Active Learning Online clearly explains the science behind the benefits of active learning theory and provides concrete examples of how to re-design learning activities to stimulate, engage, and motivate students in online environments.
Provides practical, real-world advice grounded in educational science to help online instructors, instructional designers, and administrators deliver an exceptional learning experience.
Guidance for educators who want to feel natural and fluent in the online learning environment and for enhancing the user-centered nature of online spaces to create student-centered learning environments.
This book uniquely offers the distilled wisdom of scores of instructors principles and practices for creating the inclusive classroom environments (in person and online) that will help their students succeed.
This updated edition is a comprehensive resource that offers college teachers a dynamic model for engaging students and includes over one hundred tips, strategies, and techniques that have been proven to help teachers across all disciplines motivate and connect with their students.
Higher education in the United States is currently facing an online retention crisis. Many more of the students in online classes are failing and dropping out compared with in-person classes. The author shows what a difference it makes in student success when professors build relationships with their students
The Distance Learning Playbook for College and University Instruction mobilizes decades of Visible Learning® research to reveal those evidence-based strategies that work best in an online environment. Supplemented by video footage and opportunities to self-assess.
The 76-page study profiles the efforts of four higher education institutions to teach information literacy online: the University of Missouri, Columbia; Indiana University, Bloomington; the University of Washington, and the Phoenix Biomedical Campus.