Alternative Assessment Methods For Online Environment

Course Design /

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

Success Spotlight /

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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Meredith’s Office of Career Planning delivers Resume and Interview skills online.

Course Engagement, Success Spotlight /

Meredith’s Office of Career Planning (OCP) has been using online modules developed by the Instructional Design and Academic Technology team to extend the reach of their office to provide students with resume and interviewing skills. We talked to the OCP’s Katie Peterssen to learn more. Why did OCP decide to do these modules? Peterssen: OCP

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Digital Storytelling Project Spotlight – “Women Warriors” and their Callings

Other Instructional Tools, Success Spotlight /

For the Fall 2018 semester, Associate Professor of English, Kelly Roberts, Ph.D,  connected the summer reading book, Callings, by David Isay, with a digital storytelling project in her English 111 Principles of Writing course. Instructional Design Specialist Paul Keys, M.Ed, helped Roberts’s students use WeVideo, a cloud-based video editor, to complete their projects. We caught

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Is your course Active?

Brightspace /

Once your Brightspace course is ready for prime-time (allow learners to access), make your course active by going to COURSE ADMIN -> COURSE OFFERING INFORMATION and click checkbox next to “Course is Active” about half-way down the page and SAVE. EXAMPLE Only when an instructor has made the course active, will enrolled learners be able to

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Images – Creating Accessible Course Content

Accessibility /

For those of us that are not visually impaired an image can communicate a lot of information without words. However for those that are blind or visually impaired missing “alt text” results in a screen reader delivering the following information to the reader: “image”. This not really helpful if the purpose of the image is to support or illustrate a concept.

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