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Photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels Surveying your students about the technology they have to take an online course is a good step to take prior to designing course content. Students without a computer at home and decent Internet bandwidth … Continue reading →

Photo by Jacqueline Kelly on Unsplash As I look back at my most recent post from a year ago, I couldn’t help but notice the “best of times” and “worst of times” in the title and reflect upon the presentation … Continue reading →

Looking back over the posts written by faculty who received enhanced instructional designer support to develop online writing courses, I can see the energy we had at the outset. Now, nearly two-and-a-half years later, we have learned a great deal … Continue reading →

After nearly a year of drafting, planning, and creating our online and hybrid courses, we are ready to take the next step: teach them. We began last year with a group of five intrepid faculty who worked together to design … Continue reading →

After finally shaking off the jet-lag from my red-eye return from Portland CCCC 2017, I’ve found myself able to sit down really wrap my head around all the great panels and talks I was able to attend. I heard more … Continue reading →

No. Not that word. I would like to talk about the “F” word that haunts all conscientious faculty: Failure. When our cohort last met for a brainstorming session three weeks ago, Kerry asked a question that has stayed with me … Continue reading →

The past week has been quite a productive one for me, in terms of developing my understanding of online and blended writing instruction. Virtually attending the 2016 OLC Accelerate Conference (Thanks, GMU!) right after our last brainstorming session raised some … Continue reading →

When the five of us met this Monday, we shared some of our wildest ideas for the design of a writing course—from asking students to produce a collaborative anthology to modeling the course’s structure upon the leveling-up system of a … Continue reading →

I’ve been thinking my way through Kerry’s post — particularly the challenge of “What do I want to do and why do I want to do that?” So there are two things I’m struggling with and they both relate to … Continue reading →

d.school bootcamp: the student experience from Stanford d.school on Vimeo. We’re about to graduate from the OCDI curriculum, which has focused mainly on the technology and tools of online classroom planning, and move into what we could think of as a … Continue reading →