Let’s be honest: you approach the start of every semester with the perfect plan for a smooth online course. But as finals roll around, you find yourself buried in a heap of ungraded assignments, student emails, and rushed lectures. Dr. Amber Webber, an Instructional Design Manager at FIU Online and a seasoned professor, has been […]
FIU Online’s monthly Instructor Webinar series explores relevant instructional strategies and effective ways to use technology in an online classroom. The “Engage and Activate” webinar, presented in May 2021 by FIU Online’s Dr. Trina Sanders and Charles Roig, demonstrates how to use learning tools to incorporate active learning into your class. View the full instructor […]
A syllabus is the roadmap of a course. For many instructors, the labor of creating a syllabus is daunting. Luckily, FIU Online built a tool called CreatorPro LTI for university-wide use, which makes the process easy semester to semester. What is CreatorPro LTI? CreatorPro LTI is a syllabus creation and storage tool. The tool makes […]
The live virtual workshops are part of the FIU Online Community Learning portfolio, which stems out of FIU’s belief that lifelong learning should be available to everyone. This series, provided at no cost, includes tips and tools on how to design, deliver and engage students using best practices in online learning. As K-12 schools face […]
PlayPosit: Increase Engagement with Videos Using videos in online learning may not sound ground-breaking or innovative, but that’s because you’re not using PlayPosit yet. PlayPosit is a tool that provides an intuitive, easy-to-use editing platform for creating interactive videos, also known as “bulbs.” You can use videos you create or content you have curated from […]
How can we replicate student engagement and collaborative learning when we shift from a face-to-face to a virtual classroom? The Google G-Suite is a great tool for allowing students to collaborate synchronously or asynchronously in a variety of multimedia platforms. Using G-Suite tools, instructors can foster collaborative and critical thinking while coaching students on providing and […]
As instructors strive to implement meaningful content into their courses, an innovative option is open-ended problem learning. This instruction encourages focus on solving an open-ended problem using pre-existing knowledge and experience while applying newly acquired information. As a result, they develop content understanding and key critical thinking skills (Athreya and Mouza, 2017). This narrative technique […]
Throughout 2017, the student use of laptops/technology ban in the classroom debate got hotter than Miami in August. While not a new concern in the classroom, this laptop ban debate merits discussion. To Ban, or… University of Michigan professor Susan Dynarski identified in a New York Times op-ed article, Laptops are Great. But Not During […]
