Instructional Design That Works

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The Importance of Instructional Design in Higher Education

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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Using Low-stakes Quiz to Test LockDown Browser

Brightspace, Other Instructional Tools / By Stephanie Ashby

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 file has problems downloading The Quiz is locked until a certain …

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Alternative Assessment Methods For Online Environment

Course Design / By msstacymuse

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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Using infographic assignments in your classroom

Course Design, Success Spotlight / By Paul Keys

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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Using Flipgrid in the Classroom

Other Instructional Tools / By msstacymuse

Welcome to Flipgrid! To ignite your learners’ discussions, you will need to set up your Educator account, create a classroom (we call them Groups!), and share your first Topic. Topics are discussion prompts that you create and your students respond to that prompt with a short video. Create a Group Groups are a shared space for your learners …

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Using TurnItIn in Any Discipline

Brightspace, Other Instructional Tools / By Stephanie Ashby

TurnItIn has some great features for professors to use–even if they aren’t teaching writing! Use this module below to learn about these features as well as how to incorporate them into your teaching.

Social Work Program Director Amanda Jones uses video to help her students prepare for real world practice

Success Spotlight / By Paul Keys

We spoke with Meredith’s Social Work Program Director Amanda Jones, MSW, LCSW, about an assignment she’s been giving her students in her SWK390 course, General Individual Practice. Can you describe the assignment? For the Experiential Interviewing Exercise (EIE) assignment, students are assigned a practice client (one of their classmates) and will work with that practice …

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Using Discussion Forums Effectively in Online Courses

Course Design / By Stephanie Ashby

Discussion forums have become common place among online courses, as they allow instructors and students to converse about the learning material despite not being in the same place. Often, however, discussion forums are poorly moderated and do not actually promote the deep learning that is desired.

Printing a Quiz from Brightspace

Brightspace / By Stephanie Ashby

While not perfect, there is a way to print a quiz directly from Brightspace. For example, there are cases where you might wish to provide a student a paper copy of a quiz. We’ll cover two different printing views Quiz questions only Quiz questions with correct answers included Quiz questions only Step 1: Start a …

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