Learning and Educational Center
Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse conducted a Student Voice survey of 2,000 undergraduate college students across the country. After more than a year of an increased focus on online education due to COVID-19, students around the country are returning to campus for in-person classes. As they prepare for their return, naturally people are asking what remains ahead for post-pandemic teaching and learning.
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In this one-hour session, we will define reflection, why it is important, and how it can be used in the classroom to facilitate transformational learning experiences in face-to-face, online, and blended learning environments.
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The Learning and Educational Center recently released three new Canvas course templates that support effective online teaching practices for faculty and students. Each template can save faculty valuable development time while bolstering their effort to ensure that courses are quality-focused and accessible to all learners. Now that you are aware of the new template options, you may be wondering how to use one or more of these templates in your course. Well, no wondering necessary! Let us help you navigate importing and taking advantage of the templates to suit your needs in our upcoming workshop on the New LEC 2021 Templates.
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To help students improve performance and achieve academic success, it is essential to make sure that all students feel included in the learning environment, especially in remote education. This article mentions existing indirect prejudices and offers recommendations to bring equity and inclusion to the learning community.
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Some of our recent LEC Newsletter articles shared the importance of captioning video content for advancing the accessibility of your course content. With the goal of improving course content accessibility in mind, the Office of Innovation and Information Technology recently upgraded our captioning service available within SharkMedia. The new service replaces Cielo 24 with Kaltura Captions Reach V2.
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Have you attended one or more workshops hosted by the LEC? Did you know that you can obtain a certificate of completion for any of these workshops? You may want to access, save, or print a certificate to keep in your records. Accessing your certificates is quick and easy.
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The LEC is proud to present the recordings from the presentations of the LEC Summer Series. In the first video, Marti Snyder defines reflection, and how it can be used in the classroom to facilitate transformational learning experiences in face-to-face, online, and blended learning environments. In the second video, Rita Shae-Van Fossen, shows how to create infographics using Piktochart to communicate course content and share ways to use infographics for learning. In the third video, Timothy Hoeck and Mary Young introduced the new LEC Course Templates available in Canvas Commons. They discussed the purpose of the templates along with how to import the templates into your course, provided details on editing the content, and discussed some tips and tricks on maintaining course quality.
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On the first day of class, students are often intimidated by a syllabus that looks more like legal documents than an invitation to learn. This leads to students just ignoring its contents and instructors constantly saying, “it’s in the syllabus”. Infographics offer a visual option for communicating key course content in a way that is engaging and more memorable. Participants in this hands-on session will learn how to create infographics using Piktochart (Canva can also be used) to communicate course content and share ways to use infographics for learning.
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Have you considered accessibility when designing your course? Do you know what it means for your course to be accessible? This article will help raise awareness of accessibility in your course and point you to tools or techniques for improving accessibility in your course.
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The LEC is proud to present the recordings from the presentation of the LEC Summer Series. In these videos, the facilitators share best practices with Canvas, TurnitIn, and discuss the components of well-written learning objectives and their connection, or alignment, to activities and assessments in your course.
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