by Thomas Keith | May 25, 2021 | Faculty Success Stories, Instructional design
Leslie Rogers, Assistant Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the College, used a Voices blog in her Fall 2020 undergraduate/graduate course “Order of Magnitude Astrophysics” as a tool to introduce her students to problem solving. In the...
by Sarah McDaniel | Mar 3, 2021 | Events, Instructional design, Services
“Social Annotation: Tools for Teaching Reading” was a collaboration between Remote Humanities and Academic Technology Solutions. For more on this event, see “Reflections in Online Pedagogy: Social Annotation Panel Recap” on the Remote Humanities blog. During the...
by Cecilia Lo | May 7, 2020 | Instructional design, Services
Credit: Hypothesis. Undergraduate English students annotating literary anthology by Robin De Rosa, Director of Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative, Plymouth State University. Update 11/20/2020: The Hypothesis pilot has been extended through June 30, 2021. In...
by Thomas Keith | Feb 19, 2020 | Instructional design, Services
The homepage of Prof. James Allen Evans’ digital exhibition on the history of science, Scipedia Note: This post was updated on 6/17/2020 to reflect updated information about Omeka. In Part 1 of this series we examined some basic types of image assignments, such as...
by Thomas Keith | Jan 23, 2020 | Instructional design, Services
Photo by Bench Accounting on Unsplash Starting in Winter Quarter 2020, faculty and staff can now attend live workshops online to learn how to use the updated features in Canvas’ New Gradebook. These workshops, which are being conducted via the Zoom web conferencing...
by Cosette Bruhns | Dec 17, 2019 | Instructional design, Services
Photo by Christopher Flynn on Unsplash Images (e.g. photographs, illustrations, and visual metaphors) can facilitate student engagement and understanding in classroom assignments by making abstract concepts tangible and providing a different way of illustrating...
