I was reading a chapter on “Creating an Effective Online Syllabus” recently and found some good information that I guess I’ve not really considered. Some of it feels like common sense, but some of it just gets missed by anyone who teaches online. Sign posts included in this article are “the contract”, “the map”, and [...]

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In the Gabcast for this week a question arose about the platform for the course we’re building. Let me disclose that I wrote a grant for the course I am building, and I am co-developing it with a colleague. With that said, I prefer Google Apps as my platform (like this course), and not because [...]

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