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How e-Portfolios Can Empower Students in Higher Education

A key, yet often underrated, benefit of digital learning is that it creates a permanent digital record of student work. In addition to...

Learning Analytics Role in Transformative Learning

While some areas of higher education regularly rely on data-driven decision making to thrive, (enrollment management, for example)...

Communities of Practice for Faculty in Higher Education

Communities of practice are groups of people who gather based on a shared interest or passion for something they all do and learn how to...

How Higher Education Can Learn from Corporate Training Practices

“Learning is no longer an activity that only occurs at specific stages in your life or career. Modern learning is continuous, on the...

Exhibition Curation as Authentic Pedagogy

Authentic learning is an instructional method that provides students with opportunities to meaningfully explore and construct...

Ensuring Educational Quality: Assessment in Five Levels

Every college and university has a mission, and every program and course has intended outcomes, but without assessment, all of these...

Assessment: Beyond Compliance

Since the dawn of the "assessment movement" in higher education in the 1980s, pinning down a broadly shared concrete definition has...

It's Ok to Say, "I don't know."

One of the most formative yet mundane things that a teacher ever told me was, "I don't know." It didn't happen until I was in college. I...

The Problem with Learning and Development

I've had the unique privilege and responsibility of teaching college faculty how to be better educators, and, candidly, I know that many...

Why Visuals Matter in Course Design

The importance of visuals in course design cannot be overstated. Most instructional designers and educators don't have a background in...

Identifying Clear Learning Objectives

Identifying learning objectives can seem deceptively simple. As such, educators and instructional designers can often rush the process...

Leveraging the Unique Attributes of Online Learning

With the sudden need for many teachers to haphazardly move from an in-person to an online format, online learning is starting to get a...

Technology: Distraction, Tool, or Both?

When I was a little girl in elementary school, once a month we would visit the computer lab full of Apple Macintosh Classics with small...

Remember How Hard it Was for You to Learn

One of the best pieces of advice that I ever received as an educator is “remember how hard it was for you to learn.” This thinking is...

Cultivating Intrinsic Motivation Through Connections

In education, intrinsic motivation can be described as when a student’s desire to learn takes priority over all other motivations. Sounds...

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Organizations

Online Learning Consortium (OLC)

Inside Higher Ed

The Chronicle of Higher Education

eLearning Industry

Educause

American Council on Education

Association for General and Liberal Studies (AGLS)

National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT)

Tomorrow's Professor

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Books

Equity by Design: Delivering on the Power and Promise of UDL (2021), by Mirko Chardin and Katie R. Novak

Designing for Modern Learning: Beyond ADDIE and SAM (2020), by Crystal Kadakia and Lisa M.D. Owens

Vintage Innovation: Leveraging Retro Tools and Classic Ideas to Create Meaningful Learning (2020), by John Spencer

Instructional Story Design (2020), by Rance Greene

How to Teach Anything to Anyone Online: Course Design Formula (2019), by Rebecca Frost Cuevas

Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes (2019), by Flower Darby with James M. Lang

How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching (2018), by Joshua R. Eyler

Hacking Instructional Design: 33 Extraordinary Ways to Create a Contemporary Curriculum (2018), by Michael Fisher and Elizabeth Fisher

Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning inHigher Education (2018), by Thomas J. Tobin and Kirsten T. Behling

Design is Storytelling (2017), by Ellen Lupton

Empower: What Happens When Students Own Their Learning (2017), by John Spencer and A.J. Juliani

Design for How People Learn (2016), by Julie Dirksen

Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning (2016), by James M. Lang

Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology (2014), by Michelle D. Miller

The Accidental Instructional Designer: Learning Design for the Digital Age (2014), by Cammy Bean