Two decades of scholarship on online learning and teaching focused on creating novel pedagogical solutions in online and hybrid learning settings, including higher education, teacher education, and faculty development contexts.
As a response to the pedagogical needs during the pandemic, we developed the human-centered design (HCD) approach for online teaching that guided our online learning design practices in the time of crises. We implemented the HCD approach in a number of graduate and undergraduate courses we taught during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The open education movement continues to grow and expand around the world with an increasing number of OER materials and open courses. There is a need to move beyond content-centered and technology-focused approaches to open educational practices. Open pedagogy emerged as a manifestation of open educational practices in the design, delivery, and evaluation of OER as an integral part of the learning and teaching processes. Engaging in open pedagogy to create OER strengthens student understanding of information ownership, copyrights, licenses, and responsibilities.
Online Education Practitioner Interview Series is a collection of video interviews conducted with the instructional design practitioneers. These interviews were conducted, edited, and shared by the students who took the EDUC-603 in Spring 2019.
Learning Environments Design series is a collection of seminal readings with commentary on different topics of learning environments design. Students taking the EDUC/HCI-603: Advanced Learning Environments Design contributed to the development of this open online source.
Online Learning Toolbox is a collection of seminal readings with commentary on different topics of online learning. Students taking the EDUC-507: Principles and Practices of Distance Education graduate course in Fall 2019 at Iowa State University contributed to the development of this open online source.
Online Learning Toolbox is a collection of resources on online learning and teaching reated by the students taking EDUC-507: Principles and Practices of Distance Learning course offered in Summer 2020.
Investigating successful online teaching in different higher education settings. Our research presents practical strategies for supporting teachers' online teaching.