Category: Past Events

A module-based structure can be beneficial to students by establishing a logical sequence of tasks and emphasizing the connections between course components. In this workshop, you will learn how to use module organization and scaffolded instruction to create an intuitive flow in your Canvas course. 

If you have writing assignments in your course, then you already know that plagiarism can be a problem. This workshop will present the tool, Turnitin, which helps identify instances of potential plagiarism. 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, as well as grammatical errors.

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. 

Have you ever had to have the alignment checked on your car because it kept veering to one side? Maybe you have had a spinal alignment done to relieve back pain.  Just like anything else that can lose effectiveness once the alignment is off track, your course can be misaligned and potentially throw your students off track.  A misaligned course contains gaps in learning objectives, activities, assignments, and/or assessments. In this one-hour workshop, we will discuss the components of well-written learning objectives and their connection, or alignment, to activities and assessments in your course. 

Facilitator: Dr. Aileen Miyuki Farrar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Literature, Halmos College of Arts & Sciences. Digital curriculum, or curriculum that emphasizes the use of technology to support or enhance learning environments and means of assessment, impacts the identities of those within education communities. In this session, we will explore the history and culture of hypertexts as a means of cultivating digital communities; the significance of digital communities to student learning; and the ways hypertextual class projects may exercise students’ comprehension and appreciation of cybercultural concepts regarding globalization, heterogeneity, and interconnectedness.

Register for a BlendFlex interactive training session and learn how to deliver face-to-face and online learning experiences simultaneously. After this mandatory online training, you will be able to do the following:

Facilitator: Tim Scala, Psy.D., Associate Professor/Licensed Clinical Supervisor Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice We invite you to join Dr. Scala and your colleagues on April 7th as we explore Infusing Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Into Distance & Blended Educational Environments. The purpose of this session is to assist faculty in understanding the importance of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and integrating concepts and strategies of SEL into online distance and blended educational environments. Common student challenges/concerns along with solutions will be discussed. Online resources will be provided that faculty can refer to and utilize in their courses. 

Facilitator: Jennifer Reeves, Ph.D. Director of Dissertation Support Services/Associate Professor Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice. Using Garrison, Anderson and Archer’s (2000) Community of Inquiry (CoI) Framework, this interactive presentation will focus on ways to create meaningful and lasting social presence in your online classes, meetings, and/or virtual conference.

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.

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.