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 […]
Discussion activities are an important element of learning. They help build a community and foster student engagement. In addition, interactions between students promote critical thinking and a deeper understanding of course material. Moreover, instructors can establish a presence to create a welcoming atmosphere that increases student success. At the same time, traditional forms of online […]
We are excited to announce that we are launching a new interactive discussion tool called Yellowdig. Yellowdig is a discussion platform that leverages social media-inspired design with a behavior incentivized points system, gamified badges, auto-nudging, multi-media sharing capabilities, detailed analytics, tagging, highlighting, searching/filtering, reactions, and auto-scoring for faster and easier grading. FIU courses will be able […]
