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Google launched an open source course building web application for developing online classes. The barebones website is a lightweight way to bring course material online, track student engagement (with web traffic and surveys), and evaluate performance.

What causes students to stick with online courses? Quick review of ongoing research...

"Many experienced faculty members have developed a sense of what will and won't work within their discipline; however, when faced with developing a new course or redesigning a course to incorporate more active learning, instructional technologies, distance education, core curriculum demands, and the like, they struggle with how to approach the course design."

Are you looking for some quick ideas for ways to integrate writing into your course, tips for responding to student writing, actual in-class activities, tips for using peer response in your course, or advice on preventing plagiarism? Then, check out our resources on the Writing Across the Curriculum writing and assessment wiki.

Easy A's may be even easier to score these days, with the growing popularity of online courses. Tech-savvy students are finding ways to cheat that let them ace online courses with minimal effort, in ways that are difficult to detect.

What do you think of using students' grades in later sequential courses as a measure of instructors' success in previous courses? The research of an Ohio State professor is featured in this article!

Course creates areas of digital disconnection to help students regain their sense of focus

This is a great service for making readings available to your students within Carmen. The library will load them into your course AND deal with copyright issues.

Courses are always, already part of a curriculum. We need to be sure we meet our obligations to the bigger program.

Stories of innovative teaching. One of the ten profiled, John Boyer, is also discussed in the book "Cheating Lessons" by James Lang, for how his assessment methods minimize cheating.

Teaching for transfer in the context of composition courses.

There's big talk these days about "big data" in education-looking for patterns of behavior as students click through online classrooms and using the insights to improve instruction. One start-up company that manages online discussion forums for thousands of courses recently performed its first major analysis of behavioral trends among students, and found what its leaders say amounts to advice for instructors.

"My accessibility statement had always appeared toward the end of my syllabus, almost as an afterthought, or tacked-on necessity. Now, my universal learning statement appears near the top of my syllabus, immediately following my learning outcomes. This placement signals to the students that universal learning is a centerpiece of my pedagogy. Everything else in my teaching follows from that key principle."

This article is used in our Course Design Institutes and provides a creative look at critical thinking as related to Perry's cognitive development theory

Subject librarians are an untapped resource in most libraries. They can do so much more than just teach your students how to use a database.

How much can a half-semester course shift a lifetime of experience?