Alfred Van Cleave, Jr., Ph.

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EL201 - Online Communication: Engaging and Retaining Online Learners

Hi, Marilyn.

I have been developing an instructional model over the last 30 years, which I would like to share with you. Cannot attach it here, but my e-mail is kent.vancleave@faculty.aiuonline.edu. I focus on teaching students process awareness, and build a mental model of their learning and performance process skills and deficits, from which I offer formative feedback.

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EL201 - Online Communication: Engaging and Retaining Online Learners

I have been teaching / facilitating at the college level for 30 years, 13 of that online. I have practiced reflective teaching, such that I reflect on my ongoing experiences for what they can teach me about being a better instructor. I found this course to be surprisingly fresh, and surprisingly useful, particularly the fourth module - Online Communication Strategies. Although I had already arrived at most of those techniques, the frameworks this module provided will strengthen my practice by making it more reflective and more systematic.

Alfred Van Cleave, Jr., Ph.

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Study Reveals The Best Study Strategies for College Students

This study leaves off the most important and most effective learning method I have encountered - SQ3R. I have a presentation on SQ3R at Slideshare, which anyone is welcome to download and share. http://www.slideshare.net/avanclea/presentations

Alfred Van Cleave, Jr., Ph.

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Improving student feedback

Using AutoCorrect in MS Office to Generate Better Feedback

Greetings, Jack. Neither macros nor quick links. Autocorrect - see the slides at the link above. What are quick links?

Alfred Van Cleave, Jr., Ph.

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Improving student feedback

Just want to share with anyone my practice of using AutoCorrect to save feedback comments that I use often. I define short character strings to produce large amounts of information content. When I write feedback, I do so in MS Word, and I am able to generate a lot of useful feedback with fewer keystrokes. For example,

When I type aparef, autocorrect changes it to read

APA errors in references (deduct x points). Check proper formatting for referencing at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/05/ . For referencing electronic sources, see http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/.

This is not restricted to feedback on APA format; I can also… >>>

Alfred Van Cleave, Jr., Ph.

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Using AutoCorrect in MS Office to Generate Better Feedback

PPt slides that show you how.