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Effective Strategies for Improving College Teaching and Learning ( Added August 5, 2011)
It's been said that few things can enhance student learning more than an instructor's commit
ment to ongoing professional development. To be sure, a love of course content and a willingness to convey that enthusiasm to students is a vital component to effective teaching, but you also need to make sure the methods used to convey that knowledge are up to the task.
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Online Course Design: 13 Strategies for Teaching in a Web-based Distance Learning Environment
Good online course design begins with a clear understanding of specific learning outcomes and ways to engage students, while creating activities that allow students to take some control of their learning. It also requires a little extra effort upfront to minimize two of the most common frustrations of online learning.
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Course Design and Development Ideas That Work
This 17-page report features proven course design alternatives implemented in courses of varying sizes and disciplines. It's sure inspire you to rethink how you could change certain components of your courses to build a better learning environment.
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Student Collaboration in the Online Classroom
One of the best teaching tools in a traditional classroom is the team project. When students work together, they learn a great deal - not just about what they're studying, but about how to work with others toward common goals, with shared responsibilities, for shared reward. Traditional classrooms have an innate advantage in bringing students together ... the students are sitting there right in front of them. A collaborative project can begin by simply seating the team at the same table.
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10 Effective Classroom Management Techniques Every Faculty Member Should Know
Effective classroom management is much more than simply administering corrective measures when a student misbehaves; it's about developing proactive ways to prevent problems from occurring in the first place while creating a positive learning environment.
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Strategies for Increasing Online Student Retention and Satisfaction
As an increasing number of colleges and universities identify online education as a critical component to their long-term strategy, the issue of retention can no longer be ignored. It is mandatory for everyone who touches the distance learner to understand why these students leave their online courses, and what it will take to keep them there.
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Effective Group Work Strategies for the College Classroom
From understanding course content to developing problem solving, teamwork, and communication skills, group work is an effective teaching strategy whose lessons may endure well beyond the end of a course. So why is it that so many students (and some faculty) hate it?
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Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning Tools: 15 Strategies for Engaging Online Students Using Real-time Chat, Threaded Discussions and Blogs
Opportunities for meaningful synchronous and asynchronous interaction are plentiful, provided you design and facilitate your online course in the correct manner and with the proper tools. This free report provides practical advice from educators who've found effective ways to promote learning and build a sense of community in their online courses.
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Tips for Encouraging Student Participation in Classroom Discussions
A lot of students seem to assume that as long as the assigned work is completed on time, test scores are good, and attendance is satisfactory, they shouldn't be forced to participate. This special report will help you create favorable conditions for more active classroom discussions.
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Assessing Online Learning: Strategies, Challenges and Opportunities
If you want insight into how to assess online learning at the course, program, and institutional levels, you'll want to download this new special report that will help you create more effective online assessment exercises and strategies.
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10 Principles of Effective Online Teaching: Best Practices in Distance Education
Despite the many benefits, teaching online also comes with its share of challenges. This special report will help you establish online instructor best practices and performance expectations for creating a successful teaching and learning experience.
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Keys to Designing Effective Writing and Research Assignments
Professors often believe students should arrive on campus knowing how to write research papers. Unfortunately, many do not. Download this free report for proven assignment strategies that are easy to implement.
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11 Strategies for Managing Your Online Courses
If you think the flexibility of online teaching also means that it's OK to "wing it" now and then, you'd be wrong. If anything, you have to be more organized, more consistent and more prepared for anything than ever before.
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Effective Strategies for Improving College Teaching and Learning
What we teach and how we teach it are inextricably linked. This special report helps you discover new ways to build strong connections between the two with strategies for engaging students, giving feedback, creating a climate for learning, and more.
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Building Student Engagement: 15 Strategies for the College Classroom
One of the most challenging tasks instructors face is keeping students engaged.
Building Student Engagement: 15 Strategies for the College Classroom will help you meet that challenge while ensuring your classroom is a positive and productive learning environment.
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Teaching Mistakes from the College Classroom
If you're like most educators, you probably made your share of teaching mistakes. This report features more than a dozen essays by instructors who were willing to share their early-career missteps and the lessons they learned. Because sometimes you just have to follow your gut, and sometimes your gut is wrong.
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Promoting Academic Integrity in Online Education
Online education didn't invent cheating, but it does present unique challenges. This 20-page report provides proactive ways for meeting these challenges head on.
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11 Strategies for Getting Students to Read What's Assigned
Despite the correlation between reading and course success, many students try to do as little reading as possible. Whether your students struggle with the material or simply lack the motivation to read what's assigned, this report will help ensure your students read and understand important course material.
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Strategies for Teaching Large Classes
Sometimes you look out from the podium at the sea of faces looking back at you, and you wonder: Is this a class or a rock concert? Most educators would agree that their ideal teaching environment would be (to carry the musical theme a little further) the equivalent of an intimate, acoustic, coffee-shop performance.
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