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Best Practices in Engaging Online Learners Through Active and Experiential Learning Strategies
Best Practices in Engaging Online Learners Through Active and Experiential Learning Strategies is a practical guide for all instructors and instructional designers working in online or blended learning environments who want to provide a supportive, engaging, and interactive learner experience. This book explores the integration of active and experiential learning approaches and activities including gamification, social media integration, and project- and scenario-based learning, as they relate to the development of authentic skill-building, communication, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills in learners. Readers will find guidelines for the development of participatory peer-learning, cooperative education, and service learning opportunities in the online classroom. In addition, the authors provide effective learning strategies, resources, and tools that align learner engagement with course outcomes.
Teaching the 4Cs with Technology
Of the 21st century skills vital for success in education and the workplace, "the 4Cs"-critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity—have been highlighted as crucial competencies. This book shows how teachers can more purposefully integrate technology into instruction to facilitate the practice and mastery of each of the 4Cs along with other learning objectives. It’s packed with practical and engaging strategies that will transform the way students experience learning. Whether you want to try something new in your own classroom or discuss ideas as part of a professional learning community, you’ll find lots to explore in Teaching the 4Cs with Technology: How do I use 21st century tools to teach 21st century skills?
Increasing Engagement in Online Learning (Quick Reference Guide)
Online instruction experts Stephanie Smith Budhai and Laura McLaughlin offer advice on how to increase engagement and participation in a digital or hybrid learning space.
Culturally Responsive Teaching Online and in Person
Let your care for students shine through--wherever they learn. Teaching in the 21st century means adapting to online teaching and responding to urgent issues of equity, inclusion, and social justice. This book merges these skills. Combining an interactive action planner with teacher preparation and professional development, it introduces the Dynamic Equitable Learning Environments (DELE) framework, which can help you quickly pivot instruction to ensure equitable, inclusive learning experiences in any educational setting. Other features include Demonstrative, inspirational, and culturally responsive practical approaches Reflection questions, anti-bias exercises, and critical thinking activities Interactive items, online resources, and readings Action plan templates to pursue after completing the book
Transforming Learning Through Tangible Instruction
Transforming Learning Through Tangible Instruction offers a transformative, student-centered approach to higher education pedagogy that integrates embodied cognition into classroom practice. Evidence across disciplines makes clear that people learn with their bodies as well as their brains, but no previous book has provided evidence-based guidance for adopting and refining its practice in colleges and universities. Collecting findings from cognitive science, educational neuroscience, learning theories, and beyond, this volume’s unique approach—radical yet practical, effective yet low-cost—will have profound implications for higher education faculty and administrators engaged in teaching and learning. Seven concise chapters explore how physical objects, hands-on making, active construction, and other elements of body and environment can enhance comprehension, memory, and individual and collaborative learning.
Online and Engaged
Nearly a third of all college students are enrolled in at least one online course, and that number continues to grow. Meeting students where they are means bringing student services and supports to online learners by creating innovative ways to carry out traditional student affairs functions. This book shares best practices, case studies, examples, experiences, and ideas for supporting online learners through their college experience. The first section focuses on preparing for the everchanging higher education landscape and situating student affairs in the 21st century. The authors address how to support learners taking hybrid and fully online courses within virtual learning environments and...
Higher Education by Design
Faculty in higher education are disciplinary experts, but they seldom receive formal training in teaching. Higher Education by Design uses the principles of design thinking to bridge this gap through practical examples and step-by-step instructions based on educational theory and best practices in pedagogical and curricular development. This book offers practical advice for effective teaching and instruction, interdisciplinary curricular collaborations, writing course syllabi, creating course outcomes and objectives, planning assessments, and building curricular content. Whether you are a seasoned professor or new instructor, the strategies in this book can improve your practice as an educator.
Supporting Online Students
Supporting Online Students shows how effective and efficiently delivered support services improve academic success and course retention for online learners. Drawing on a decade's worth of research, Anita Crawley describes the scope of services from admissions and registration to advising and student engagement. The book includes guidelines and standards, planning and implementation, innovative practices, and describes specialized services needed by particular online student groups. "Effective student support is the single most important factor in sustaining high-quality online learning programs. Anita Crawley presents the most effective guide to achieving that success. Her book is a blueprin...
Pivoting Your Instruction
This practical guide for college and university instructors explains how to design and prepare your courses to be adaptable for a full range of learning environments—whether that’s online, hybrid, or face-to-face traditional campus teaching. Author Bruce M. Mackh unpacks a comprehensive instructional design approach to curriculum and instruction that is suitable for all modalities and allows you to pivot quickly, regardless of how the course will be delivered. Chapters provide quick takeaways and cover challenges and opportunities, adapting high-impact practices across instructional models and fostering a culture of care. The book also encourages faculty members to adopt a student-centered mindset as they employ the principles of Design Thinking, User Experience Design, Instructional Design, and Learning Experience Design to create a high-quality course. The strategies at the heart of this book will help both new and experienced faculty save time, ensure instructional continuity during transitions, and achieve excellence in teaching.
Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI)
A proven method for better teaching, better learning, and better test scores! This teacher-friendly book presents a step-by-step approach for implementing the Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) approach in diverse classrooms. Based on educational theory, brain research, and data analysis, EDI helps teachers deliver effective lessons that can significantly improve achievement all grade levels. The authors discuss characteristics of EDI, such as checking for understanding, lesson objectives, activating prior knowledge, concept and skills development, and guided practice, and provide: Clearly defined lesson design components Detailed sample lessons Easy-to-follow lesson delivery strategies Scenarios that illustrate what EDI techniques look like in the classroom
