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As you design your online course, you may closely consider the quality of your resources, the relevance of your assessments, and the level of interaction between your students. However, are

Like riding a bike for the first time, it is best to bring a friend along to support you when developing an online course. The relationship between the faculty member, or Subject Matter Expert (SME), and Instructional Designer (ID) is essential to creating a quality online course.

The online student population is becoming increasingly diverse and complex. Clinefelter, Aslanian, and Magda (2019) note that recent trends show online students are getting younger, however, this trend doesn’t mean

Online education is a dynamic field filled with exciting opportunities to innovate. From advanced approaches to instruction to multimedia use in the online classroom, the ways in which online learning
Across recent research and practitioner guidance, a consistent theme emerges: AI is most productive when it automates the routine so
The use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (or GenAI) is present in all teaching modalities and levels. Tools like ChatGPT, Gemini,
2025 brought even more urgency to finding an answer to the question, “What is the role of educators when it
AI-empowered research is reshaping the way we summarize, interpret, and discover knowledge. Faculty and students can now look to AI
Course acceleration is the process of transitioning a traditional, semester-long course into a shorter format, typically seven to eight weeks,
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