LEC 2025 Year in Review: Articles
Enhancing Your Canvas Course with LinkedIn Learning Videos
Do you want to captivate your students with high-quality, engaging content while saving time on lesson preparation? Integrating LinkedIn Learning videos into Canvas offers faculty a powerful way to enhance their courses.
By embedding these professionally produced videos, instructors can boost student engagement with visually appealing content that encourages interaction and deeper learning.
Mindset Matters: Fueling Student Motivation and Success
Mindset science reveals that students’ beliefs about their abilities strongly influence their learning motivation (Dweck, 2006). Students’ academic mindsets are crucial for their achievements in their classes. Research reveals that teachers can significantly improve student mindsets, leading to better perseverance and learning outcomes, by adapting their instructional practices (Farrington et al., 2012).
Testing is Learning
We most often think of testing as a way to assess what was learned by a student. And it is. But it is also more than that. The act, itself, of being “tested” also produces measurable learning and long-term retention of material and may even be more effective at long-term retention than studying is. The type of testing that accomplishes this is testing that occurs between learning and a final, or summative, test.
Sleep, Wakeful Rest, Spacing, and Memory…
As educators, we are often exploring the science of how learning works, and how teaching can be most effective. Naturally, we want our students to absorb and retain information at the highest rate possible. It is therefore valuable to explore the science of memory and retention of information. When do the things we learn become encoded in our memory and how can we maximize retention through our understanding of how the brain works?
Using Multimedia Resource to Impact Online Learning
There are many intriguing technology resources that are available for teaching and learning. Psychology professor Richard Mayer, whose research on The Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning, explores how blending various forms of media can help learners with retention. The integration of video, audio, and images in online course design offers alternative avenues for student engagement, particularly for those who face reading challenges or may benefit more from visual and auditory learning modalities.
Adobe Express for Faculty and Students
Faculty and students at NSU now have access to Adobe Express for Education, a cloud-based platform for creating visual presentations, graphics, multimedia projects and more. The platform includes thousands of templates that can be utilized, “remixed”, and assigned as a starting point for assignments, along with access to Adobe stock photos and generative AI features, giving your students creative tools to demonstrate knowledge in ways other than written text. Both students and instructors have access with a single sign- on using their NSU credentials. Faculty members have access to the Adobe Education Exchange where they can find resources to help them develop classroom assignments along with tutorials on how to use Adobe Express for teaching.