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User Stories
The benefits of student group work are well documented:
- working together toward shared goals is motivating,
- the ability to work effectively with peers is an important skill and
- negotiating...
Comparisons
You can use a variety of tools for online small group discussions. We have outlined solutions, rated them for the effort required, and identified key considerations.
Good Practices
Uploading a large video file is cumbersome, and navigating a video recording of a 50-minute (or longer) class is challenging for students. By chunking your lecture, you can create smaller files. This is easy to do in Zoom...
Good Practices
Take a strategic approach to create a course community that helps students work together and learn from each other.
Challenge
Creating a course community in an online environment rarely happens on its own (...
IT Community Group
The Academic Technology Informal Community of Practice (ATiCoP) is a community of academic technologists and instructional designers working at the University of Minnesota who provide academic technology and design&nb
Resources
The central message of this book is that there are ways of creating learning experiences that can sufficiently impact the outcomes for students and instructors. The book offers a model of integrated course design that...