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 ...

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Instructors’ course design and communication strategies are instrumental factors in students’ performance and learning outcomes in predominantly online courses. When teaching online, instructors need ...

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 ...

Travis Grandy is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Find him on Twitter @travisgrandy or at his website. This summer I'm teaching a fully online ...

To stay focused during long online lectures, set up a distraction-free study space, break the lecture into smaller mental checkpoints, and take quick movement breaks. Use interactive tools, take ...

New Curriculum Empowers Older Adults to Plan for and Embrace Life's Fourth Age Boston, Massachusetts--(Newsfile Corp. - October 16, 2025) - Following a highly successful pilot, Road Scholar announces ...

A free, massively open online course (MOOC) on Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life will begin Monday, April 28, and will include what may become the world’s largest memory ...

We offer computer-mediated seminars through our interactive Berkman Online Lecture and Discussion (BOLD) series. Topics have included intellectual property and privacy on the Internet, domain name ...