As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty members transitioned their courses online. This paper describes how assessment practices were altered in online "active learning" STEM recitations at a large research university. Survey data collected for this study included aspects of the in-person recitation that were retained, lost, or…

Higher education (HE) faculty are increasingly teaching online. For many faculty, this represents a new instructional mode that comes with its own set of challenges but also with new instructional possibilities. One challenge is identifying innovative and effective active learning methods that academically engage online students. Along with other…

Lectures and seminars increasingly strive for continuous interactions between learners and the instructor. I study whether the communication program Slack contributes to these goals by analyzing daily activity statistics in methodological and project-based postgraduate courses at an Irish university. Both semester-long courses were taught online…