Course Tour: Pathophysiology
Image b BarbaraALane on Pixabay. Used under a CC-0 licenseI always think it’s fun to get a peek at the inner working of other peoples’ courses. I got a question recently about how to incorporate student choice into courses, so I thought I’d record a short course tour with an focus on how I have […]
Continue readingTop 10 Tools for Learning – 2018
Image by artyangel on Pixabay. Used under a CC-0 licenseEvery year, Jane Hart compiles a list of the top tools for learning. People are invited to submit their top 10, and she compiles all of them into a big list of several hundred. I missed the deadline this year, but thought I’d write mine up […]
Continue readingWhat Does it Mean to be Student-Centered?
Image by Olga_968 on PixabayThere was a discussion at MUIH a few weeks about what it means for faculty to be student-centered. I couldn’t make it due to some technological problems, so I wanted to jot down a few thoughts on the topic. To me, being student-centered begins with your own beliefs and conceptualizations about students […]
Continue readingUsing PeerWise as a Teaching Tool
What is PeerWise?PeerWise is a free tool that guides students in creating multiple choice questions. They can also answer, rate for quality and difficulty, and comment on their peers’ questions anonymously. Students can view their peers’ comments and modify their questions as needed. Questions are searchable and can be tagged. PeerWise is gamified and assigns […]
Continue readingTwo Browser Tricks
As someone who works full-time, online, and from home, I’m always interested in tips and tricks that make my life a bit easier. Here are two tiny tweaks I’ve made recently that have made a big difference in how smoothly my computer work goes.Image by Angeleses on Pixabay; used under a CC-0 licenseHope these two […]
Continue readingPermanence and Online Courses
I’ve been working on a committee that is revising our University syllabus template. It sounds benign and straightforward. Unless you have ever been on a committee of any kind, in which case it probably sounds about like the tempest in a teapot that it is. Seriously, though, it requires examining so many assumptions and beliefs […]
Continue readingSummer ’18 Questionnaire Experiment
Every trimester, I find myself trying at least one new thing in my online courses. Last trimester, it was FlipGrid (will write that one up soon!) and I’ve got a few new things brewing for this coming trimester as well. The one I want to write about today is a relatively simple change inspired by something […]
Continue readingTakeaways from Meaningful Living and Learning in a Digital World Conference
I’ve just returned from a conference on Meaningful Living and Learning in a Digital World in Savannah, GA. I sometimes struggle with how/what to report after a conference. There is a temptation to write down everything, and then it gets overwhelming. Here I’ve decided to summarize just a few nuggets from the conference. Enjoy. (Bevin […]
Continue readingHow It Feels When an Online Instructor Is Absent
Taking classes online is probably the single most significant thing I’ve done to improve my own teaching. I wasn’t expecting this. Being an empathetic person, I thought I had done a reasonable job anticipating the student experience when I developed my own online classes. And as someone with many years of face-to-face classroom experience, both […]
Continue readingFunny Things
I haven’t blogged for a while. There are quite a few posts brewing – have been for months – and I haven’t been able to pull it together given how awful things have been in the world lately. I just don’t have the will or extra energy to take on non-essential tasks. Just like this puppy, […]
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