The Online Teaching Survival Guide: Simple and Practical Pedagogical Tips

practice 9 Combine core concept learning with customized and personalized learning. Best practice 10 Plan a good closing and wrap activity for the course. Best practice 11 Assess as you go by gathering evidences of learning. Best practice 12 Rigorously connect content to core concepts and learning outcomes. Best practice 13 Develop and use a conten

What is a content frame? Content frames are also called cognitive maps, visual graphics, and overviews. We like to use the term content frame because preparing a frame for a course helps learners get a holistic sense of a course. It presents a clear picture of what is to be learned in a course and what can be learned later as interests develop and

breadth and depth of thinking. Encourage comparisons and contrasts with the thinking of peers. For example, ask students to highlight how the perspectives of others differ from or overlap with the perspectives of others. These types of questions encourage fairness and breadth of thinking. Facilitation Strategies for Expansive

What were the strengths in this piece of work? What were the weaknesses? What stands out as memorable or interesting? Does the author provide sufficient evidence or argumentative support? Another resource that you may want to explore is by B. G. Davis, author of Tools for Teaching. An excerpt on grading practices is available at http://facstaff.nec

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Power Questioning Strategies Here are four power-questioning strategies that you can use immediately with only slight revision. These questions can refer to assigned readings, videos, or recommended resources. Ask students to provide evidence and justification of their thinking from course readings or other relevant resources. For example, one of t

any particular assignment would be even more useful. I read the short story at least twice. I revised this paper at least once. I spent at least five hours on this paper. I started work on this paper at least three days ago. I have tried hard to do my best work on this paper. I proofread this paper at least twice for grammar, spelling, and punctuat

Bloom's Cognitive Taxonomy Updated by Krathwohl, 2002

The website run by Jane Hart—the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies (C4LPT) in the UK. Jane also publishes a blog, Learning in the Modern Workplace, that adroitly addresses generic-learning issues as well: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/. The website by Kathy Schrock for apps and Bloom's taxonomy: http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps