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Tips, Tricks, and Lifehacks for Online Educators

CLIC - Continuous Learning Improvement Cycle
CLIC – Continuous Learning Improvement Cycle (Photo credit: bchapman_utah)

_I was recently asked to email a friend‐of‐a‐friend, a librarian who was asked to do some Instructional Design in Canvas LMS. I’m reprinting my response in case it can benefit any other education/information p...

Baruch College's largest lecture hall which ac...
Baruch College’s largest lecture hall which accommodate roughly 500 students. It occupies 2 floors (4th & 5th) of the Vertical Campus building. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Response to The Trouble with Online College, NY Times

I think this article is right on the money about the ch...

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During the process of evaluating Blackboard as our Learning Management System (LMS), we came to a basic and fundamental question:

“Which tools do faculty really use?”

Although most of the core functions of an online course can be managed with a blog, Learning Management systems come stuf...

(This post is part of a series called “The Connected Class Community”).

Angry Birds smashing UC Berkeley's Sather Tower

A popular reason for exploring gamification in online learning is because we want to increase student engagement with the content. Games are nothing if not engaging, and the very best games can give educators deep insights...