Why? Setting the agenda for the class meeting will reinforce to students what topics will be covered, while also demonstrating how prepared you are as an instructor, and can also help establish your ...

On Mondays and Wednesdays at 9 a.m., an ECON 103: Macroeconomic Principles lecture is held in Foellinger Auditorium, a lecture hall that can seat over 1,300 people. Despite the large seating capacity, ...

Michelle Bitten isn’t a morning person, which made it hard for her to get to her 8 a.m. biology class at UC Berkeley three times a week. And when she did attend, she felt that the instructor tended to ...

In response to the rapid growth of online and hybrid learning in the CSU and the need to support the development of high-quality courses, the Chancellor’s Office established an Online Course Services ...

Firstly, taping lectures provides considerable benefit to students enrolled in the course. Taped lectures allow students to review parts of the material they did not understand and provide another ...

Understanding how time “works” in online teaching and course design is often a challenge for online instructors, especially those new to online education. Four distinct yet related questions can ...

Research is now showing what works — and what doesn’t — for students forced online by the pandemic. Better course design should be the next step. Digital technology and COVID-19 have transformed the ...