Category: Online Teaching
Have You Considered AI in Your Classroom? A Khanmigo Pilot Story
Christa Green
In a two-phase pilot across Michigan schools, educators used Khanmigo, an AI-powered tutor and teaching assistant, to explore how AI might support teaching and learning. Their reflections surfaced both opportunities and challenges. The big takeaway? AI has potential, but only with intentional support.
From Curiosity to Career: Exploring Possibilities with VR
Melissa Graeser
Explore how immersive VR simulations helped students step into real-world roles: from EMTs to chefs, all without leaving the classroom.
Understanding Teacher-Student Communication in Online Courses: An Interview with a Researcher
In this interview, MVLRI researchers discuss key findings from a report highlighting how personalized, consistent, and timely communication in online courses can help students feel more connected to their online teachers and may also impact their success in the course. This blog also explores practical strategies for communicating effectively and building relationships with online students.
16 Holiday Gift Ideas for the Online Teachers in Your Life
A list of 16 gift ideas to make the online teaching experience easier, better, and, yes, more fun!
District Plans for Shifting to Remote Instruction in Spring 2020
Should we go fully digital, use paper copies, or use a hybrid model? How will we assess the technology needs of our students? Should we arrange for meal pick up, delivery, or some combination? How will we manage and monitor student learning? How will we continue to meet the social-emotional needs of our students? These are just some of the questions that school leaders faced as they developed their plans for continued learning after school doors were shuttered for the year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Connecting Teachers: A Community of Practice
True collegial groups among teachers, in any context, still remain the exception and not the norm in many schools — especially for online teachers.
Why Online Teachers NEED Ongoing Professional Development
In our last post on instructional leadership, we touched on the issue of professional development (PD) and the necessity of providing online teachers with ongoing training, support, and PD. This post will expand on the critical importance of PD for new online teachers and ongoing PD for all online teachers.
What makes for quality online teaching? — Revised national standards
Michigan Virtual
What makes for quality online teaching? In this blog post, we overview the latest revision to the National Standards for Quality Online Teaching, which offer a consensus from national online learning experts on what constitutes effective online teaching.
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