While your LMS discussion tool helps to foster student interaction, you may feel limited by its structure and capabilities. It’s time to bring some variety into the way students interact with you and each other. Here are three ways to cultivate rich, real-life conversations in the discussion area of your online course: 1.…
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Loading...Discussions are vital in your online course–they build your online community by engaging your students and letting them interact with each other. And if you’ve yet to use a simple, intuitive discussion tool that complements your course, try Collaborize. Collaborize is a suite of free web tools–Collaborize Classroom, Collaborize Workplace, and Collaborize NPO–“that helps your […]
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Do you have a success story to share with the online education community? We want to help you do that. Now Accepting Guest Posts for March At the Faculty eCommons, we’re devoting March to mobile learning. That means we want to hear how you’ve creatively integrated mobile technology in your online course.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Academic Partnerships has released version 2.0 of the New Student Orientation (NSO). The NSO received an informal Quality Matters review and is designed to meet the Quality Matters Rubric standards. Reserved for partnering universities, the NSO introduces students to the institution’s learning environment before the first course of a program begins.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...We are pleased to announce that the staff of Nursing-School.com has named The University of Texas at Arlington’s College of Nursing one of the top 50 most social media friendly nursing schools of 2012. Recognizing that social media has become an effective tool for engaging and attracting prospective students, Nursing-School.com…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Shortly after Academic Partnerships announced the launch of MOOC2Degree, news of the initiative spread through Twitter and reached national news providers and the blogs of higher education thought leaders. MOOC2Degree, an initiative that converts the first course of an online program into a credit-bearing MOOC (massively open online course), allows potential students to try out […]
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This is the second of a three-part series on finding OER. Last week, we showed you how to use Google Advanced Search to find openly licensed content. This week, we’ll show you how to search for specific OER media like videos and images using a site’s CC search filter.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Go beyond enhancing an idea or a lesson—transform your students’ learning with a tool called ThingLink. ThingLink engages your students and drives curiosity and discovery—and it’s free. It’s an image platform that converts an image into an interactive experience by letting you connect music, video, text, images, shops, and more from around the web.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Rubrics are an excellent platform for outlining grading criteria because they accomplish two purposes: They allow instructors to grade consistently and objectively. They allow students to understand what constitutes an excellent score and exactly how to get one. But developing a thorough rubric can be time consuming—time that we seem to have less and less […]
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In our many years of partnering with and consulting online instructors, we quickly learned one of their biggest concerns: exam security. Knowing this, we’ve provided proven recommendations to help promote academic honesty and prevent cheating on online course exams, and more recently we showed you how fostering a community of practice is one of the […]
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