Online Course Peer Review

Students who are new to online learning are often, quite understandably, nervous about how the online classroom works. I’d hazard to guess thatmost of us have at least a few students each semester who are overly concerned about how to use important features of the classroom — the dropbox and quizzes, in particular. A fairly [...]

Over the course of the academic year, I’ll be coordinating adozen or soopportunities for online faculty to see how their peers teach online.The first session will be held next Wednesday, September 26 in the library’s technology center. Watch for details via email, as I’m still in the process of reserving rooms and scheduling meeting dates [...]

A few years back I realized that I needed to address the seemingly growing number of students who werepurchasing the wrong textbook, the wrong edition, or failing to buy one at all (”you mean we need to buy a textbook for an online course?”). Iroutinely provided the correct textbook information on the syllabus and course [...]