Have you or your program conducted and completed the analysis steps? Then, you are ready to begin the Backwards Design process for creating your course and developing learning goals, objectives, and ...

Online courses, open educational resources (OER) and virtual schools are all the rage nowadays. Christine Voelker teaches other teachers how to build their own online courses. She’s the K–12 program ...

Rapid OnLine Learning (ROLL) involves the quick transfer of an on-the-ground course to a fully online environment. ROLL is not the same as planning ahead of time for online course development. Rather, ...

Most edtech conversations often focus on “tech”—the new apps, data systems, assessments and other technologies. But the “ed” discussions—particularly the art of teaching with these tools—are often ...

It is easy to view the task of drafting learning objectives as a mere administrative hurdle—one more box to check for a syllabus or a department review. However, when we move beyond the "paperwork" ...

Understanding how time “works” in online teaching and course design is often a challenge for online instructors, especially those new to online education. Four distinct yet related questions can ...

One of the goals of online learning collaborations is to expose students to real-world challenges they will face as citizens and professionals. This can not only build skills, but allow them to make ...

Overview: Focus on solving real problems and validating demand before creating contentStructure courses for clear outcomes ...

While university instructors around the world scramble to implement delivery of their courses online — a medium with which they may have only limited experience — they can learn from the field notes ...

For the past twenty years, I’ve heard this question asked many times about online education. It might be tempting for enthusiasts to say “of course it is good,” but I see this as a kind of “trick ...