Category: Past Events

Are you looking to hone your online teaching skills? The LEC is excited to announce its Fall lineup of faculty professional development including its new Wednesday Workshop Series, which focuses on the Foundations of Teaching Online. Whether you’re new to teaching online or are looking for new ideas to implement in your online and blended classes, our Wednesday Workshop Series will introduce you to the basics of teaching and learning in online and blended learning environments. While the workshops focus on strategies for teaching online, most can be applied to any modality.

In this workshop, we will discuss the foundational knowledge and skills needed to teach effectively in Canvas. While this session is not training on how to build courses in Canvas, participants will gain an overall understanding of how the Canvas LMS is used at NSU, what Canvas components should be included in academic courses, and where to find help and support.

This workshop is designed to show you different classroom technologies that can assist you in enhancing your online, blended, or face-to-face classroom experience. The instructor will take you step by step through each topic by telling you what it is, why would you use it, and demonstrate how to use it before you try it.

Creating accessible PowerPoints is easy using Microsoft’s built-in accessibility checker. In this presentation, Carolyn Fitzpatrick will review common accessibility mistakes in PowerPoint, and demonstrate how to fix them quickly. 

Active learning modalities of teaching are instructional undertakings involving students participating in an engaging manner in their education. Approaches that promote active learning focus more on developing students’ skills instead of transmitting information through a traditional didactic lecture setup which can be relative, a more passive level of participation for the student. Active learning sessions require students to indulge actively (read, discuss, write, analyze) that requires higher-order and critical thinking, and emphasis is placed on the students’ explorations of their own attitudes and values. This presentation explores the different modalities which practice an active learning format, insights into the facilitation of these sessions, and measurement of student outcomes of these sessions. 

Before classes officially start, students begin accessing your course in Canvas. What do they see? A course welcome video allows students to become familiar with you and your course before class actually starts. During this in-person workshop, Gregory, an experienced multimedia producer, will show you around the video editing tool Adobe Rush and share some basic video editing principles. Be sure to bring your previously recorded video content to edit. If you don’t have a video, you can schedule a time to film in the new LEC Faculty Studio. If you prefer to film the video on your own, the presenter Gregory Wright has created a video with some easy-to-implement suggestions to improve your video quality. By the conclusion of the workshop, you will have a welcome video that can be used in your course to greet your students.

NSUWorks, NSU’s institutional repository, and SelectedWorks, the online professional profile system, work together to curate content for the Digital Commons network of repositories for dissemination of your scholarly output to the world at large. Digital Measures is NSU’s internal review and tracking system for faculty to keep track of their professional activities. Part 1 of this 2-part series will discuss how these three systems work at NSU, explain your college process for adding your scholarly contributions into these systems, and provide think-tank opportunities for the creation of new scholarly work for yourself and your students. Part 2 will be a hands-on workshop experience to show you how to manage your SelectedWorks profile effectively on your own.

In this workshop, we will define Instructional Design (ID) and discuss how ID principles are used to develop course objectives, sequence content, create authentic assessments, and create web-based content that supports learning content that aligns with your learning objectives.

In this workshop, we will explore strategies for making online courses more accessible and inclusive. All students can benefit from intentional course design.

In this workshop, we will discuss key assumptions for teaching online, identify theories, models, and frameworks that support online pedagogy, and how they can be used to guide online course design and facilitation.