We spoke with Assistant Professor of History Amy O’Keefe about her use of Reacting to the Past, an active learning pedagogy of role-playing games designed for higher education. In this video, O’Keefe gives an overview of the games she’s implemented in her courses, technology tools she’s used in an online class environment and student feedback […]
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Last month, the director of Meredith’s Dietetic Internship program, Cathie Ostrowski, M.S., R.D., L.D.N., FAND, presented at the Nutrition Health and Human Performance virtual monthly meeting on the program’s addition of a virtual adaption of the simulation lab to its curriculum. In this video, Ostrowski gives an overview of the lab’s use of video, Google
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The use of technology across campus has never been greater than it is right now. We have changed the way we work together, the way we meet, the way we learn, and even the way we communicate. With the use of new technology comes new processes for making it all happen, and while the tools
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When wanting to know the importance of Instructional Design, the first step is to define this ever-evolving realm of learning processes. Instructional Design is defined as the systematic development of instructional specifications using learning and instructional theory to ensure the quality of instruction. Now knowing the definition of Instructional Design, how does this apply to higher
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The IDAT team has noticed an increased use of Respondus Lockdown Browser with higher stakes testing. Waiting until the day of the test for students to download and try out LockDown Browser can give you these problems with limited time to solve them: The best practice in using Respondus is to schedule a no-credit quiz
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Student learning can be demonstrated through many different but equitable assessment methods. In considering an alternative to an existing assessment, faculty may need to consider alternative assessment strategies with respect to end-of-semester formal exams and/or continuous assessments. These strategies could be considered as an online alternative to assessments that would generally be carried out in
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Exercise & Sports Science professor Melinda Campbell, Ph.D, recently made an infographic assignment in her ESS 300 Issues and Management class. We caught up with Dr. Campbell to see how it went. You will find some links to the assignment rubric and tutorials on how students can use Google Draw and Excel to create infographics.
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