Month: July 2020

What We Can Learn from Unsuccessful Online Students

There are many studies that look at how online students differ from those in face-to-face classes in terms of performance, satisfaction, engagement, and other factors.…

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How to Reduce Cheating on Online Examinations

The end of the academic term often brings final examinations and cumulative assessments to test students’ knowledge of course materials. With 30% of college students…

Six Tips for Preparing Your Online Course

Careful preparation is essential to the success of an online course “to provide a positive experience for the students and to be able to maximize…

Instructor Characteristics That Affect Online Student Success

Which online instructor characteristics help students succeed? It’s a rather basic question that has not been adequately answered. We did a literature search to find…

Motivating Adult Online Learners

When Sheri Litt became dean of arts and sciences at Florida State College’s Open Campus, one of her priorities was to address the issue of…

Tips for Humanizing Your Online Course

Taking an online course can be an isolating experience, but it doesn’t have to be. There are several key techniques you can employ to humanize…

What Online Teachers Need to Know

The majority of us teach the way we were taught growing up (Southern Regional Education Board, 2009). This presents a challenge for online faculty, who…

Li Beilei: LSIA, a Chance for me to Meet Greater Teachers and Better Students

By Rudina Hoxha Li Beilei has been teaching Chinese as a second language to international audiences since 2009. In 2012 she joined Confucian Institute Tirana,…