UM3D: Instructional Impact Blog
for Designing, Developing, and Delivering Courses
As you probably already know from your own experience as a student and educator, being the instructor of a course comes with great responsibility. Not only are you responsible for ensuring students work toward academic demands but you become students’ primary point of contact for questions, concerns, and comments related to the course itself. Students…
Using Intelligent Agents, Replacement Strings, and Email to promote communication and engagement sustainably Streamlining communication ensures effective and manageable learner interaction no matter how large the enrollment, time of day students are active, or when they complete milestones. It lets you be seemingly present when your students are present. eCourseware tools for engagement Intelligent agents…
The Difference Between HyBRID and HyFLEX In Hybrid classes, students and faculty switch between onground and online classes during the term. Faculty decides when the class meets in person, basing their decisions upon many factors. Some faculty choose to give all materials online and just have the class meet for tests; others split on ground…
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…
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…