Learning and Educational Center
This year our initiatives kept us engaged with the faculty, where together we hosted the third annual Teaching and Learning Conference. We connected with faculty through DesignLink to help them improve course design and we also shared Thank You Notes with faculty from grateful students. Click the title above to learn more about these initiatives.
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In 2023, we were fortunate to host workshops and presentations with faculty on topics like Generative AI, formative assessment, gamification, and interactive video tools while still continuing to share fundamental content on EdTech tools that NSU provides faculty. We were particularly proud of the Summer Sizzler Series where faculty members shared their best suggestions on Engaging Today’s Learners and Thank a Professor recipients unpacked their effective teaching techniques. Click on the title above to learn more and get links to the videos for these presentations and more.
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The Learning and Educational Center would like to wish you a Happy Holiday Season! May your holidays sparkle with moments of love and goodwill, and may the year ahead be full of contentment and joy. Warm wishes from the LEC!
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If you have writing assignments in your course, you already know that plagiarism can be a problem. This workshop will present the tool, Turnitin, which helps identify instances of potential plagiarism along with the newly added function of AI writing detection. During the workshop, you will learn about the various ways in which Turnitin can be used in your Canvas course so that you can begin screening writing assignments for plagiarism, grammatical errors, and detecting AI-written essays.
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Every day new Artificial Intelligence (AI) stories are in the news, on social media, and in your email promoting new “AI-driven” products. With the introduction of ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing, and Google Bard, more than likely, you have been unable to avoid hearing about AI, but do you really know what it is? How will generative AI affect education, your job, your life?
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This in-person workshop will enable participants to experience immersive learning technologies (VR/AR/MR/xR) exploring human anatomy, physiology, and disease. The participants will have an opportunity to embody a patient in an immersive first-person experience from the patient’s perspective. The immersive technologies support skill development in the health professions practice and can also be used to facilitate learning in other contexts like neuroscience, engineering, math, and more. During this workshop, participants will have a full hands-on experience on varied immersive learning technologies.
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Engaging students at a distance and in the classroom can present challenges. Poll Everywhere provides a way to interact with your students with activities designed to ask questions, drive participation in group activities, and encourage students to share thoughts and insights from their phones or computers.
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We are absolutely thrilled to introduce our newest initiative, DesignLink, aimed at fostering stronger connections with our incredible instructional design team. Here at the Learning and Educational Center (LEC), we are dedicated to enhancing teaching and learning experiences, and DesignLink is the perfect gateway to achieving just that! Are you looking to revitalize your course materials, explore innovative teaching strategies, or boost student engagement? Look no further than our DesignLink initiative!
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We want to extend our heartfelt gratitude for your participation in Destination Excellence: A Journey to Engaged Teaching and Learning. We hope that you enjoyed learning from and with your peers at this year’s Conference. Our destination was excellence, and we hope that you are finding success on your journey to engaged teaching and learning.
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This fall, the Learning and Educational Center (LEC) has hosted a series of fireside chats focused on generative AI for teaching and learning. Each session begins with an introduction to the guiding question followed by an open discussion of related issues, questions, and ideas. We conclude each session with a review of important considerations and a list of resources. There is only one more session remaining for the semester on December 1st 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. via Zoom. This has been an opportunity to learn and share with colleagues and think about how we might integrate generative AI into our own teaching and research.
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