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"Included are a dozen strategies for improving online student retention for administrators and faculty."

"Apowersoft Online Audio Recorder allows you to record audio online, free of charge, on Windows OS or Mac PC. It's easy to operate and lets you record any sound that you can hear. It allows you to record audio files from various audio inputs - System Sound, Microphone, and both System Sound and Microphone."

The following researched based best practices are recommended to demonstrate quality in online course design. In November 2010 the Distance Education Committee developed and approved an online course review tool for individual faculty and departments to use in identifying minimum course requirements and online course readiness.

"Any institution, he maintained, demonstrates its quality in five inter-related areas - learning effectiveness, access, scale (capacity enrollment achieved through cost-effectiveness and institutional commitment), faculty satisfaction, and student satisfaction. These five have become OLC's Five Pillars of Quality Online Education, the building blocks which provide the support for successful online learning. "

"In an interview with Online Classroom, Frisch talked about the factors that she believes help her achieve such high retention rates."

"While the delivery of on-line instructional courses in higher education institutions is flourishing, it is the faculty who play the key role in its successful implementation (Betts, 1998; Rockwell, Schauer, Fritz, & Marx, 1999; Willis, 1994; Wilson, 1998). Limited research has shown that a number of circumstances influence whether or not faculty choose to teach via on-line. Since faculty are pivotal to the success of online instruction, this study explored their backgrounds, concerns, and their on-line teaching practices. The information that is provided will update decision-makers of the current needs and concerns of on-line instructors so an effective distance-learning program can be fostered."

Online scheduling tools

Rubric for evaluating online courses

"With Soundtrap you make music online. You can plug in your own instrument, use the software instruments available in Soundtrap or just record a song directly with your computer microphone. It's super-easy!"

online course rubric

"A PLN is a reciprocal network that you create to learn from, connect with, gather information or resources, create with and finally share what you have learned. A PLN can occur in your school, face-to-face, online, at conferences or through reading, reflecting and sharing."

"Grade online assignments in under a minute! Get reporting and analysis on student performance! Email students their scores." Google forms add-on.

Compress your photos using our free online image compressor tool, which preserves the quality of JPEG, JPG, PNG, SVG, GIF, and WEBP image files.

"Use these tools to help you initially edit your work before"

Powerful mind-mapping software that allows for online collaborative work. Education accounts (with limited features) are free.

This is a quick and easy (and FREE) resource for generating QR codes. Add QR codes to handouts (e.g., syllabus, assignments, etc.), flyers, posters, etc. to direct student to website content.

By being ad-supported, AnyMeeting offers its services at no cost to users, making it an ideal deal for small businesses on tight budgets. If you are looking for free alternative to WebEx, GoToMeeting and others, anymeeting is the way to go.