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10 Tips for Supporting Students Struggling with Online Learning

10 Tips for Supporting Students Struggling with Online Learning

by Christina Sabo | Nov 23, 2020 | Featured, Online, Quick Tips

Some students have taken to online learning like fish to water. For others, however, it’s been a bit of a struggle. Online learning isn’t the best fit for every student, and now that online is the only option some students may be seriously struggling in ways they...
Best Practices for Digital Communications Right Now

Best Practices for Digital Communications Right Now

by Christina Sabo | Oct 26, 2020 | Featured, Features, Guides, Online

Whether you’re sending an email, posting in a discussion forum, or chatting online, digital communications can be tricky, as there no allowance for tone of voice or facial expressions. It can also be difficult to strike a balance between explaining things clearly and...
Best Practices for Synchronous Online Teaching and Learning

Best Practices for Synchronous Online Teaching and Learning

by Christina Sabo | Oct 5, 2020 | Featured, Guides, Online

Many students prefer taking online courses because they allow greater flexibility, especially during the pandemic, as many may now be balancing work and childcare with completing their course assignments in a way that they weren’t before. However, the pandemic...
Tech to Try: 3 Tools to Enhance Your Online Discussions

Tech to Try: 3 Tools to Enhance Your Online Discussions

by Christina Sabo | Aug 24, 2020 | Featured, Online, Quick Tips, Tech to Try

It’s entirely possible to have robust, engaging conversations using just the discussion board tools in Blackboard (especially if you follow the best practices). After all, the discussion is more about what’s being said than where it’s being said. But for those who are...
What Does an Instructional Designer Do?

What Does an Instructional Designer Do?

by Christina Sabo | Aug 10, 2020 | Blackboard, Featured, Features, Guides, Online

Learning Technologies has four full-time instructional designers on staff and here to help you. But help you do what? We realize that it might not always be clear just what instructional designers do or how they can help you design and deliver your course content....
5 Key Ways to Transition Remote Teaching to Online Instruction

5 Key Ways to Transition Remote Teaching to Online Instruction

by Christina Sabo | Aug 3, 2020 | Featured, Online

This spring, College of DuPage used remote teaching and learning to deliver our courses. While this took place online, it’s not quite the same as true online teaching and learning in a couple of key ways. As we make the transition to the online modality for...
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