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we offer seven principles based on research on good teaching and learning in colleges and universities. Good practice in undergraduate education: encourages contact between students and faculty, develops reciprocity and cooperation among students, encourages active learning, gives prompt feedback, emphasizes time on task, communicates high expectations, and respects diverse talents and ways of learning.

The paper identifies a set of universal instructional design (UID) principles appropriate to distance education (DE) and tailored to the needs of instructional designers and instructors teaching online. These principles are then used to assess the accessibility level of a sample online course and the availability of options in its LMS platform (Moodle) to increase course accessibility.

Teaching and Learning principles from Carnegie Mellon

The five key principles about learning on which Moodle has been and will continue to be developed.

Universal Instructional Design Principles for Moodle Tanya Elias Athabasca University, Canada May 2010

Adapted from-and extending-the recommendations found in Chickering and Gamson's, Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991), here are some of the most commonly agreed upon best practices for course design and development. They can be applied to both traditional and online courses, however some are particularly crucial to online course development.

"Can online discussion be structured to achieve a high level of effective student participation without an increase on staff workload? This resource considers structuring sustainable online discussion by applying Bill Pelz's (2004) principle to online discussion: "Get the students to do (most) of the work." "

An overview of instructional design principles that may be used to guide beginning instructors in the creation of online learning courses and materials that support learner engagement and knowledge construction.

We're seeing a huge anti-MOOC backlash now, but never saw an anti-OCW backlash. Why? Perhaps because even though to the public mind they're doing essentially the same things - publishing large collections of curated, high quality, freely available course content - OCW managed the public's expectations better.

Critical point: Manage expectations or it will fail

The lessons learned at Vanderbilt are consistent with lessons learned in other MOOCs offered elsewhere. The lessons include, briefly: Teaching online is a team effort. There's more to MOOCs than lecture videos. Open content is our friend The cognitive diversity seen in MOOCs is far greater than in closed courses MOOC students are well-motivated students Cognitive Diversity + Intrinsic Motivations = Crowdsourcing Success MOOC students can be producers as well as consumers of information Accommodating students on different time tables can be challenging Instructor presence is important, even in a MOOC Good stuff; good article.

by Arthur W. Chickering and Stephen C. Ehrmann 1996