How to Bring Discussions Back Into Discussion Forums
Discussion forums are now a staple of online education. However, since becoming common fare in online classrooms, many students have lost their appetite for them and teachers and institutions wrestle with how to get them to partake. As a [read more...]
Teaching
Do you use graded online discussions in your class? Here's a few ways to avoid violating FERPA in discussion forums.
by Brenda Thomas
Everybody who works for an educational institution that receives any federal funds needs to understand and abide by FERPA (a.k.a The Buckley Amendment). On [read more...]
Sourcing and Citation: A Practiced Technique
2019-03-08Sourcing and Citation: A Practiced Technique
Finding and using sources; how did you learn the process? Perhaps it was something you honed through middle school and high school, gathering information from encyclopedias and web sites and laboriously incorporating them into a paper or science project. [read more...]