by Thomas Keith | May 7, 2019 | Instructional design, Services
This post is an installment in an ongoing series that explores possibilities for creative classroom assignments. We will showcase courses that have successfully employed creative assignments, and introduce tools and strategies that can help your students...
by Aidan Kaplan | Feb 1, 2019 | Instructional design, Services
Why Podcasts? Podcasting can be a creative assignment that encourages students to engage with a topic aurally and orally in addition to simply via text. By engaging the senses more deeply, students gain a more comprehensive understanding of the topic. A podcast is an...
by Thomas Keith | Nov 16, 2018 | Instructional design
Academic dishonesty, which encompasses behaviors such as cheating, plagiarism, and falsification of data or citations, is a widespread and troubling phenomenon in higher education. (For the full spectrum of behaviors that qualify as academic dishonesty, see Berkeley...
by Aidan Kaplan | Oct 24, 2018 | Instructional design, Services
Alert: Kaltura will be retired as a service on December 27, 2019. For more information, please visit: Panopto Is UChicago’s New Video Management Platform Why use videos for language teaching? Video is everywhere—people watch over 1 billion hours of video each day on...
by Aidan Kaplan | Sep 13, 2018 | Faculty Success Stories, Instructional design
“The part of teaching that I enjoy the most is the direct interaction with students. My main goal with flipping the classroom was to increase the quality of our limited contact time.” —Prof. Britni Ratliff What is a flipped classroom? The main idea in a...
