Category: Online Courses

10 Ways to Improve Blended Learning Course Design in 2014

The CFEI held a Faculty Focus online seminar, 10 Ways to Improve Blended Learning Course Design in 2014 on 8/21/14 from 1:00-2:00pm at the CFEI Conference Room (AGIT222). Faculty, it is not too late to participate! If you are interested in accessing the online resources for this past seminar, please register on the new CFEI …

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Five Things Online Students want from Faculty

Envision the online student sitting alone, in their home, staring at a computer. Their only communication with the professor is on the computer screen. With this image in your mind, build your course prior to the start of the term with organized and comprehensive content. The first week of class, the faculty should communicate seven …

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Sloan C Emerging Tech Conference-Faculty Focus Session

The Faculty Center was proud to sponsor Tina Lancaster and Denise Pheils to attend the 7th Annual Sloan C Emerging Technologies for Online Learning in April.  The conference included attendees from across higher education, including faculty, instructional designers, educational technologists, and administrators. On May 8th,  there will be an focus session open to faculty where Professors …

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Google Tips: I didn't know Google could do that…

Google tips

At some point, Google stopped being just a search engine and became… Well… A compendium of useful technology services you never knew you needed, but can’ live without. From Gmail, to YouTube, to Webmaster Tools and all points in between, Google has a vast, and sometimes nebulous, offering of services, resources and applications to help …

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Textbook Publishers and Learning Management Systems: Do We Even Want Them to Get Along?

An article in The Chronicle posted last month online, “Textbook Publishers Push to Provide Full Learning Experience,” posed an interesting question about the future of online teaching and learning: how immersive do we truly want our technology systems to be? It is not a jump to say that, technologically, products which are designed to work …

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