What’s New in Online Program Development Grants?

March 22, 2019 by Kim Penoyer | Office of Digital Education
With the support of the CU System President and CU Denver and Anschutz Medical Campus Chancellors, Online Education is vastly improving at our campuses. With this support, the Office of Digital Education (formerly CU Online) now has the ability to provide a robust marketing and student recruitment effort as well as a student success team to support your new, fully online students from the moment they indicate they have an interest in your program.
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Welcome!

January 4, 2019 by
For our first post, I’d like to share a bit about our team, our work, and our vision for this space that we hope will become a frequently visited bookmark for you and your colleagues.
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Designing Active Learning for the Online Classroom Part 3

August 28, 2018 by Glenda Robertson | College of Nursing at CU Anschutz
Many of the face-to-face classroom design considerations hold true for the online classroom. This third post will explore additional design considerations for active learning online. Once again, the design concepts are organized around the questions of who, what, when, where, and why. The goal is to provide key design concepts to consider before choosing the “right” active learning strategy.
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Designing Active Learning for the Face-to-Face Classroom

August 28, 2018 by Glenda Robertson | College of Nursing at CU Anschutz
This blog post is the second in a series about active learning course design. The first post provided an evidence-based perspective on how moving from a lecture paradigm design to an active learning design improves student learning. This second post explores how to design active learning for the face-to-face classroom.
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The Case for Designing Active Learning Activities to Enhance Information Recall

August 28, 2018 by Glenda Robertson | College of Nursing at CU Anschutz
Lecture, as an education design strategy, is familiar and perhaps comfortable to us all. So much so that paradigms exist regarding how to give and receive knowledge and skills.
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Student Perspectives - Aaron Aldrich

April 20, 2018 by Lainie Hoffman | Office of Digital Education
As we seek to provide top-notch courses and programs in the online environment, we must remember that the experience of designing and implementing is only half of the equation. On the other side are the students – our partners in education. But we don’t always know much about what online looks like from the student perspective.
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Designing Effective Discussions

December 17, 2017 by Sarah North | Office of Digital Education
When writing discussions, you'll want to ask yourself a few questions which will help define the types of prompts you'll prepare for your students: What level are my students at in this topic/field? (entry level, mid-level, mastery level, etc.) and At this point in the semester, what is the goal for my students? (foundational knowledge, critical thinking, application, etc.)
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Using "roles" in your online discussions

May 3, 2017 by Sarah North | Office of Digital Education
Are you ready to breathe new life into your online discussions? [Roles in group discussions] You might want to try out integrating roles into small discussion groups, which can provide more variety in the discussion forum and clearly define tasks. Roles can be assigned to students each week, or you can opt for self-selection using a variety of methods.
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