Academic Integrity

• Academic Integrity - Prevent cheating, plagiarism, copyright violations
• Code of Conduct (pdf) - link to this in course syllabus in Canvas and/or Etudes

Assessment

• Student Self-Assessment
• Authentic Assessment Toolbox

Online Pedagogy and Teaching

• Best Practices

  • Effective Practices for Online Courses (pdf) - Essential and recommended components to make an online course effective
  • Best Practices - List of resources
  • Best Practices in Online Teaching video (~56 mins)
• Student Motivation and Engagement in Online Courses

Retention

• Retention In Online Courses: Surviving The First Week - "The learning environment must be easy to navigate, feel psychologically nonthreatening, and lead to the least amount of frustration as possible. This implies fewer LMS buttons and fewer choices at the beginning of the course so the learner does not feel overwhelmed and wondering where to start."
• 7 Strategies to Make Your Online Teaching Better
  1. Let the technology help you, not hinder you.
  2. Anticipate the difficulties.
  3. Incorporate synchronous opportunities.
  4. Give extra feedback. Then give more.
  5. Prove you are not a dog.
     
     
     "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." - "Internet dog" by Wikipedia
  6. Provide support for self-regulation.
  7. Encourage play.
• Improving Student Retention (pdf) - The key to improving student retention and persistence is to focus on improvement at two levels: the institutional level and the student level.
• Big Meta-Analysis Says Four Teaching Strategies Are Most Effective For Low-Income Students - Meta-analysis focusing on effecting teaching strategies specifically for students from a low 'socio-economic status.'
  
  1. Tutoring
  2. Feedback and Progress Monitoring
  3. Small Group Instruction
  4. Cooperative Learning
• 2015 Student Retention and College Completion Practices Benchmark Report - Report examines most and least effective practices for improving undergraduate student retention and college completion rates, based on a national poll of campus officials in spring 2015.
• Prevent Student Drops - Online and in-person orientations, welcome message, individual contact, student success, completion, and retention...

Self-paced Tutorials and Seminars

Journals and Blogs

• Journals and Blogs - Links to journals, articles, and blogs about distance learning.