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Johns Hopkins. Guide to online teaching.
. CAST. "A framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn."
, Harvard Business Publishing, Education, April 2019.
Edwige Simon, Educause Review, Nov 21, 2018.
, Karen Sibley and Ren Whitaker. Educause Review, March 2015. SPS's Dean and Director of Online Learning discuss keys to setting faculty up for success in online or blended courses.
, Ozgur Ekmekci. Higher Education Studies, Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013.
, Erlan Burk. eLearn, July 2011. This article has flags indicating a less-than-optimal learning environment.
Liyan Song and Scot W. McNary. Journal of Interactive Online Learning, Spring 2011. This study suggests no correlation between the number of posts and students’ success.
Stefan Hrastinski. Educause Quarterly, 2008. A study of asynchronous and synchronous e-learning methods discovered that each supports different purposes.
Instructional Design Fusions, 2011.
, Tammy Stuart Peery and Samantha Streamer Veneruso. Faculty Focus, 2012.
Cheryl Hayek. Faculty Focus, 2012.
ITG Blog, September 23, 2015. Exactly how the lecture-based format is enhanced and extended with more active, participatory, and project-based pedagogies.
. Fiock, H., Garcia, H. Chronicle of Higher Education, 2019.)
. Dunlap, J.
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, Christine Harrington, Cengage Blog, 2016.
See parts of this report that may impact your course development and teaching.
Students in online conditions performed modestly better, on average, than those learning the same material through traditional face-to-face instruction.
Instruction combining online and face-to-face elements (blended learning) produced better learning outcome results than either purely face-to-face or purely online instruction.
Online learning can be enhanced by giving learners control of their interactions with media and prompting learner reflection.
This is the 13th annual report on the state of online learning in higher education. "Online Learning and MOOCs" (p. 7–8) provides an explanation of the terms used to identify the types of online education.
Topics explored:
The role and function of theory in online development and delivery
Infrastructure and support for content development
Design and development of online courses
Delivery, quality control, and student support of online courses
. U.S. Department of Education, September 2010.
. Babson Survey Research Group in partnership with Pearson, The Online Learning Consortium (OLC), Study Portals, WCET, and Tyton Partners, 2015.
Key findings can be viewed in this.
. This Harvard CS professor talks about how and why he's using active learning in his face-to-face courses.
, Paul, Annie Murphy. New York Times. September 2015.
Practices, Brown University, Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning.
, Stanford | Teaching Commons.
, Harvard University, Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.
, Maryellen Weimer. Faculty Focus, February 2011.
Derek Fullerton.
, UNSW Australia. Coursera.
Michelle D. Miller. 2016. Very interesting read. Drawing on neuroscience and cognitive psychology, this psychology professor shows how attention, memory, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning can be enhanced through technology-aided approaches. The is also available from the Brown Library.
This text is primarily focussed on corporate training rather than academia, but it includes a lot of research-based guides to the design of online learning of any kind, 4th ed. Wiley, 2016
Marjorie Vai and Kristen Sosulski. 2015.
. Ed. by Terry Anderson, Edmonton: AU Press, May 2008. This respected title is also available as a free download.
Anne Meyer, David H. Rose, David Gordon. CAST, 2016.
Rena M. Palloff, Keith Pratt. Jossey-Bass, 2013. Free ebook available through Brown Library.
Julie Dirksen, New Riders, 2016.
