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Balance the Delivery

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After a year of blended instruction, or a combination of face-to-face learning and online learning, schools are questioning the amount of time students spend in front of screens. However, because of the growth of online learning platforms, even the basic content has moved to a virtual environment.

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Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive?

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Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online. Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. These design choices have noticeable implications.

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Colleges Have Embraced Online Learning. Will That Open Remote Teaching Opportunities for Faculty?

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Most anticipate the growing centrality of online learning in university life. As a longtime proponent of online higher education, I thought I’d take a stab at imagining a couple of effects digital education might have on teaching and learning in the college classroom. Liberating campus-bound faculty.

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Can Colleges Do More to Help Students Succeed?

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Some of that can be attributed to the pandemic and the loss of foundational academic and social skills during online learning. All Radford students have the option to take University 101, a first-year seminar class that prepares them for the transition to college, both academically and socially.

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What’s next? Lessons from the lockdown on traditional education

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The biggest shift that we’re seeing is that online education has the potential to drop its “online” part and that more and more people will see it for what it is: simply education. Online learning is student-centered by default, having its own advantages and pitfalls. That could also be true for seminars and lab projects.

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Tips for incentivizing your teachers team while working remotely

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This is all the more relevant to educators, who will need to be leading lessons, seminars and one-on-one study sessions on a daily basis. Mix things up with online learning resources & special events.

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How the pandemic accelerated the need for interactive learning spaces

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And while the beginnings were difficult and we’re still facing a lot of uncertainty, the frantic switch to online learning is no longer helping anyone. Indeed, one of the main problems that teachers have faced regarding online learning is student engagement. Read more: Answering the Why?