In this episode of Course Stories, Dr. Alicia Montalvo, College of Health Solutions Lecturer, and Tamara Mitchell, Instructional Designer, discuss how to use frameworks and best practices for innovative and iterative course design.

We explore intentional course improvements, using the 5E Model of Design, and “seeing what sticks” improved the student learning experience in EXW217.

Discover how you can use these iterative design principles in your course to enhance the learning experience.

In this episode, ASU President's Award-winning faculty, Kristy Roschke, and Associate Director for IDNM, DeAnna Soth, discuss Kristy’s new course addressing misinformation in society. MCO 427 Misinformation and Society is part of the online BA in Digital Media Literacy. This course is timely and relevant, given the significant impact of misinformation on world events. The course explores how misinformation is created, why it persists, and explores what we can do about it.  

And as an added bonus, Ricardo and Mary are joined by Regina Revazova, a journalist who grew up in Russia with direct experience of how important mediums of communication for honest and critical journalism can be to a free society. She also shares some of her own tips for podcasting; her passion and her business.

In this episode, Mary interviews two of her passionate faculty from the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Ryan Meuth and Phillip Miller. Ryan and Phill have a long history with CSE110, Principles of Programming, first redeveloping the course for our Universal Learner pathways, formerly known as Earned Admissions, and we get a little nostalgic when we bring in Jill Roter to briefly fawn over Phill and Ryan and talk about the impact this course makes in all of ASU's Teaching & Learning realms.

S01E05: IPI 294: A Journey in Designing and Making for an Interplanetary Future by Course Stories

PHI 335: History of Ethics:

In this episode of Course Stories, we are exposed to the pedagogical and ethical considerations for online learning and life in general with Jeff Watson, an active instructor for ASU Online with years of online course design experience.

MUS 194: Beginning Class Guitar 1 for Non-Majors:

In this episode of Course Stories, we listen to Rowena Luce and Brendan Lake discuss the evolution of MUS 194: Beginning Class Guitar 1 for Non-Majors. Brendan traces his efforts to build flexibility into an online course to facilitate a creative and personalized space where students are encouraged to take risks and celebrate their musical voice.

ENG 471: Literature for Young Adults

In this episode of Course Stories, we hear Christine Moore lead a round table discussion about how this YA focused course was put together using a collaborative development model and blends the talents of 3 of ASU’s top faculty in the YA arena to give students a well-rounded and expert view of the major topics in this genre. This course covers a broad range of topics surrounding the Young Adult Literature genre, also known as YA. It covers everything from the history of the genre, its career paths, representation in YA, and even the censorship of those stories. It is a VERY popular course…it is fresh, interesting and relatable, and the students who take it are studying everything from education, to literature to media & marketing.

LAW 480: Business LAW

In this episode of Course Stories, we listen to London Skiles and Bradley Forst discuss the narrative elements of Brad’s course, LAW 480: Business Law, which takes students on a journey of starting, growing, and selling a business. We also have Matthew Robins (Manager of Online Learning for EdPlus) and MultiMedia Developer, Ron Carranza, in the studio to talk about the New Media team's approach to developing the content of this upgraded course. All that, and we explore the varied experiences of moving to remote instruction in the midst of the COVID pandemic compared to the intentional process of quality online course design.

Check out the TeachOnline page: https://teachonline.asu.edu/2022/03/course-stories-episode-2-business-lawbarista-engaging-students-through-storytelling/

Course Stories is produced by EdPlus out of Arizona State University.

OGL575: Quantitative Data Analysis in Leadership Research

In this episode of Course Stories, we listen to Meredith Savvides and Mai Trinh discuss the unique elements of Mai’s statistics course, a FUN statistics course.

Check out the TeachOnline page: https://teachonline.asu.edu/2022/02/course-stories-episode-1-adventures-in-stats-a-gamified-online-course/

Course Stories is produced by EdPlus out of Arizona State University.

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Ricardo Leon, Media Specialist with EdPlus

Mary Loder, Instructional Designer with ASU Online at EdPlus