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 …
The pandemic brought with it major shifts in education and an abundance of opportunities to try new strategies and practices. During Planning Week 2021 several faculty members presented some of their pandemic success and how these best practices can continue to be utilized as we adjust to a new normal. Lisa Pearce, Associate Professor of …
Foreign language courses are a unique challenge for fully asynchronous classes or even with a large class over Zoom. Are the students getting enough speaking practice time? How do you find the time to meet and check pronunciation? Well we’ll go over a few digital tools that can help you create community and conversation for …
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Creating opportunities for engaging interaction with course content is a big challenge for online courses. Luckily, there are any great tool to help along the way. VoiceThread is the tool you’ve been looking for to allow students to comment on videos and presentations in real time still provide flexibility to make comments anytime, not just …
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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In this video, Garry Walton, Ph.D., Mary Lynch Johnson Professor of English, talks about the challenges and opportunities of teaching Shakespeare in a 21st century classroom. Transcript One of the fundamental questions for any teacher, regardless of the grade level or the subject matter, is how to make the students fall in love with the …
Gamification doesn’t have to be hard. Learn how to use it to engage students and promote learning in the classroom.
Many instructors feel online learning does not offer the same opportunities or benefits as a traditional classroom. With the right tools, however, instructors can build online classroom communities that rival those of traditional, in-person courses.
