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As a result of the 2020 global pandemic, more classes have moved into the online teaching space, and instructors are having to rethink the way they can engage with their students. One simple way to do this is by adding a Meet Your Instructor widget to your Brightspace course homepage(s). The Meet Your Instructor widget […]
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You’ve always given paper hard copy tests and now your expected to put those hundreds of questions into Brightspace. Sounds daunting doesn’t it? It doesn’t help that the Brightspace CSV import file is NOT user friendly 😨 Well thanks to a handy-dandy question generator tool from Algonquin College, we can skip retyping and spreadsheet formatting.
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While faculty continue to maneuver through the pandemic to ensure that students are retaining the content being taught, alternative assessment has become a staple in conversations as being a category of consideration for the classroom. Student learning can be demonstrated through many different but equitable assessment methods. In considering an alternative to an existing assessment,
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Google Drive can really streamline your work process and these quick tips will make it even better!
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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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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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.
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