Get Ready for CCC Digital Learning Day
Get Ready for CCC Digital Learning Day Digital learning is anchored in connection and sharing. That’s why @ONE (Online Network of […]
Tweeting Your Way to Professional Growth
Tweeting Your Way to Professional Growth This post is the third in a series about principles in teaching and learning with contributions by Jim Julius and Lene Whitley-Putz. Social media […]
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Online Teaching and Course Design
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Online Teaching and Course Design This post is the second of a series about principles in teaching and learning with contributions by Jim Julius […]
Using Principles to Guide Professional Practice
Using Principles to Guide Professional Practice This post is the first of a series about principles in teaching and learning with contributions by Lené Whitley-Putz and Michelle Pacansky-Brock. In early December, […]
Using Video to Communicate Instructions Clearly
Using Video to Communicate Instructions Clearly Video is powerful communication tool for online teaching. Instructors often naturally gravitate towards using video to deliver presentations to their online students, but […]
Online Teaching Confession from a Convert
I mentally stomped my feet when our counseling faculty recommended that, to better accommodate students, I offer my English 101 course, which is contextualized for first responders and administration of […]
How Snapchat, Zombies, and Twitter Can Humanize Learning
How Snapchat, Zombies, and Twitter Can Humanize Learning Recently, I sat down with Mike Smedshammer from Modesto Junior College to discuss his thoughts about humanizing online learning. In our […]
Give ‘Em a Clear Learning Path
Give ‘Em a Clear Learning Path Not all online courses look the same. That may seem a rather obvious point but it’s one that instructors may not realize regularly presents […]
Managing Microagressions for More Inclusive Online Learning
I am sure some of us have a story (or 6 or 20) describing incidences in which a teacher or another student made us feel inferior, or out of place, […]
Drinking From the Fire Hose… Or Making it Real: In Support of Accessibility in Online Education
Hello! We are Liezl Madrona and Jayme Johnson, and we support faculty with accessibility in the Online Education Initiative. We are happy to bring you the first in an ongoing series […]
Video Captioning Conundrum
Captioning instructional videos can be a time-consuming process. But it doesn’t have to be! Here are a couple of “What if…” scenarios with some solutions to help you create an […]
Visually-Oriented Discussions with Consistent Instructions
Discussions are an important part of fostering student-student interactions in an online course. After completing the OEI Online Course Review process, Shannon Van Zant, who teaches History at Columbia College, […]