Brian Udermann, PhD

Brian Udermann, PhD, has more than 20 years of teaching experience in higher education. He started teaching online in 2005, and served as the director of online education at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse from 2007-2020. In addition to his administrative duties, he facilitates online workshops through the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) and is an alumnus of OLC’s Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning. Udermann has published more than 70 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts, five book chapters, and two books, and has done more than 200 national and international presentations.

Last Updated: 1-11-2021

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- Using Student Feedback to Immediately Improve Teaching
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- How Can I Help Students Who Are Struggling with Online Learning?
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- What Are Practical Solutions for Managing My Online Teaching Workload?
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- This 20-Minute Mentor will provide a variety of practical solutions for faculty to use to manage their online teaching workload, including ways to effectively provide student feedback in less time and how to eliminate “time-stealers".
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- How Can I Incorporate Best Practices into My Online Teaching?
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- Developing and Teaching an Online Course
- $329.00
- Developing and Teaching an Online Course is your surest path to online teaching success. This content-rich, 20- to 25-hour Magna Online Course provides core principles and best practices in online teaching—to get you up and running fast, without costly and frustrating false starts.
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- Customized Course Review Rubrics: How to Take the Quality of Your Online Courses to the Next Level
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- Practical Strategies to Improve Student Retention in Online Courses
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- Seven Ways to Facilitate Effective Online Discussions
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- How Can Online Instructors Better Manage Their Workload?
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- About 60-70% of faculty believe that teaching online courses is more work intensive than teaching face-to-face courses. Factors include course preparation before teaching, managing sometimes unwieldy online discussions, and even fielding student questions around the clock.
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Brian Udermann, PhD

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