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

Edsurge

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?

Edsurge

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?

Edsurge

Some of that can be attributed to the pandemic and the loss of foundational academic and social skills during online learning. But experts say that as colleges admit increasingly diverse classes of students, their needs have changed in ways that colleges arent prepared for.

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How the pandemic accelerated the need for interactive learning spaces

Neo LMS

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. Instead, teachers must look ahead and find the methods and approaches that work and can sustainably support students under any circumstances. Read more: Answering the Why?

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An overview of active Learning.

Linways Technologies

Class Discussion : Class discussion is one of the most common strategies that promote active learning. Open-ended discussions always keep students engaged. Flipped Classroom is a widely used method for implementing the active learning process. The students can experiment and experience with this active learning strategy.

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Learning How to Blend Online and Offline Teaching

Edsurge

Kilgore urges senior academic officers to recognize that moving from face-to-face lectures in conventional classrooms to active learning online may not be easy. She encourages colleges and universities to acknowledge that quality online learning does not happen merely by placing instructors in front of live cams on Zoom.

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How to Keep Student Minds Open to New Worldviews Even When Campus Is Closed

Edsurge

Interfaith friendships seem to form when students engage with peers of other worldviews both formally and informally, such as while socializing or using a shared interfaith space on campus. In short, students make interfaith friendships through collegiate interactions, but can these friendship connections be made and sustained online?

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