A Comprehensive Review of 2022

This was a great year for the Learning and Educational Center. Once again, we enjoyed working with our amazing faculty on their courses, hosting a variety of workshops with University partners and NSU faculty members, and exploring new ground. Our LEC Advisory Council formed a subcommittee to host a Teaching and Learning Conference for all NSU employees and the event was a huge success. Additionally, the LEC Advisory Council helped form a competency framework for NSU educators. Our Faculty Studio continued to serve faculty who wanted to add high-quality video content to their courses and because of the tremendous response of students and faculty alike, we continued our Thank a Professor initiative, the results of which will be shared during the new year.

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LEC Articles in 2022

Team members from across the LEC drafted and published several articles in 2022 with topics ranging from Considering Course Design for Affective Learning to 15 Ways to Engage your Students. In addition to the articles, LEC team members produced short informative videos on the educational technology platforms used at NSU. We promise that you will find something new in the Learning with the LEC Video series. These articles and videos published throughout the year might deserve a second read or second look.

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LEC Initiatives in 2022

Thanks to the vision and perseverance of our dedicated LEC Advisory Council this year we held our inaugural Teaching and Learning Conference. We are so grateful for the commitment of our presenters and participants that made the event successful. In the coming months, you will hear more about our other new initiative, the NSU Educator Competency Framework. We also can’t wait to share the many thank you notes that students submitted for this year’s Thank a Professor initiative.

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Creating Captions and Editing with SharkMedia

Our video management software SharkMedia (aka Kaltura) is enormously powerful if you know where to look. This session is dedicated to showing you some quick tips for editing your video all on the web using SharkMedia. SharkMedia can also provide automated captions for your videos in addition to the editing options of snipping video as well as capturing your screen recordings. Join us as we go over these features and answer your questions about SharkMedia (Kaltura). 

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Did You Know? Quick Tips on Classroom Technology: Rubrics

Rubrics are a valuable tool for both instructors and students. They are especially useful for written assignments and projects where quality may be hard to define, and grading can be interpreted as being subjective. For instructors, rubrics help to clarify expectations and components for an assignment. They also help to assess assignments consistently from one student to another and they cut down time spent on grading.

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