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 Set Proper Learning Objectives
Here are some examples of what to do, and NOT do, when setting smart learning objectives for your next class.
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.
Tips for Adapting an In-Person Course to an Online Course
Converting an in-person course into an online course requires more than simply copying materials from one format to another. Here are some tips to help you turn your classes into online success stories.
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 [...]
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.
