In my Getting to Know You post, I shared some ideas for course orientation and getting-to-know-you activities. Completing another first week of classes, I have…
I don’t know about others, but music is a big part of my life. It is a constant; it inspires, motivates, excites, reflects my feelings…
As part of a FIPSE grant project awarded to California State University, we (Kenny Wolf, Ellen Stevens, and I) were awarded a sub-contract to create…
We (Kenny Wolf, Ellen Stevens, and I) recently had an article published: Wolf, K., Dunlap, J.C., & Stevens, E. (2012). Ten things every professor should…
Recently, I was asked to respond to a new policy that proposed to raise the enrollment caps in our online graduate-level courses from 30 to…
I think it is nice to have guest speakers in my classes because they offer different perspectives on topics, and are often much better equipped…
This is a topic on the minds of many of my faculty colleagues (and me!) — how to get students to complete the assigned readings…
It is my pleasure to be a keynote panelist for the up-coming Ed-Media conference, tasked with discussing the state of instructional design. I was asked…
Patrick Lowenthal and I just had a new article published in Educause Review Online (working again with editor extraordinaire, Nancy Hays) called Intentional Web Presence:…
The following are some guidelines and suggestions I’ve found helpful when designing collaborative (groupwork and teamwork) activities for online courses.A couple of basic definitions Tenets…
