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Helpful article detailing the reasons that instructor feedback is critical in online classes, along with strategies for how to provide feedback effectively.

Accessibility to E-Learning for Persons with Disabilities: Strategies, Guidelines, and Standards

Online Faculty have to manage and organize large amount of information. This article discusses various strategies to just that.

This article provides a list of ten strategies that online teachers need to develop to be efficient. Some very good points.

Great article Sue... I'm bookmarking it!

This abstract written by an engineering professor at Cal Poly Engineering offers research and support for a new trend in education called, "the Inside-Out Classroom." The abstract describes how the inside out classroom is a win-win-win strategy for teaching with technology. Instructors create "chunks" of core content in a digital, lecture-capture format. These resources are then stored online for students. These are short videos that students watch before attending class sessions. Students study core content for a course online on their own, and then complete assignments during in-class sessions.

Tools, Technology and Techniques To Keep Your Online Students Engaged In a face-to-face class, students have numerous opportunities to interact with their instructor and fellow students. Creating similar opportunities for collaboration in a web-based course is one of the biggest challenges of teaching online.

The article seems more relevant for K-12 although it may be used to enlighten educators who continue to embrace the sage on the stage methodology of teaching.

Great article! While reading the article I immediately thought about how young children are taught to memorize the ABC's and numbers through rote learning. Young children actively engaged with letters and numbers using concrete objects to guide them in their learning results in higher-order thinking.

Strategies for engaging more faculty to expand the use of technology in the classroom.

Online teaching is increasingly common at many types of higher education institutions, ranging from hybrid courses that offer a combination of in-person and online instruction, to fully online experiences and distance learning. The following resources provide guidelines for creating an online course, best practices for teaching online, and strategies for assessing the quality of online education.

Strategies for building a sense of community among online learners using the relatively simple technology of discussion forums.

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Strategies for using blogs as a writing tool in the classroom.

eLearn Magazine is a leading source of high-quality information on the uses of online learning and training strategies in a variety of contexts for K-12, higher education, and the corporate workforce.eLearn Magazine presents new technologies and approaches for creating, delivering, and supporting online instruction and workplace performance.

These online collaboration tools will enable students to communicate and collaborate fast and easily. This will sustain their interest, improve focus and they would be able to contribute in best possible way and get quality results in turn.

Great way to organize and set up tools for your class!

Guidelines for Building Games for Classrooms

Help is on the way!

I enjoyed reading this and use several of these already

Motivation plays a mayor role in Online teaching. I found this article helpful because it provides tips on three important aspects: social support, course content & instructors behavior.