Here are a handful of ideas for adding student agency to your online course, even if you weren't the one who designed it. I'd love to hear your ideas, comments, and questions. How do you add agency to your online courses? Email [email protected] or submit online here. 

* A video tour showing how I incorporate student choice into my Pathophysiology course

* Tricider: a free tool for brainstorming and voting on ideas

* FlipGrid: a free tool that simplifies video responses. I'll do a separate blog post on this soon! 

Thoughts on how and why to humanize your instructor bio.  See also this excellent article in Faculty Focus by Evan Kropp: Using Your Instructor Bio to Humanize Course, Reduce Student Anxiety

Here is a link to the Teaching Complexity webinar series.  

Please send feedback and questions to [email protected] or submit here. 

Should you open all of the weeks in your online course from the beginning, or should you release content slowly over the course of the trimester? We'll consider this question through the student lens. Please share your thoughts and/or questions about teaching online here or via email: [email protected] 

Meet Camille and learn why this podcast is called "Thinking of You."