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Organizing a Class Session & Helping Students See Connections
Organizing a class requires two skills: 1) the ability to organize a class through the syllabus and the sequencing of material and 2) the ability to help students see connections and relationships....
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Rewarding Student Participation and Providing Feedback
In responding to student questions there are a number of guidelines which can positively reinforce good student responses and facilitate further discussion. Praise the student in a strong positive way...
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Teaching for Learning
Almost all instructors will need to lecture some of the time. An effective lecture can stimulate and involve students. A boring lecture becomes another requirement to be suffered through. Lectures are...
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Converting Documents to an LMS Ready Format
Where possible, convert textual information to HTML files for posting to the LMS (Learning Management System). This will reduce the number of plugins, software packages and hyperlinks that will have to...
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Tips for Increasing Student-Faculty Interaction Outside of Class
Student-faculty interaction outside of class can take many forms: office hours either in-person or on-line, e-mail exchanges, serving as an advisor for a club, volunteer opportunities, and small group...
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Getting Students Involved
Students stay interested and learn more from the class when instructors use many different techniques to involve them in the learning process. These range all the way from very short and simple...
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Updated ID Resource Site
I have not been posting much on this blog recently because posting time has been used to upgrade my Instructional Design website and revamp the content. The site contains a number of tools and...
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Tips for Navigating Online Collaboration in Google Doc
Think about the interface. The specific word processing software we use — the pen, paper, or keyboard — changes the nature of our writing. We write differently depending on our instrument, on whether...
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