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Online Course Design Pitfall #4: Expect Your Students to Consume Knowledge Rather Than Create It

Posted on October 21, 2019 by sargentj

This pitfall stood out to me, as it seemed it would be an easy trap to fall into while redesigning the course I teach. Many of the resources previously developed for the Special Animal Med course are geared toward a … Continue reading →

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Sage on the Stage

Posted on February 22, 2019 by rolstoni

Online Course Design Pitfall #3: Insist on being the “sage on the stage.” According to Elizabeth St. Germain’s article, “Five Common Pitfalls of Online Course Design,” she discusses how teachers, instructors and professors often teach using the pedagogy that they … Continue reading →

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Synthesize, Mix, and Create

Posted on April 20, 2018 by sakumak

  Online and hybrid courses tempt instructors to provide students with ALL the resources, background information, activities and expecting students to go through each thing and absorb it all.  A major pitfall is that we Expect students to consume knowledge rather … Continue reading →

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One should probably avoid drinking from a firehose

Posted on January 23, 2016 by mobleyme

In my reading of the “5 common pitfalls”, #s 3-5 stood out to me as being a) quite interconnected and b) quite relevant to my biggest frustrations with the classes I’ve been teaching so far and the big opportunities I see for … Continue reading →

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Going beyond the LMS

Posted on October 16, 2014 by nymanmat

Pitfall 2 – going beyond the standard LMS. I like the LMS format. I find that it attends to my sense of organization and I find it exciting to make the folders connected and organized. OK – so I don’t … Continue reading →

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Students learn from each other

Posted on October 15, 2014 by terrella

In Elizabeth St. Germain’s article “Five Common Pitfalls of Online Course Design,” design pitfall #5 stood out to me for my ALS 161 Listening/Speaking class: Don’t ignore the ways students learn from each other. A vital part of learning a … Continue reading →

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Online Collaborative Activities for Non-Native English Speakers

Posted on April 20, 2014 by irelandi

These are just tentative ideas on work in progress, which is to design a new hybrid course for international students – learners of English. I’d like to address “Online Course Design Pitfall #5” written by Elizabeth St. Germain in response … Continue reading →

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How to encourage student-student interaction?

Posted on October 15, 2013 by pugatcht

Of the five common pitfalls of online course design, I’m worried about all of them when it comes to designing my hybrid course. The one that gives me most pause, though, is #5: “ignore the ways students learn from each … Continue reading →

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Sage from Afar

Posted on April 21, 2013 by greavesk

The pitfall I’d like to avoid, but know I am going to struggle with, is being the “Sage on the Stage”. One of the facets I love about teaching such large classes (600) is that it really is very much … Continue reading →

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Pitfalls of Online Course Development

Posted on October 12, 2012 by rolstoni

After reading the 5 pitfalls, I realized that I have made most of these in the past and most likely would have continued to do so. Posting readings, discussion questions, assignments, quizzes, exams, PP slides…all of this I have done … Continue reading →

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