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Three Engaging Instructional Activities to Stimulate Active Learning

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In a recent LEC Newsletter Article, Leveraging Canvas and NSU Software in the Online Classroom, you were introduced to some of the tools you have available to stimulate active and learner-aligned strategies to students such as videos and zoom breakout rooms. This article presents three easy-to-setup activities that you can use immediately in your course to generate interest and increase student engagement. Think-Breakout-Share, Short Video Burst and Fishbowl Discussions are all presented.

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Shark Notes: Bringing the Outdoors Online: Creating Online Field Labs

Shark Notes

Hi Sharks! Shark Notes is a brief summary of article highlights that you may find helpful. Whenever we read an article we’d like to share, we’ll provide the link in our newsletter. Since you probably get quite a few suggested articles coming from colleagues, external companies, and so on, you can first read the Shark Notes to help decide whether you want to read further. Check out our third article recommendation along with the accompanying Shark Notes. We promise, there will not be a quiz! Bringing the Outdoors Online: Creating Online Field Labs https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/online-course-design-and-preparation/bringing-the-outdoors-online-creating-online-field-labs/?st=FFdaily%3Bsc%3DFF210301%3Butm_term%3DFF210301&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Bringing+the+Outdoors+Online%3A+Creating+Online+Field+Labs&utm_campaign=FF210301 Summary: During these unprecedented times, science teaching faculty are faced with the challenge of moving their lab courses to the online environment. This article presents strategies on how you can create online field labs throughout multiple semesters in an online course. The best practices in this article reinforce concepts to deliver successful and engaging online field labs. Highlights: Data Collection techniques – What powerful data collection tools can students use to collect data given to lacking access to the area and equipment? How can these tools be used to meet the learning objectives? The practice of science – Given a pre-collected data set, can students formulate a […]

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Visual Design – Back to Basics

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Facilitator: Eunice Luyegu, CPT, Ph.D., Curriculum Design Specialist/Assistant Professor Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences We invite you to join Dr. Luyegu and your colleagues on March 17th as we go Back to Basics on Visual Design. The purpose of this session is to share applicable visual design principles on aesthetics such as color, font, space, layout, and other elements. A simple, clear, and organized course promotes communication and improves students’ experience and engagement.

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Using Case Studies to Enhance Instructional Approaches and Students’ Learning Experiences

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Facilitator: Bertha Amisi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Halmos College of Arts and Sciences The purpose of this session is to discuss how case studies add value to instructional approaches and students learning experience. The session will include an overview of the idea of cases in the context of teaching, a presentation of my own use of cases as instructional and learning material, and a plenary discussion of effective use of cases to enhance learning and instruction. 

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Recording Available: LEC Guest Lecture Series – Leveraging the Flipped Classroom Paradigm for Efficient & Effective Outcomes

Leveraging Flipped Classroom

Leveraging the Flipped Classroom Paradigm for Efficient & Effective Outcomes Facilitator: Steven Kramer, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Decision Sciences, H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship The LEC is proud to present the recording from the first presentation of the Guest Lecture Series. In this video Dr. Steven Kramer shares his unique experience and perspectives on Flipping the classroom and how he best leverages that model to gain efficiency and effectiveness with classroom time. This workshop and additional video assets are all available in the LEC Faculty Development Channel.

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Three Engaging Instructional Activities to Stimulate Active Learning

In a recent LEC Newsletter Article, Leveraging Canvas and NSU Software in the Online Classroom, you were introduced to some of the tools you have available to stimulate active and learner-aligned strategies to students such as videos and zoom breakout rooms. This article presents three easy-to-setup activities that you can use immediately in your course to generate interest and increase student engagement. 

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Leveraging Canvas and NSU Software in the Online Classroom

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There was an excellent article recently on Faculty Focus by Tracey A. Carter, Student Engagement in the Online Classroom: Eight Quick Tips to Spark Students’ Learning. Often times we read articles such as these, and they mention practices paired with tools that we don’t have access to. We wanted to highlight these tips and provide you with some examples of how you can put these tips to use with the common software and tools in use at NSU.  Provide Lecture Outlines  Outlines are useful to students for a straightforward breakdown of what they are about to learn. As professors there are several ways to make outlines available to your students, here are a few suggestions:  Upload a Word or PDF document to your course and link the document in a page as part of your weekly or topical course modules. Present the document in your Zoom meeting, linking to it in your Zoom chat prior to starting.  Develop a short video that can be watched prior to starting your lecture. Videos can be uploaded to SharkMedia and embedded into a page accessible prior to the start of the lecture content.  Use Pre-course Videos and Subject Matter videos Constructively  Using software, you can record your webcam, your computer screen or both and create a short introductory video to the course or weekly modules. Recording videos is as easy […]

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Canvas Corner: Updated Features – MathJax, Gradebook: View Ungraded as Zero, Pretty HTML Editor

Canvas Corner Update

On February 20th, 2021, Canvas released 3 feature updates: MathJax is loaded if Canvas detects an equation image added by LaTeX delimited characters. Gradebook: View Ungraded as Zero is a visual change only and does not affect any grades. Pretty HTML Editor includes an enhancement to the Rich Content Editor in addition to the raw HTML editor. A comprehensive summary of these features is highlighted below. MathJax Summary LaTeX equations can be entered in any Canvas text field, and MathJax is loaded if Canvas detects an equation image added by delimited LaTeX characters. Benefit LaTeX equations can be entered in any Canvas text field, and MathJax is loaded if Canvas detects an equation image added by delimited LaTeX characters. Manually Entered Equations Equations can be added manually in any Canvas area that includes a text field, such as the title of an assignment or in a calendar event. Manual entries must be formatted according to LaTeX specifications. For help using the LaTeX Editor, please see the Canvas Equation Editor Advanced PDF. LaTex in the Calendar Text fields support MathJax $$ or /( delimiters to identify equations. Adding equations added in a \(…\) format indicates the equation should be in an […]

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Zoom News 3-8-2021 Using Slides as a Virtual Background

Zoom News

This week in Zoom news there isn’t much that is new, except a few minor tweaks. There are enhancements to Gallery View with Non-Video Participants and a clearer designation of shared content along with a few bug fixes.  Even though it isn’t cutting edge new, we wanted to be sure you were aware of the relatively new feature of sharing slides as a virtual background. This feature is perfect for the faculty member that wants to share a presentation while continuing to have presence in the presentation. If your system can utilize a virtual background this feature will be available for you in zoom versions 5.2.0 and higher.  There is a slight difference with how you share your screen, and you need to click on the Advanced Tab from the screen sharing options to access the feature, next you will need to load your presentation, but then you get to enjoy being within your slide and not being relegated to a box next to your presentation. You can position where on the slide your webcam video is shown and resize it as needed.  To read the full documentation on Using Slides as a Virtual Background check out this link from Zoom.    […]

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