Articles on Teaching Students

Below please find a few recent, relevant articles on teaching and working with students. Enjoy.

“Creating a Sense of Instructor Presence in the Online Classroom” by Rob Kelly (1/7/14)
From Faculty Focus:
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/creating-a-sense-of-instructor-presence-in-the-online-classroom/

“Three Strategies for Creating Meaningful Learning Experiences” by Steven A. Meyers (2/24/14)
From Faculty Focus:
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-teaching-strategies/three-strategies-creating-meaningful-learning-experiences/

“Father Guido Was Right” by Rob Weir (2/28/14)
From Inside Higher Ed:
http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2014/02/28/essay-making-midcourse-changes-teaching-plans

“Top 10 Rules for Developing Your First Online Course” by John Orlando (3/3/14)
From Faculty Focus:
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/top-10-rules-developing-first-online-course/

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To Assist Productivity

This week, we’ve included a couple of links featuring apps helpful to one’s personal and professional productivity -- enjoy:

“Educational Productivity Apps: January 2014” by Robbie Melton
From WCET’s website:
http://wcet.wiche.edu/learn/educational-productivity-apps

“7 Productivity Apps for the New Year” by Liz Homan and Emily VanBuren (1/23/14)
From Inside Higher Ed’s “GradHacker” blog:
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/gradhacker/7-productivity-apps-new-year

Online Learning: National Survey Results

Below is a link to the Sloan Consortium’s newly released annual survey; the study, now in its eleventh year, provides interesting statistics while being “aimed at answering fundamental questions about the nature and extent of online education”:

“Grade Change: Tracking Online Education in the United States, 2013”

2014 Predictions: Articles

Enjoy these articles in which experts analyze the new year’s possibilities in online learning and higher ed (MOOCs loom large in these pieces!):

“Innovation in 2014: Welcome to the Evolution” by Jeffrey Selingo (1/13/14)
From The Chronicle:
http://chronicle.com/article/Innovation-in-2014-Welcome-to/143971/

“Anant Agarwal Predicts the Campus of the Future [CES 2014]” by Roger Riddell (1/10/14)
From Education Dive:
http://www.educationdive.com/news/anant-agarwal-predicts-the-campus-of-the-future-ces-2014/213639/

“What’s Next for Education? Answer: Follow-the-Learner” by Debbie Morrison (1/5/14)
From Online Learning Insights blog:
http://onlinelearninginsights.com/2014/01/05/whats-next-for-education-answer-follow-the-learner/

“6 Ways Government Could Impact Education in 2014” by Daniel Shumski (12/11/13)
From Education Dive:
http://www.educationdive.com/news/6-ways-government-could-impact-education-in-2014/203839/

“Colleges Can Still Save Themselves. Here’s How” by Jeffrey Selingo (12/2/13)
From The Chronicle:
http://chronicle.com/article/Colleges-Can-Still-Save/143305/

“What’s in Store for MOOCs in 2014?” by Daniel Shumski (11/27/13)
From Education Dive:
http://www.educationdive.com/news/whats-in-store-for-moocs-in-2014/198600/

Happy New Year from CCCOnline

Best wishes for happiness and good health in 2014! 

As we ring in the new, we’ve included a few articles that look back at this past year: 

“Our Top 13 Teaching and Learning Articles of 2013” by Mary Bart (12/20/13)
From Faculty Focus:
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-and-learning/our-top-13-teaching-and-learning-articles-of-2013/

“What Books Did You Read in 2013?” by Joshua Kim (12/19/13)
From Inside Higher Ed’s “Technology and Learning” blog:
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/what-books-did-you-read-2013

“The Online Education Revolution Drifts Off Course” by Eric Westervelt (12/31/13)
From NPR (looks back at 2013 in online education):
http://www.npr.org/2013/12/31/258420151/the-online-education-revolution-drifts-off-course