When I taught my first online course in 2014, I, naively, thought my student population would consist of a particular type of student. I was teaching for Extended Education in their Online Business Education Program, so I knew that all of my students were already working full time jobs. However, that session, and every semester […]
What is CI Keys? CI Keys is an open web platform, free to students, faculty, and staff alike to provide your own personal unlocked piece of the web where you’re free to create online content and websites. With CI Keys, users have access to powerful open source web authoring tools, such as WordPress, that will […]
A Historical Moment On Saturday, May 18, 2019, the Collaborative Online Doctorate in Educational Leadership (CODEL) program hooded its first-ever graduates, making history–yet again–for the CSU. CODEL has been a history-making program. After former California State University Chancellor, Charles Reed, and Senator Jack Scott passed legislation allowing CSU campuses to offer doctoral degrees in Educational […]
I’m sure most of us can relate to this teaching situation: you create a new assignment that you’re excited about, and you can’t wait to see what students create in response, and the results are . . . disappointing. The responses don’t rise to the level you were hoping for or only scratch the surface […]
This is part 1 in a series of blog posts to highlight the work of our Teaching & Learning Innovations team. Each team member was asked to write a post about the work of one of their colleagues. When I first met Megan Eberhardt-Alstot and asked her about her work, a smile lit her face […]
What scares you? Really terrifies you? For me, it’s criticism. Recently I shared an online course with someone whose work I greatly respect and admire. I moused over the ‘send’ button on the email, and literally paused. More terrifying than any B-Rated slasher flick, were the ‘What if’s’ that flooded my conscious: What if it’s […]
Welcome to my first installment of a monthly series, Wired for Presence. High-touch humanized and connected course facilitation is essential in supporting positive student outcomes (course completion, grades, and student satisfaction) for historically underserved and socioeconomically disadvantaged students (Kaup, 2012; Jaggars & Xu, 2016). However, balancing strong presence with a manageable instructor workload is of […]
Student ratings of teaching are a contested ritual, particularly as they seem tainted by gender bias and low response rates, as reported in a recent column in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Even as this may be the case, the narrative feedback provided by those students who do complete course evaluations may offer some useful […]
