Learning and Educational Center
Project-based learning (PBL) has been shown to be a powerful tool in the classroom. This method can also be used effectively in the online teaching environment. In this presentation, we will discuss how PBL can be used in today’s environment to enhance students’ learning engagement, improve their academic performance, and teach them to apply course knowledge to the real world.
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In this session, we will discuss some useful theories, models, and frameworks for effectively structuring your online course and engaging your students in an online community.
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In this session, we will discuss how to use instructional design and backward design to create an online course.
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Rhetorical embodiment is a complex concept that allows us to understand the ways that our socialization and conditioning impacts our performance of self. As educators, we believe that is the only thing we can embody in the classroom. The purpose of this session is to explore the intersection of rhetorical embodiment and the fostering of knowledge acquisition as a way to shift our course design to share student agency and thus, their engagement. As Fountain notes, “we develop expertise when we develop the skilled capacities necessary to use the discourses and objects, the displaces and documents, according to the explicit and tacit rules of that community. (Fountain, 5) This session will help us understand how we can create student agency by providing opportunities for embodiment.
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In this workshop, we will explore strategies for making online courses more accessible and inclusive. All students can benefit from intentional course design.
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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. The workshop will use a blended flipped type of experience where the participants will first go into the Canvas course to view the course material that explains the procurement of a Poll Everywhere account, how to download and install the Poll Everywhere app to PowerPoint, and short videos introducing the Poll Everywhere software. After completing the Canvas portion, the participant will be granted access to the zoom link for the live Zoom session.
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Register Now! NSU Libraries’ 7th Annual Power Publishing Day, Thursday, January 27 – FREE EVENT Do you want to share your scholarly research with the world? Come join us for a day of learning about academic publishing from the publishers, editors, and faculty. You will not want to miss this opportunity to meet editors and reps from publishing houses including Clarivate, Elsevier, Emerald, IEEE, IGI, SAGE, Taylor & Francis, and more. Learn about: getting your research published, including case studies navigating the peer review process publishing initiatives for Open Access strategies for finding the right publisher and more… Plus, network with your colleagues and other academics in our community. There is no cost to attend but registration is required and can be done through lib.nova.edu/ppd22. You can attend in person or online. Complimentary breakfast and lunch will be served. This event is open to NSU faculty, staff, students, alumni, and the public. The event will be held at the Alvin Sherman Library at 3100 Ray Ferrero Jr. Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314. If you can’t make it to the event, email Susan Berkman at sberkman@nova.edu to request the presentation recordings.
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In this session, we will discuss some foundational terms and definitions, different types of delivery modes, key competencies of online instructors, and emerging trends in online teaching and learning.
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This was a year of transition and dynamic change. With the global pandemic, and with the return to our campus, faculty made the heroic effort to transform their classroom experiences from the BlendFlex model to the face-to-face classroom in a very short time. The Learning and Educational Center (LEC) hosted a series of workshops, deeply rooted in teaching pedagogy, organized training for faculty, published articles, and created videos to support our mission to improve the quality of teaching and learning at NSU. Towards the end of the year, our Brand New LEC Faculty Studio was brought to life! Finally, we were able to implement the Thank-a-Professor Program to allow our NSU Students to send Thank-You notes to our Teaching Faculty for the amazing work that you do in your classroom! In case you missed these, below are links to some of the articles, Shark Notes, and videos along with some data on the workshops that we hosted and co-hosted with some of our university partners in 2021. Review of LEC Articles in 2021 The LEC published several articles in 2021 ranging with topics from Classroom Management, Teaching, and Instruction, BlendFlex, Instructional Strategies, Accessibility, Writing Course Objectives and took a deep dive at the Role of Motivation in Online Learning. If you missed them, here are […]
Read moreEducation is a caring practice. As such, it is important to consider the effectiveness of the technologies we use for promoting productivity, supporting student engagement, and facilitating a student’s acquisition of disciplinary knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
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