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Designing Your Own Chatbot
Design, customize, and refine a chatbot tailored to your needs and interests.
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Enhancing Reflective Practices with AI
Reflection is a key component of experiential learning, what role might new technologies play in enhancing this process?
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Exploring Forms of Feedback with AI
Interactive workshop focusing on the intersection of artificial intelligence tools and the feedback process
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Bringing cooperative learning structures online using breakout rooms
How to bring traditional peer interaction structures like jigsaw, speed dating, gallery walks, and mix and mingle into the digital space
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Classes on your feet
Opportunities for students to leave the screen and incorporate movement into learning activities
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Supporting assessment in online environments
Suggestions and considerations for feedback and evaluation in a virtual classroom
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Direct instruction in online environments
Toolkit and recommendations for delivering content in a virtual classroom
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Learning activities in varied environments
Instructional practices that augment active learning and engagement
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Questioning and discussion techniques
Techniques to promote engagement and participation in discussions
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How to leverage podcasts for learning
Podcasts are an engaging way for instructors to merge project-based learning with digital media
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How to create your own podcast
Creating, editing, and distributing engaging audio content
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How Hyperdocs connect learning resources
Hyperdocs centralize instructional materials for a particular lesson, unit, week, or course into a single document
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How to utilize Padlet, a customizable bulletin board
Padlet is a virtual, customizable ‘bulletin board’ with options to populate with text, images, audio, videos, and links
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How to distribute weekly exit tickets to check-in on students
Exit tickets allow instructors to gauge how students are doing and collect course feedback
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How to conduct one-on-one meetings with students
Individualized meetings can foster connection and feedback with students
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How to use the Slides as Virtual Background Zoom feature
The new Zoom presentation share screening option allows your meeting to be better accessible to students as well as less distracting
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How to create hands-on and experiential activities
Hands-on activities with manipulable materials and objects can propel learning and discourse
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Informal trust-building in an online environment
A GSE-inspired collection of practices for positive relationships in the digital classroom
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How to deploy a launchpad to centralize course materials
Improve communication through a shared document that organizes course content
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How to use anonymous surveys to get student feedback
Anonymous semi-regular feedback forms can pave the way for a more student-centered learning experience
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Community building activities for agreement and norm-setting
This article offers some tips on how to build community in an online environment
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Supporting student well-being
A detailed guide on how to support student well-being online and lessen the mental health impacts of COVID-19
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Building community and trust throughout the quarter
A collection of community and relationship building activities to use throughout the quarter
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How to learn and teach in a hybrid course
A handbook for designing and teaching hybrid or blended courses focuses on outcomes-based practice
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Providing student feedback in online courses
An article exploring how good online course feedback is one way to influence student learning
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Effective online instructional and assessment strategies
A study surveying students and faculty about their perceptions of effective online instructional strategies
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Millennial students and the flipped classroom
This paper examines the flipped-classroom approach to teaching accounting to millennial students
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Cognitive presence in asynchronous online learning
This article examines the contribution of four scenario‐based online discussion strategies
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The impact of a flipped classroom design on learning performance in higher education
This study examines the differential impact of studying in a flipped classroom setting
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Cognitive style and attitudes towards using online learning and assessment methods
This study investigates several forms of online learning and assessment methods
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Facilitating cognitive presence in online learning
A study on interaction in online learning and new technologies to support sustained educational communication
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Designing learning environments to promote student learning: An ergonomic focus
A report on how the design of learning environments can influence student performance
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Building effective blended learning programs
Research on blended learning programs that complements students and promotes learning and application-learned behaviors
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Students speak about their online learning experiences
A small qualitative study that examines the perceptions of components of virtual schooling
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A blended learning approach to enhance students’ learning experiences
A case study examining the benefits of blended learning on students’ learning experiences
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Using social annotation in online classes
An article on how using social annotation in online learning environments can improve teaching strategies
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Computer-mediated communication to enhance face-to-face discussions
A small study on the effects of computer-mediated communication
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An instructional framework for fostering student engagement in online learning
A guide with four recommendations for developing blended courses
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Motivation as a lens to understand online learners
An article on how open online learning environments are a novel convergence of traditional course structures
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Academic motivation and self-regulation in online learning
A comparative study on the academic motivation of undergraduates and graduate students in online courses
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Social robots and virtual agents as lecturers for video instruction
A lab experiment testing the results of substituting a digital agent for a video of the instructor
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Faculty role in responding to the acutely distressed college student
A study on the importance of promoting mental health and implementing suicide prevention models
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Barriers to learning online experienced by students with a mental health disability
A qualitative case study to better understand online learning barriers
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The instructor’s face in video instruction
Two field studies highlight the value of social cues for motivation, and expresses caution against the one-size-fits-all approaches to instructional design
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How to organize learner-centered course material
Options and tips for organizing class materials and resources, using a learner-centered Canvas compatible approach
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Social learning theory and web-based learning environments
An analysis of social learning pedagogical models and how they can be used to design technology-mediated teaching
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Building community and setting norms during the first day of class
A collection of community and relationship building activities for the first day of class
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Suggested norms for online classes
General classroom norms and netiquette for online learning environments
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Facilitating class community building before the quarter begins
A collection of college level community and relationship building activities for before the quarter begins
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Connecting in the virtual college classroom
Digital learning experts at the GSE share tips to help instructors build community and collaboration while teaching remotely.
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What is synchronous and asynchronous learning?
Guide to understanding the interplay and affordances of online and offline instruction