This Week in the LEC

What a fantastic year for the Learning and Educational Center! Thanks to our amazing LEC Advisory Committee, we hosted our second annual teaching and learning conference. We brought you fresh and exciting workshops on everything from AI to enhancing your Zoom sessions. This year, we integrated the LEC competency framework into all our offerings, connecting it to workshops and conference presentations. Our instructional design team rocked it, publishing articles on topics like accessibility and NSU-specific video tools. To champion quality teaching, we called on students to share thank you notes with their faculty, and the response was incredible – over 2000 messages of gratitude poured in! Cheers to a remarkable year in the LEC! 🎉

The LEC team authored several articles in 2023 with topics ranging from Harnessing generative AI tools for Assignments, Activities, and Assessments to Maximizing Student Engagement and Learning with NSU Video Tools. The team has also continued to produce informative, bite-sized videos in the Learning with the LEC series with videos on topics like Using Polls to Create Breakout Rooms in Zoom, Using the Accessibility Checker in Canvas, and Creating and Managing Assignments through the Canvas Calendar. If you’ve missed this wealth of information, we encourage you to take a look!

This year our initiatives kept us engaged with the faculty, where together we hosted the third annual Teaching and Learning Conference. We connected with faculty through DesignLink to help them improve course design and we also shared Thank You Notes with faculty from grateful students. Click the title above to learn more about these initiatives.

In 2023, we were fortunate to host workshops and presentations with faculty on topics like Generative AI, formative assessment, gamification, and interactive video tools while still continuing to share fundamental content on EdTech tools that NSU provides faculty. We were particularly proud of the Summer Sizzler Series where faculty members shared their best suggestions on Engaging Today’s Learners and Thank a Professor recipients unpacked their effective teaching techniques. Click on the title above to learn more and get links to the videos for these presentations and more.

Every day new Artificial Intelligence (AI) stories are in the news, on social media, and in your email promoting new “AI-driven” products. With the introduction of ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing, and Google Bard, more than likely, you have been unable to avoid hearing about AI, but do you really know what it is? How will generative AI affect education, your job, your life?