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Chicago Online Learning Summit Reflections
On Wednesday, July 13, the Learning Design team attended the Chicago Online Learning Summit. This summit included a number of speakers from the field, and the team has reflected on what they learned and how it will impact their … Read More
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Chicago-Area Distance Teaching and Learning Conferences 2016
Introduction As an online instructor for adult and professional students, you know that it’s important to stay current with research and trends in learning science, learning design practice, and learning technologies. That can involve any number of research activities, including … Read More
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Are Gamification and Game-Based Learning the Same Thing?
One teacher I remember well is my seventh grade Texas History teacher. One reason he stands out was his unique ranking system, which ranked his top ten students from all his courses based on their grades. The better you did, … Read More
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Mapping the Terrain: How To Help Your Students Wrap their Minds Around Big Ideas
What Are Mind Maps? Learning researchers in the 1960s proposed mind maps as a way to make learning happen more quickly. Tony Buzan, with degrees in such varied fields as psychology, mathematics, English, and the general sciences, drew attention to … Read More
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New to Online Course Design and Teaching? No Problem! We’ve Got You Covered!
Online course design and teaching presents a unique set of challenges and rewards. There are dozens of new variables to consider, like course structure, content delivery, and synchronous sessions. There’s no face-to-face classroom interaction or collecting students work in real … Read More
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Scaling Assessments Using Zaption and draw.io
Recently, IMC Professor Judy Franks presented an interesting issue: her student evaluation feedback indicated that her students absolutely loved her course, but were overwhelmed with the workload. In addition, she was asked to teach three sections of the course in … Read More
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Selecting a Video Style
What type of video should I make? If you arrived at this blog post hoping for a prescriptive answer to that question, you won’t find it here. Instead you will find a framework for including video in your online course, … Read More
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Moving Forward By Looking Backward
If you sit down with a learning designer at the School of Professional Studies to talk about a strategy for designing or redesigning your course and they suggest beginning with the end of the course in mind, you might find … Read More
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Accessibility and Compliance in Online Education Course Review
Introduction Content Editor Christine Scherer and Learning Designer Krissy Wilson joined Rutgers University Continuing Education for a six-week course: Accessibility and Compliance in Online Education. The course focused on “basic concepts, issues, approaches, strategies, beneficiaries, and resources with regard to … Read More
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Blue Jeans: June 2016 Online Learning Webinar
June’s Online Learning Webinar, hosted by instructional technologist Jackie Wickham, was a demo of Blue Jeans, Northwestern’s new web conferencing software that integrates with Canvas. Online faculty in the School of Professional Studies are encouraged to use Blue Jeans to … Read More