the freedom and flexibility teaching online gives you. You're good at it. You're comfortable.
Incorporating Synchronous Web Conferencing Sessions into Your Online Course: 5 Tips for Beginners
Incorporating a synchronous communication component into your online course can help students feel that they are a part of a learning community rather than individuals navigating through your online course. There are several Web-conferencing programs that can be adapted for academic use; however, effective use of such programs can be an added challenge to your role as online instructor.
PowerPoint for Online Courses, Part 5: Useful Charts and Graphs
PowerPoint is often given a bum rap as an instructional tool, but I say it's how we use the tool that's the problem, not the tool itself! In this series of articles, I'm discussing how to improve your use of PowerPoint as an online teaching and learning tool. Although there are plenty of other tools to use for creating online content, PowerPoint is widely used. So it's important that we use it well.
Teach Online Like It's 1990 ... and Refresh Your Teaching Prowess!
Facebook, tweets, texting, email, NanoGong, Curriki, audio clips, video streaming—the list of technological add-ons to enhance our teaching efforts seems to be endless and growing. And this is good, of course, because they allow us to use so many more applications with our online teaching. Yet as these add-ons continue to grow in use, a problem has also begun to surface: the online instructor who relies on these "cool" apps and software so heavily that he or she begins to neglect the basics of teaching—and once those basics are minimized or neglected, soon thereafter the class will begin to die. Not only should this never happen, it does not ever have to happen.
Tips from the Pros - How Can You Avoid Potential Lawsuits in Your Online Classes?
Know the law. Make sure you're well-acquainted with federal guidelines regarding copyright, fair use, and so forth. State and local laws may also apply to issues like defamation and work for hire.
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