Learning commons news

Although written for the classroom, this article offers sound advice for both synchronous and asynchronous discussions online. It provides five…

This U Waterloo article makes the distinction between the strategic development of online courses and the emergency transition to teaching online that…

This Inside HigherEd article, Hope Matters, is timely, and is now also available in French. Related is this U Michigan resource that offers sound…

This DePaul University blog entry discusses bandwidth and immediacy, and presents them as two axes of a matrix.

The Online Pedagogical Resources of Educaloi. Éducaloi is a Quebec registered nonprofit organization that has played a leading role in improving…

Although a small study, it shows how asking students to conceptualize and find relationships between things improves metacognition.

The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) has posted many resources for teaching and assessing in the online/remote…

A page of alternative assessment strategies shared by Concordia. This page was one of the many listed by SALTISE on their Online Teaching & Learning…

Greg Milligan of Microsoft Teams recorded and archived this webinar. The slide deck is also available.

Although these articles have been posted in response to COVID-19, their messages are relevant to Higher Education in any time of disruption or duress.…