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Can all your students watch and learn? Part 2: Essential Elements of Captions
In Can All Your Students Watch and Learn? Part 1: Video and Audio Accessibility Considerations, we identified three types of pre-recorded time-based media and four alternatives for making them accessi...
Shorten, Focus, and Analyze: Boosting Student Engagement with Kaltura Video Analytics
There are several suggestions for creating optimal educational video content. First and foremost, only film and include content that’s absolutely necessary. Would you like students to watch your whole...
Creating a Dynamic and Inclusive Learning Environment in Zoom Classes
This training program is designed to transform your Zoom classes into engaging, inclusive, and productive learning spaces. Learn strategies to foster a sense of belonging, improve student interaction...
Innovative Approaches to Student Engagement: Gamified Learning and Parallel Thinking
In this panel, two educators share their creative strategies for enhancing student engagement. Seth Powless (Beaver) uses a flipped, gamified curriculum with application software that mirrors industry...
Faculty Panel: Atherton and Eisenhower Award Winners
Join us for the plenary session in which recipients of both the George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching Award and the Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching will discuss the...
Fostering Community and Engagement: Creating Supportive Learning Cultures in Different Classroom Environments
This session explores effective strategies to foster engagement and build community in educational settings. By prioritizing student connection and belonging, educators can create supportive environme...
Open Educational Resources: Finding & Integrating No- and Low-Cost Course Materials
This session will give an overview of the variety of OER and low-cost course materials options available to Penn State students, faculty, and staff. Participants will leave knowing where to search for...
A (Very Brief) Introduction to Copilot
Join Allain Daigle (Instructional Designer) for an interactive demo of Microsoft Copilot. We’ll go over how to access the tool, try it out, and begin to explore ideas on thoughtfully accounting for ge...
Teaching on the DLC Orientation: Part 1 Setting up for Success
Join us for a 2-part series designed to guide your preparations to teach a DLC course to students at multiple campuses. These 1-hour sessions will cover the essentials from logistical processes to ped...
Commonwealth Connections: Instructor Days, Fall 2024
On August 14th and 15th, join colleagues from the Penn State Commonwealth Campuses to energize for the upcoming semester.
Faculty Pop-Up Training Series: Moving the Dial on Accessibility – Anthology Ally
This session will provide an overview of the Anthology Ally tool and discuss strategies to increase the usability of content.
Faculty Pop-Up Training Series: Top Hat – Active Learning Using Student Polling
Join us to set up Top Hat to use with your classes as an audience response and polling system.
Faculty Pop-Up Training Series: More than a Zoom link: Teaching to a Class and a Zoom Room
This session will showcase several strategies and tools specifically designed to support teaching a mixed mode course.
Faculty Pop-Up Training Series: AI Tools
Explore several Artificial Intelligence tools to consider how you might encourage or discourage student use.
Faculty Pop-Up Training Series: AI Literacy Canvas Modules
Tour Penn State’s Canvas Module on Artificial Intelligence. This student-focused material can be imported into any course.
Faculty Pop-Up Training Series: Digital Whiteboards
Discover innovative ways to engage with your students using digital whiteboards in Microsoft or Zoom.
Faculty Pop-Up Training Series: Accessibility Tools
Learn about the latest accessibility features to create an inclusive learning environment for all students.
The Power of Personalization: How Faculty Can Boost Student Success
Only about 65% of students who enroll in colleges and universities in the U.S. graduate within 6 years (U.S. Department of Education, 2021). This alarming figure has triggered significant concern rega...
Can We Share a Secret? Spotlighting Some Little-Known Tools Available at Penn State
Join us to hear how we created WestLaw video tutorials using Kaltura Capture to record user-friendly guides, and Canva to design a research poster on peer support for Math word problems. Both Westlaw...
Active Learning Strategies
There are many ways to engage students with active learning. Join us as Lori and Hannah describe activities that have proven to be quite effective at getting students involved and producing deeper lea...