by Sarah Kettell | Aug 5, 2022 | Assessment
Teachers and students can benefit from assignments that promote incremental learning. We may all benefit from designing and rewarding step-by-step project development, re-assessment opportunities, and academic integrity.
by Sarah Kettell | Aug 5, 2022 | Assessment, Course Design & Plannning, Student Engagement, Technology
The University has a new tool to enhance student participation in your courses. Top Hat is a cloud-based audience participation solution with presentations, questions, and assignments built-in. In this session, faculty and learning designers will share the ways that Top Hat is being used in the classroom.
by Sarah Kettell | Aug 5, 2022 | Student Engagement
We have been using an Embedded Tutor/Learning Assistant enabled classroom. These programs have increased student understanding by enabling them to personally engage with the tutors and Learning Assistants. This engagement promotes a higher level of interaction between students and tutors/LAs and increased the use of the tutoring centers.
by Sarah Kettell | Aug 5, 2022 | Course Design & Plannning
Ensuring supportive and productive student-faculty engagement can be challenging in any learning environment, but particularly in the asynchronous online setting. In this session, faculty share some of the strategies they have used in their asynchronous courses to foster student engagement and create opportunities for student-faculty connection.
by Sarah Kettell | Aug 5, 2022 | Course Design & Plannning, Voices from the Field
Group projects are very useful assignments but are hated equally by both students and instructors when things don’t go as expected. This session will provide strategies for effectively setting up and facilitating group work that you can apply to your own courses.