Online Teaching and Learning

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June 24, 2020

Free Webinar on Switching to Online Teaching

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Moving Online Huge Challenge for Kenya’s Higher Education
Higher Education Reform
May 12, 2020

Moving Online Huge Challenge for Kenya’s Higher Education

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Higher Education During COVID and Thereafter: Considerations for India and the Developing World
Higher Education Reform
May 12, 2020

Higher Education During COVID and Thereafter: Considerations for India and the Developing World

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AERA Offering Methods, Comms Professional Development Series
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May 8, 2020

AERA Offering Methods, Comms Professional Development Series

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Student Perspectives on the Online Teaching Landscape

Student Perspectives on the Online Teaching Landscape

Under the threat of coronavirus, many universities took early initiative to empty their campuses and transition to online classroom spaces. In the […]

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What’s That, You Want to Run an Online Experiment?

What’s That, You Want to Run an Online Experiment?

This post will explore some of the tools and platforms that can help with a key stage of the online research process: creating your survey or experiment. Specifically, we’ll be looking at options for running online experiments, with a slight focus on the more complex platforms – those designed to collect reaction time data (e.g., cognitive tasks), or to deliver complex experimental paradigms with a range of response types. We’ll examine the pros and cons of Qualtrics, Gorilla, Inquisit Web, as well as the good old DIY approach.

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Mark Carrigan Asks If We’re All Digital Scholars Now?

Mark Carrigan Asks If We’re All Digital Scholars Now?

The lockdown prompted by the COVID pandemic presents opportunities to rethink how academic practices take place in virtual environments. Mark Carrigan argues that if adopted uncritically, they could exacerbate existing inequalities in the use of digital technologies and open up new areas of academic life to surveillance and control.

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Here’s Four Weird Artifacts of Video Conferencing

Here’s Four Weird Artifacts of Video Conferencing

People have long noticed, however, that some peculiar things happen in videoconferencing. Norm Friesen, and educational technology researcher, has explored this and presents four odd things that happen when you’re engaged in a videoconference.

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Four Tech Tips For Students Whose Classes Moved Online

Four Tech Tips For Students Whose Classes Moved Online

Yes, there has been a mad rush to get classes online. If you’ve found yourself having to study your university course online, here are some ways to ensure you’re ready for your virtual experience.

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Five Tips for Designing Remote or Asynchronous Learning

Five Tips for Designing Remote or Asynchronous Learning

Rather than thinking about learning as something that always has to happen together in a classroom or even “together” online, virtual learning provides us with a wonderful opportunity to rethink personalized learning through asynchronous teaching. So here are some best practices from the K-12 milieu to consider as you create these learning experiences for your students.

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The Best Laid Plans… Qualitative Research Design During COVID-19

The Best Laid Plans… Qualitative Research Design During COVID-19

In this moment of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the ideas of emergent design and researcher and design responsiveness take on new meaning and import; they can serve, methods expert Sharon Ravitch argues, to connect more traditional qualitative methods with participatory frameworks and critical and humanizing methodologies.

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Active Online Learning

Active Online Learning

I was an early adopter for online teaching and learning. My experience teaching, developing courses, and consulting about e-learning morphed into an […]

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