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Enhance Your Course Materials with LinkedIn Learning
Perhaps you’ve already used LinkedIn Learning to acquire a new skill or learn a new piece of software. But have you considered leveraging LinkedIn Learning as a supplement to your teaching materials? From people skills like communication strategies and leadership to...
Effective Design Principles and Accessibility for Gamifying Your Classes
Want to engage your students by incorporating gamification into your classes? This blog post shares four design principles for creating gamified activities and discusses factors to consider in order to design with accessibility in mind. Design Principles Breaking down...
Join ATS and Fellow UChicago Instructors to Explore Social Annotation for Learning
This post is part of an ongoing series to promote active learning strategies and teaching tools that can support instructors in using them. Since last Spring, Academic Technology Solutions (ATS) has hosted the new active learning series Try IT: Academic Tech for...
Try IT Event Series Continues: Explore Classroom Polling
Academic Technology Solutions (ATS) is continuing its event series Try IT: Academic Tech for Active Learning in Autumn 2023. This event series explores tools, techniques, and tips for engaging students in the classroom, with a special focus on how digital tools...
Digital Pedagogy and Critical Pedagogy: Understanding Critical Pedagogy
The author wishes to thank ATS instructional designers Michael Hernandez and Joe Olivier for their excellent feedback and suggestions, which helped him to improve this article. He remains solely responsible for any errors or omissions therein. Introduction: Series...
Seeking Early and Midterm Student Feedback
If you teach at UChicago, you are probably familiar with how students can provide formal feedback on the courses you teach towards the end of the quarter. The University Registrar administers the Course Feedback process, and you are able to add customized questions,...
Digital Tools for Teaching Writing, Part 1: Writing as Process
This three-part series explores a wide range of digital tools and pedagogical strategies that support writing instruction. Over these three posts, we will consider a diverse array of writing-related goals and instructional contexts from across the disciplines. This...
Five Tips for Using Canvas as a Student
UChicago Canvas is your one-stop shop for accessing and organizing your classes as a student at UChicago, but are you using it to its full potential? Ensuring that you’re comfortable and familiar with the platform will allow you to get the most out of your courses and...
Beginning the New Academic Year with Accessible and Inclusive Digital Syllabi
This post offers a pedagogical and technical grounding for accessible and inclusive syllabus (re-)design using digital tools. To explore these topics and tools at greater length, consider registering for the upcoming ATS workshop Accessible and Inclusive Digital...
Cultural Issues and the Pursuit of Academic Integrity (Combating Academic Dishonesty, Part 8)
Author’s Note: This is the latest installment in an ongoing series concerned with issues of academic integrity, particularly as they relate to classroom technologies. To view the previous installments, please see the Academic Integrity tag on our website. ATS...
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