Higher Ed Post-COVID: What Did We Learn?
Since the frenzied, haphazard transition to virtual-only education, the educational community has been barraged by technological techniques, platforms, and services. What did we learn from this transition and how do we make the in-person classroom learning experience better than the ...
Preserving What Works in Traditional Classrooms
By the end of the Fall 2020 semester, most university faculty have had some time to reflect on how they teach, why they teach, and what they teach. Most professors made improvements in courses as they seek new ways to ...
Adaptive Learning Technology: What’s in it for You?
Adaptive learning is becoming one of the most exciting and talked about technologies in the education sector. The higher education community is finding that adaptive learning systems have the potential to accommodate student differences in an increasingly diverse population. What ...
Institutional Ecosystems for Substantive, Sustainable, and Scalable Digital Learning
Dr. Jane E. Neapolitan BACKGROUND I spent 20 years of my career as a faculty member and administrator at a teaching institution. It was only in the last 5 or so years, however, that the question “What makes good teaching?” was ...
Supporting College Program and Faculty Goals: Leveraging CourseMaps for Quality Educational Experiences
Goal Defined: Expedite Program Redesign Towson University’s College of Education (COE) created the Instructional Technology Masters program using classroom delivery. In 2019, the COE’s Department of Educational Technology & Literacy decided to make their Masters program 100% online. The Department had ...
Academic Innovation: Out from the Noise
Dr. Jane E. Neapolitan BACKGROUND When I was assigned to lead a faculty innovation center at a public university in 2012, higher education was abuzz with exploring innovations such as course redesign, flexible learning spaces, and MOOCs. These learning innovation initiatives rest ...
A Golden Alliance: Office of Academic Innovation, Towson Incubator and ClearAlignment
The ClearAlignment team is extremely honored and proud to be working with Towson University (TU) to provide course alignment services for faculty. The Office of Academic Innovation (OAI) is providing incentives for faculty in all six TU Colleges to have ...
From Syllabus to Final Exam: Taking the Pain out of Moving your Face-to-Face Class to an Online Platform
We all know that simplicity is the art of decreasing the number of tasks that we must do. But we also know that such sweet simplicity is hard to find, especially when we are challenged with creating online versions of ...
Three Angles of Online Instructional Presence
For faculty the anticipation and stress of the academic year reaches a high point right before the start of a new semester. This tension arises because veteran instructors know the importance of establishing an ideal learning atmosphere at the start ...
ClearAlignment Announces Partnership with Towson University
Professionals working in higher education today rarely complain about a shortage of challenges. From rising tuition or declining enrollment, to shrinking pensions, educators face a sea of difficulties. Not least among these is the wave of digital disruption brought about ...
