Online Course Peer Review

Faculty interest in the peer review process is down a bit this semester compared to this same time last year. In an effort to get to the bottom of the decline, I spoke with LSC’s instructional technologist, Susan Bentley McCahan who works closely with faculty members who are just starting out with online learning. Susan [...]

Most online instructors encourage students to introduce themselves to each other during the first week of class. Whether it’s a graded activity or not, this is a good way to get students interacting and to build a sense of community. What instructors may forget, however, is that students are interested in knowing who’s teaching the [...]

Netiquette is, more or less, the use of appropriate communication online (network etiquette). This rubric standard is worth just one point,yet clearly communicating to students what is expected in terms of appropriate communication can result in less work for the instructor (fewer emails to students about what is/is not appropriate, fewer deletions of discussion postings, [...]