Communicating in an online environment, especially within the confines of an institution's learning management system (LMS) and an academic budget, often poses a challenge to even the most well-intentioned instructors. Many times we find ourselves constrained not by our imaginations or abilities but by the technological tools we have at our disposal. Given the systems in which we work, how do we select the best technological tool—the best medium—to communicate a message? One framework for answering these questions is through the lens of Media Richness Theory (MRT).
Online Learning and Service-Learning: How They Can Work Together
The benefits of having students engage in service activities to help create richer and more meaningful connection to course material have been well documented and utilized in higher education. However, using this tried-and-true practice is relatively new in the online classroom, so as educators and administrators we're still learning how we can implement this method of education in the online environment to its fullest extent.
Online Teaching Fundamentals: Making Online PowerPoint Content Engaging: How to Record Narration
In this series on adding narration and interactivity to online PowerPoint presentations, I'm hoping to help you produce more compelling PowerPoint-based presentations for your online students. Slides, even with text and graphics on them, don't make good instructional content. PowerPoint is supposed to support and enhance a presentation, not become the presentation itself.
Teaching Online with Errol: The Online Tutor—Getting Your Students to Use It
Many schools offering online courses pride themselves on making free online tutoring services available to their students. These allow students to submit their written work to a tutor and then receive detailed feedback on what can use improvement and what the student is doing well. Unfortunately, these online tutoring services are not used by students as much as they should be, for they often are simply in a course for a student to use at his or her leisure. Yet survey after survey has found that students who take advantage of these online tutoring services become better writers in the classroom and in the workplace.
Tips from the Pros: Three Rapid e-Learning Tools to Consider
If you're looking to enhance your online courses, rapid e-learning tools could be the answer. Rapid e-learning tools enable even those with fairly limited technical experience to create rich online learning course elements. The following are three that Rebecca Blakiston, Instructional Services Librarian University of Arizona Libraries, recommends:
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