Early this year, after the pandemic had moved my classroom online, a student asked if we could try “silent meetings” in a course I was teaching. At first I assumed that, like many of us, he was just ...

Your success in online classes will depend on your ability to communicate, engage and participate in all course activities. Completion of online courses requires that you keep up with all assignments, ...

Packback, an online platform that uses artificial intelligence to facilitate class discussions, has introduced an Instant Feedback feature that provides students with a real-time assessment of their ...

Online platforms may freeze or crash just when students are inputting a well-crafted response to a discussion question. Suggest students use Word or offline Google docs to save copies of their work.

Most courses at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) include discussion board assignments each week. In fact, you might have discussion boards in every course of your degree program. So, why are ...

The coronavirus has colleges and universities swinging into action to move courses online. In the coming weeks, we’ll find out just how prepared (or not) academe is to do this on a large scale. Those ...

Participation in a discussion board is among the most common assignments in online courses. We typically ask our students to respond to a reading or a prompt and then reply to several of their ...

It can work well in some circumstances, but so far does not seem like an adequate substitute for conventional classroom instruction for large classes. Like most academics, I have had to teach and ...

Cindy Gallatin, MBA, is the University of New Haven’s chief of digital learning initiatives. When Cindy Gallatin, MBA, was first developing an online learning program at Quinnipiac University 20 years ...