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Conference Seats are Filling Up – Register Today! – Connect with Colleagues from Across NSU at a No-Cost Teaching & Learning Conference

October 25, 2023 thoeck

Please plan to join your colleagues at our annual conference Destination Excellence: A Journey to Engaged Teaching and Learning. The conference represents NSU’s collective ambition to create an educational environment that nurtures critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration. It recognizes that excellence is not a stagnant endpoint but an ongoing journey, requiring continuous improvement and adaptation. Please plan to join us by registering today!

Workshop: All About SharkMedia

October 23, 2023 thoeck

Videos are often the most highly engaging pieces of content in a course. Videos can be used to introduce new course content, reinforce concepts already learned, share demonstrations, simulations, and much more. You may know that NSU has a media server called SharkMedia which is our branded version of Kaltura. During this workshop, we will review the many capabilities of the SharkMedia platform. We will show you where you can find every function in the platform, from uploading videos, all the way to creating chapter markers and playlists for your students.

Harnessing generative AI tools for Assignments, Activities, and Assessments

October 21, 2023 thoeck

Now that generative AI (gAI) has become available to the wider public, there has been a lot of discussion about the implications of these tools on the world of higher education. One of the interesting areas for exploration is the ability to leverage the use gAI for coursework such as assignments, activities, and assessments. Ideas are continually emerging, and the possibilities seem endless. This article provides a few examples and starts to answer the question of how can gAI be used as both a student tool for learning and a faculty tool for designing learning.

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Learning with the LEC: Using Polls to Create Breakout Rooms in Zoom

October 15, 2023 thoeck

This “Learning with LEC” video shares a brand new tip with you – creating breakout rooms based on the poll results in Zoom. This new feature of Zoom helps you create more engaging and customized breakout sessions for your participants.

Learning with the LEC

Maximizing Student Engagement and Learning with NSU Video Tools

October 2, 2023 thoeck

Educational videos have become an important content-delivery tool in higher education. Video learning can be a great supplement to traditional learning methods in higher education. Passive engagement with videos is insufficient for learning. In this article we share several tools that you can use to create more active engagement with your video content that are available from NSU.

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Workshop: Getting Started with Poll Everywhere for Classroom Engagement

October 1, 2023 thoeck

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.

Workshop: Turnitin, Plagiarism, and AI Writing Detection in Canvas

September 29, 2023 thoeck

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.

Save the Date! Destination Excellence: A Journey to Engaged Teaching and Learning

September 25, 2023 thoeck

Mark your calendars for Wednesday, November 1st, and Thursday, November 2nd, 2023, for the Learning and Educational Center’s Teaching and Learning Virtual Conference! More information and the Call for Proposals will open in August and registration will open in early October. All NSU faculty, staff, and students who are interested in improving their teaching and learning research and practice are welcome to submit a proposal and attend the conference.

Workshop: All About Canvas Rubrics

September 24, 2023 thoeck

Join us for an exciting workshop ‘All About Canvas Rubrics’! In this 55-minute session, you will discover how to use Canvas Rubrics to provide clear and consistent feedback to students, save time grading, and improve the quality of student work. You will learn about different types of rubrics, including holistic, analytic, single-point, and customized rubrics, and discover how to create and use them effectively in your course.

Workshop: How to Build a Branching Scenario in SharkMedia

September 9, 2023 thoeck

Lights, Camera, Action! Would you like to create an interactive video? Sharkmedia has been enhanced with an exciting feature from Kaltura called Interactive Video Paths. Interactive Videos enable you to create a more personalized, “choose your own adventure” learning experience by adding choice-based learning paths to your videos. Interactive videos are well known for their ability to increase viewer’s participation, reduce cognitive overload, maximize retention, and provide real world learning experiences. This workshop will explore pedagogical tips and technology tools for assembling an engaging interactive video path through a step-by-step process that will help you to make your own interactive video learning experience for students. Register today!

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