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Learning a New LMS: Personal Experience Insights
October 09, 2024
In our Personal Experience Insights series, members of the Everspring Learning Design department share first-hand accounts of creating online learning content and meaningful takeaways from their professional experiences.
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Using Data to Inform Course Updates: Personal Experience Insights
April 22, 2025
In our Personal Experience Insights series, members of the Everspring Learning Design department share first-hand accounts of creating online learning content and meaningful takeaways from their professional experiences.
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Enhancing Student Learning Through Course Consistency and Accessibility
October 04, 2024
Course developers (those who build individual courses) play a crucial role in the success of an online degree program by providing expertise and bringing unique perspectives. Accordingly, it is valuable for faculty to customize their course spaces by infusing them with their own knowledge and personality. At the same time, it is also crucial to prioritize structural consistency within and across courses in an online program, as course consistency is a key aspect of accessibility and a key contributing factor to student success. In particular, students must be able to perceive, operate, and understand the course and course materials using program-standard devices and certain assistive technologies, and this should be true across all of the courses in a program. This is where program chairs and administrators can help support faculty in standardizing key elements of courses to facilitate a seamless student experience. In this piece, we discuss how maintaining structural consistency within and across courses can positively impact accessibility.
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Administrator Needs: Standardizing Elements of a Digital Learning Program
August 27, 2025
As an administrator or department chair, you are in a unique position to shape an online program and establish programmatic requirements or recommendations. This is because you have been tasked with taking a broader view of the program, focusing not only on individual course development (as a faculty member might) but also on how an array of courses must be cohesively united to achieve certain goals, values, and accreditation standards. To that end, this piece focuses on why consistency across a program is integral to program quality and student success, and therefore why it falls within your purview to consider standardizing certain elements, requirements, and design choices across all courses in a program.
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Beyond the Classroom: Why Administrative Leadership Determines the Future of CBE
February 03, 2026
This piece is part of a series exploring competency-based education (CBE) and focuses on the central role of administrative leadership in successful CBE implementation. For curated research on CBE that may be of particular use to administrative leadership, consult our annotated bibliography on CBE in higher education.
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Implementing a New Program: Key Considerations for Success
February 03, 2026
As an administrator or program director, you may be tempted to launch a new program as soon as need, idea, and opportunity converge. After all, the sooner a program opens its doors, the sooner students become proud alumni. However, the more planning that is done at the outset of program implementation, the more holistic and coherent the program will be, and thus, the more successful.
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First Time Teaching Online
November 05, 2024
The online learning environment may seem vastly different from the on-ground classroom. With the right preparation, however, you can successfully translate on-ground teaching and expertise into the online modality and create an engaging learning experience for students. In this piece, we will walk through things you’ll want to look for and decisions you’ll need to make when teaching online for the first time, regardless of what course you’re teaching. Additionally, we also provide some specific examples that are particularly relevant if you are using the Canvas learning management system.
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