How Can I Build Community in My Online Classes?
Discover effective, easy-to-implement techniques to help instill in your online students the cooperation, trust, respect, and enthusiasm that are hallmarks of strong learning communities.
Category: Mentor Commons
How Can I Inspire Creative Confidence in the Classroom?
You’ll learn how to use 21st-century approaches and techniques, like transactive thinking and creativity tools, to help your students imagine, innovate, and implement.
How Can I Leverage Force Multipliers in the Classroom?
Get help with all the things that matter to you: grading, teaching, interacting with students, and kindling students interest in learning.
How Do I Design Innovative Assignments to Foster Learning in the Online Classroom?
Discover a wealth of assignment and activity options suited to online classes, focused on helping students achieve the learning goals you’ve set.
How Can I Add Interactivity to My Online Content?
Discover the two types of memory, the key roles they play in learning, and utilize the tools to prepare your own interactive online content.
What Three Things Should I Do Each Week to Engage Online Students?
Utilize ready-to-implement ideas for day-to-day interactions that make a real difference in the way your online students engage with your class content.
How Do I Align Learning Objectives with Technology Using Backward Design?
Learn how to peel back the layers of your teaching challenges and work backwards from your learning objectives to your choice of technology solutions.
How Do I Create and Implement Microlectures?
Gain a clear picture of how microlectures can help you deliver a meaningful learning experience, foster a personal connection with students, and more.
How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Objective Items?
Receive step-by-step instruction for designing objective items to assess particular cognitive operations in critical thinking skills for a wide range of disciplines.
How Can I Design Critical Thinking into My Course?
This program identifies both general and discipline-specific critical thinking skills and how to turn these skills into good student learning outcomes.
How Can I Structure a Flipped Lesson?
Learn the structure and find the confidence to flip a lesson in a class you already teach or a new class you are teaching.