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First And Lasting Impressions: Creating Course Tour Videos To Guide Online Students, Melony Shemberger
First And Lasting Impressions: Creating Course Tour Videos To Guide Online Students, Melony Shemberger
Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings
Online course design has gained increased attention in education, given the global health crisis brought on by COVID-19. Students need to familiarize themselves at the beginning of an online course to be successful. An important item often overlooked, however, is the inclusion of a course tour video, which can help serve as an effective orientation for a student new to the course. This article will share best practices and insights on how to make a brief video guiding students to navigate a course more effectively, setting them up for success.
Give ‘Em Something To Smile About: Connecting With Online Students Through Humor, John Huss
Give ‘Em Something To Smile About: Connecting With Online Students Through Humor, John Huss
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Humor and higher education are infrequently mentioned in the same conversation, but much empirical evidence supports the contention that the use of humor is related to positive student perceptions of the instructor and learning environment (Banas et al., 2011; Garner, 2006; James, 2004; Suzuki & Heath, 2014). The literature certainly establishes a foundation to consider humor as a critical element of any instructor’s online teaching arsenal and such an inclusion may be particularly pertinent at this time, given the undeniable shift in higher education dynamics as more institutions, both by choice and circumstance, witness unprecedented growth in their web-based programs. …
Supporting International Graduate Students: Lessons From A Fall 2020 Non-Credit Course, Jill Mcmillan
Supporting International Graduate Students: Lessons From A Fall 2020 Non-Credit Course, Jill Mcmillan
Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse International Students in Open or Online Learning Environments: A Research Symposium
This paper discusses a non-credit pass/fail course that is designed to support international graduate students as they begin their graduate studies at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Specifically, the paper considers how the course was redesigned in Fall 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and a university-wide shift to remote teaching and learning. I share my experience redesigning and facilitating the course, as informed by a pedagogy of care within an online context. Special consideration is given to course structure and student engagement, as well as general lessons learned from the experience, including some of …
Best Practices Of Teaching And Engaging International Students In Online Learning: An Australian Perspective, Jasvir Kaur Nachatar Singh
Best Practices Of Teaching And Engaging International Students In Online Learning: An Australian Perspective, Jasvir Kaur Nachatar Singh
Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse International Students in Open or Online Learning Environments: A Research Symposium
Teaching international students can be challenging, either online or face-to-face. However, it can also be fruitful if one knows how to engage with international students in the learning and teaching environments, especially online. In Australia, traditional delivery of teaching was still going on for schools and higher educational institutions until the end of March 2020, but this changed within weeks to remote or online methods, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At La Trobe University in Australia, teaching was paused for a week to cope with the learning and teaching ‘shock’ – that is to re-orientate teaching from face-to-face to completely …