Tips for Instructor and Course Introductions
There are two key introductions for every online course: your personal intro and an introduction to the course. These can certainly be combined into one, but remember to keep it…
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Assignment 101: Evaluating Web Sites Using CAPOW
How many times has a student submitted an assignment using a random, obscure or, even worse, a plagiarized Web site as a source? It probably happens more frequently than realized.…
Read ArticleWhen Should You E-mail Students in Your Online Class?
The dynamics of communication between instructors and their students have changed significantly over the last couple of decades. Before the advent of cell phones and the ubiquitous availability of the…
Critical Thinking in the Online Classroom
In the Winter 2018 edition of The Classical Teacher, Martin Cothran penned a short piece titled “The Critical Thinking Skills Hoax” in which he addressed a prevalent buzzword in American…
Ensuring Students Are Thinking and Understanding in the Online Classroom
Humans are born with the capacity and inclination to think. Nobody teaches us how to think. We do it effortlessly every day. Because thinking plays a prominent role in our…
Assignment 101: Evaluating Web Sites Using CAPOW
How many times has a student submitted an assignment using a random, obscure or, even worse, a plagiarized Web site as a source? It probably happens more frequently than realized.…
Learning and Teaching Styles
Theories that students learn and study differently are based on the idea that people have unique approaches to processing information. A learning style is a person’s preferred method of gathering,…