UM3D: Instructional Impact Blog
for Designing, Developing, and Delivering Courses
The Ignite series focuses on current trends and proven techniques to inspire your course development. Presentations are offered in multiple modalities, dates and times to encourage broad participation. You’ll leave with new ideas and fresh perspectives. Fall 2020 Ignite Dates Ignite continues Fall 2020 as Webinars. Join us live or watch the recorded presentation on…
“Learning is often a social process, taking place through dialogue, discussion and other forms of interpersonal interaction. Even when it happens individually, having a supporting community can provide learners with the motivation and opportunities for applying and connecting knowledge.” Source Promote Interaction You can promote interaction through the design, development and delivery of your course.…
Adapted from Arthur W. Pickering and Zelda Gamson’s 1987 article “Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education”. Emphasize Time on Task Ensure all instructional content, resource materials, learning activities, assignments, and assessments are divided into manageable segments that promote learning. Reasonable completion deadlines should accompany every learning activity which includes appropriate open and close…
Adapted from Arthur W. Pickering and Zelda Gamson’s 1987 article “Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education”. Encourage Student-Faculty Communication Establish communication guidelines from the beginning of your online course. Specify what email account you will use for the course, especially if you choose not to use the eCourseware email function, and how frequently…
Not too long ago, teaching online meant teaching a course that was in some way available online. But now that the UofM provost’ office has defined different modalities, deciding how to teach online can be as simple as doing what your department has decided collectively is the way to go, or as complicated choosing different…