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Click Here for Book Review Abstract: This book offers a much-needed resource for faculty and professional staff to build quality online courses by focusing on quality standards in instructional design and transparency in learning outcomes in the design of online courses. It includes effective instructional strategies to motivate online learners, help them become more self-directed, and develop academic skills to persist and successfully complete a program of study online. It also includes a more in-depth understanding of instructional design principles to support faculty as they move their face-to-face courses to the online environment.
Journal Issue.
If you're willing to move outside your familiar and comfortable way of teaching and try team teaching, you'll find many challenges but also many rewards.
I had absolutely no idea how to shift from the role of student to teacher. The School offered no guidance, apparently expecting me to know by osmosis how to teach.
More and more, graduate students are seeking quality training in leadership skills as well as in teaching and research.
The backlash against MOOCs and online learning in higher education has begun.
The article looks at illusions of rigor we often accept in teaching our courses and what in fact are more realistic approaches that can provide the same high quality outcomes.
The article looks at illusions of rigor we often accept in teaching our courses and what in fact are more realistic approaches that can provide the same high quality outcomes.
Student ratings of instruction are hotly debated on many college campuses. Unfortunately these debates are often uninformed by the extensive research on this topic.
Podcast Series. This podcast series includes interviews with BYU faculty as well as excerpts from invited speakers. We offer them in multiple formats to make it easy to watch and listen at work, home, or on your iPod. You might even choose to use a clip from one of the presentations in your teaching.
Wabash Center Staff Contact
Sarah Farmer, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Wabash Center
farmers@wabash.edu