Professor of History Dan Fountain spoke to us about the North Carolina Women’s Oral History Collection, including the history of the project and how those working on it adapted capture methods during the pandemic. Tell us about the project. We’ve been doing oral histories at Meredith for over 15 years. It began with a partnership …
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Around the world, instruction is increasingly delivered asynchronously online, with educators facing new challenges and searching for ways to maintain rigor and quality content. As online education has emerged across mainstream higher education, an increasing number of MPA programs are offering online courses, hybrid courses and entire degree programs online (Naylor and Wilson, 2009; Powell, 2007). …
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Faced with having to fill in while multiple colleagues were out, and always looking for new ways to engage students, Director of the Dietetic Internship program Cathie Ostrowski used an Escape Room activity to solve both challenges. On the video below, Cathie guides you through how she used Google Slides and Forms to create this …
There now new ways for students and instructors to track work and submissions in Brightspace! We’ve added 2 new widgets to homepages Work to Do widget for students The Work to Do widget shows upcoming, due, and overdue work. Students can see the work for a course on the course homepage OR work for all …
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A discussion with Dr. Lanae Hood on the nutrition resource map created for Hunger Week 2022. What did you do? Dr. Lanae Hood and nutrition graduate students in Program Planning and Evaluation collaborated with Paul Keys to create an interactive basic needs resource map for Meredith College students. This was part of a class project …
Previously we discussed how to use backwards design to design an entire course. You can apply some backwards design principles when creating your modules as well. Brightspace’s HTML editor and Insert Stuff tool are great for creating modules that provide clarity to your students by keeping the rationale for your decisions easily accessible and in …
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Numerous instructional and course design models depend upon “backwards design” as their prime organizing principle. Many instructors start by deciding which content they want to include in their course, then decide on assessments, then course objectives. Backwards design reverses that process, making content the last thing you would choose. Flower Darby, in her book Small …
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Oftentimes instructors need a simple, repeatable process to help them when they are in the weeds of course design. One such process is Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction. Robert Gagné was an American educational psychologist best known for developing multiple systems for simplifying and delivering instruction. He pioneered the science of instruction during World War …
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Course Builder is an alternate way to build your course and then make changes to it without using the Content editor in Brightspace. Many who use Course Builder think it provides a cleaner interface in which to see your entire course in a small area of screen space. This is a brief navigation video of …
