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Flickr Photo Courtesy Of: Eric Wignall Teaching Online Across Devices In online courses, discussion forums provide a place for student-to-student and instructor-to-student interaction. Within discussion forums, students share thoughts and review the ideas of others modeled through collegial, dialogic Read More >

Some great tips for online instructors to help them avoid burnout, and to help the students really get engaged in a discussion.

Helpful tips for students on how to take notes in a google doc.

American Institutes for Research The study found mixed effects of increased learning time programs on student academic and nonacademic outcomes. Findings suggest that the impacts of these programs depend on the settings, implementation features, and types of students targeted.

When Kristine Riley looks back on how she used to teach her students, she sees order and control. Her third, fourth and fifth grade gifted-and-talented classes had been structured and orderly, and students sat in designated seats. She had assigned the same tasks to every student and had hoped for roughly the same answers from all of them.

School leaders find once they begin to optimize their instructional models using anytime, anywhere learning, state policies that reinforce seat time become a barrier to innovative approaches delivering highly-personalized learning experiences for all students. Personalized learning is important because it holds the promise to create student agency, preparing all students for college, career and life.

When we require our students to search for their own online resources, it is important to teach them how to find material that is reputable and of high quality. I found this guide that might be useful in teaching these concepts to students.

Are students engaged? Have course objectives been met? What are students thinking? You won't know unless you ask. With its wide variety of survey types ranging from peer and self-evaluations, student evaluation of faculty, and faculty of student, CoursEval™ users can ask questions vital to the improvement of teaching and learning.

What is the best way to meet today's students "in the middle?" Kids today are more tech-savvy than ever before, and teachers are struggling to make sure that every student is educated according to their needs. From elementary to secondary school, students learn at different rates and have varying needs of social and educational interaction.

A good rubric can help students understand what is expected of them and it can help teachers score students' assignments consistently and efficiently. If your students are submitting assignments to you through Google Drive or Google Classroom, you may find yourself looking for a way to create and use rubrics without having to leave your Google Drive account to give feedback to your students.

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. Yet, opportunities for meaningful synchronous and asynchronous interaction are plentiful, provided you design and facilitate your online course in the correct manner and with the proper tools.

Nice tips for improving student peer review projects. Written for a face-to-face classroom, but most of these can be applied to an online setting.

This is a cloud based music software that I use in my music classroom. Students can create their own music and share it with others. There is a collaboration feature that allows students and teachers to work together on a song. One of my favorite tools is the podcasting feature. My students instead of written summative tests create a series of podcast episodes where they speak about what they have learned, and they can collaborate together and even have guests on their episodes. This podcasting feature is great for students who struggle with writing and are better with speaking.

scroll down to "Impact Portraits" to see findings from a 16 month investigation into the impact of Chromebooks and G Suite on student outcomes.

The 2014 National Teacher of the Year, Sean McComb, works at a pretty average-looking high school. Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts isn't a school with extra funding or special dispensation to try something totally different. Students sit at desks, they rotate through periods and, in many ways, the school hasn't revolutionized what it looks like to attend school.

Although students are evermore connected to the social web, many of these networks remain out-of-class digital playgrounds where students congregate. In a 2014 survey of 1,000 teachers, just one in five said they use social media regularly with students. Of course, it can be a challenge to incorporate social media into lessons.

This article Examines whether the college catalog and language therein constitute a legally binding contract between college and student. Categorizes catalog litigation by cases involving dismissal, granting of degrees, tuition, admission, and course offerings. The courts appear to agree that the student-college relationship is contractual in nature and that the relevant contractual terms are set forth in the catalogs. (202 references) (MLH) This is extremely timely given that all MET students must realign to the new AECT standards (and were told 5 days into the start of the semester!)