Why? Setting the agenda for the class meeting will reinforce to students what topics will be covered, while also demonstrating how prepared you are as an instructor, and can also help establish your ...

Michelle Bitten isn’t a morning person, which made it hard for her to get to her 8 a.m. biology class at UC Berkeley three times a week. And when she did attend, she felt that the instructor tended to ...

In response to the rapid growth of online and hybrid learning in the CSU and the need to support the development of high-quality courses, the Chancellor’s Office established an Online Course Services ...

On a Thursday afternoon in February, I watched my students at the whiteboard. Gaby was drawing a series of cartoons and a list of the kinds of animals that had been sent into space by different ...

Understanding how time “works” in online teaching and course design is often a challenge for online instructors, especially those new to online education. Four distinct yet related questions can ...

Firstly, taping lectures provides considerable benefit to students enrolled in the course. Taped lectures allow students to review parts of the material they did not understand and provide another ...

Research is now showing what works — and what doesn’t — for students forced online by the pandemic. Better course design should be the next step. Digital technology and COVID-19 have transformed the ...