The Secret to Beating the Forgetting Curve
Our brains are wired to start forgetting new information as soon as we learn it. Luckily, there are several ways to stay ahead of the forgetting curve.
How to Increase Student Engagement Using Polls and Surveys
If students don't engage with their lessons, they won't retain the information long-term. Polls are one surprising and easy tactic to spark engagement and boost lesson retention.
How to Help Struggling Adult Learners
How can you help an online student who's struggling? These tips will help you improve your students' learning outcomes while avoiding some awkward situations.
How to Plan a New Online Course, Part 2: Goals and Assessments
In Part 2 of our guide, we help you build proper assessments into your next course, develop an effective syllabus, and manage your collaborative development so you'll stay on time and budget.
How to Make Sure Your Course Meets Its Learning Objectives
How do you know your course or training meets the required learning objectives? The answer is a 4-step process that's as easy as A-B-C-D.
How to Measure Online Course Effectiveness
Learn the simple 4-step process for evaluating how effective your courses or training modules really are, and how to spot problems in their delivery.
How to Create Effective Test Questions
Since online learning often separates teachers from learners across time and distance, we rely on evaluations – in the form of tests, quizzes and assessments – to judge each student's successful comprehension of the content (and to judge how well the course designers presented their information). But what makes a good test question? Is it [...]
How to Maximize Collaboration in Instructional Design
When it comes to project management, finding smart ways to keep your team focused and on schedule is what leads to creating a finished product that your whole team can be proud of.
Best Practices for Improving Online Courses Using Student Feedback
We offer 4 tips for getting the most useful feedback from your students, and 4 more tips for using that feedback to continually improve your online courses.
Which Strategy Is Better: Frequent Quizzing or End-of-Milestone Quizzing?
Is it better to quiz your students frequently throughout a lesson, or to test them once at the end? The results of multiple studies reveal which approach has been proven to work best.
