RECENT ARTICLES

• Finding the Right Tools for Your Classroom's Tech Needs

  By Georgia Konstantinou

  

  In Educational Duct Tape, Jake Miller compares, contrasts, and selects technology tools for educators in a creative and entertaining way.

  
  

• Profound Learning Through Universal Design

  By Carol Rogers-Shaw, Michael Kroth, Davin Carr-Chellman, Jinhee Choi

  

  How Profound Learning Theory connects to distance learning to support the development of deep online learning.

  
  

• Inclusion Rather Than Exclusion: An interview with Simos Retalis on accessibility

  By Begum Sacak

  

  A discussion on the approaches and characteristics of edtech tools that can help accommodate learners with disabilities.

  
  

• Design Thinking and Thinking by Design

  By Damien Michaud

  

  Clark Quinn's "Make It Meaningful" provides a primer and a playbook for educators to reflect upon and improve their personal practice.

  
  

• Cross-institutional Leadership Collaboration: Toward the development of a peer-mentoring framework of practice in adult online education

  By Haijun Kang, Rachel Ohmes

  

  As education institutions look for efficient ways to serve adult learners, a peer-mentoring framework of practice can help.

  
  

• The impact of work and life experience on learning: A conversation with Peter Smith

  By Amy J. Hilbelink

  

  Oftentimes, when we consider traditional higher education, we neglect to ask whether our institutions are serving all learners.

  
  

• Outsourced Professional Development for Online Instructors: Recommendations from research

  By Ling Zhao, Raymond Dixon, Tonia Dousay, Ali Carr-Chellman

  

  How can institutions improve the quality of online teaching? Faculty share their thoughts on outsourced professional development.

  
  

• Down the rabbit hole: Revisiting etymology, epistemology, history and practice of instructional and learning design

  By Begüm Saçak, Aras Bozkurt, Ellen Wagner

  

  There is a multitude of terminologies in the field of learning and training to refer to how we design and approach learning experiences.

  
  

• Micro-credentials: An interview with George Ubachs

  By Dilek Şenocak, Şeyda Kır

  

  A conversation on how micro-credentials support equity and inclusion in education, plus more.

  
  

• Relearnit Reexamines online program management (OPM): An interview with Dr. Ronald Wagner

  By Ali Carr-Chellman

  

  For many smaller players, OPMs fill an important role in the current e-learning landscape.

  
  

RECENT OPINIONS

Closing the Assessment Excellence Gap: Why digital assessments should go beyond recall and be more inclusive

By Gavin Cooney, John Kleeman

Stakeholders in digital assessments have requirements and expectations that technology implementations do not always meet. This is the "Assessment Excellence Gap." This article explains why digital assessment is important and focuses on two particular aspects with a call to action to make assessments more inclusive and to write questions that go beyond recall when creating assessments.

Supporting Online Teaching Faculty Beyond the Pandemic: A “faculty concierge” model

By Anita Samuel

Higher education is faced with a shifting milieu that actively embraces online education. This environment requires robust faculty support. Enter the faculty concierge model of faculty support, which extends the instructional designer-focused concierge model of online support proposed by McCurry and Mullinx through a faculty-centered lens. The faculty concierge model aims to provide high-touch, individualized faculty support. Faculty concierges respect the experiences and expertise of the faculty members they work with; they start with small changes and focus on offering simple and accessible support.