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June 18, 2025

Lights, Camera, Learn! Best Practices For Sharing Videos During Class

Reading Time: 6 minutesLet’s be honest—lecturing for 60 or 90 minutes straight is tough on students and faculty alike. Research shows that student attention begins to drop after about 20 minutes of passive listening (Bradbury, 2016). That’s why integrating active learning strategies is so important—and one of the most effective tools in your teaching toolkit is video. Whether it’s a short documentary clip,...

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August 23, 2023

7 Steps to Being “Present” as an Asynchronous Online Teacher

Reading Time: 3 minutesLearn about ways to guide, support, and assess student learning experiences in an asynchronous course.

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January 9, 2023

More Ways to Up Engagement in Your Synchronous Online Class

Reading Time: 5 minutesCreating Opportunities for Higher Levels of Engagement Students experience higher learning gains when they are taught through a more interactive classroom (Knight & Wood, 2005). In this first section, find some ideas to consider for structuring higher levels of participation and engagement during your online synchronous Zoom or MS teams class meeting time. Supporting and Managing Class Engagement Levels One...

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