Need Course Design Assistance? Check Out DesignLink and Connect with an LEC Instructional Designer

We are absolutely thrilled to introduce our newest initiative, DesignLink, aimed at fostering stronger connections with our incredible instructional design team. Here at the Learning and Educational Center (LEC), we are dedicated to enhancing teaching and learning experiences, and DesignLink is the perfect gateway to achieving just that! Are you looking to revitalize your course materials, explore innovative teaching strategies, or boost student engagement? Look no further than our DesignLink initiative!

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Want to Share a Session from this year’s LEC Teaching and Learning Conference? Session Recordings have been posted

We want to extend our heartfelt gratitude for your participation in Destination Excellence: A Journey to Engaged Teaching and Learning. We hope that you enjoyed learning from and with your peers at this year’s Conference. Our destination was excellence, and we hope that you are finding success on your journey to engaged teaching and learning.

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LEC’S Virtual Friday Fireside Chats: Generative AI for Teaching & Learning

This fall, the Learning and Educational Center (LEC) has hosted a series of fireside chats focused on generative AI for teaching and learning. Each session begins with an introduction to the guiding question followed by an open discussion of related issues, questions, and ideas. We conclude each session with a review of important considerations and a list of resources. There is only one more session remaining for the semester on December 1st 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. via Zoom. This has been an opportunity to learn and share with colleagues and think about how we might integrate generative AI into our own teaching and research.

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Workshop: Transform Your Students’ Video-Watching Experience with Annoto

If you want to increase student engagement and personalize feedback within your Shark Media videos, the Annoto Widget workshop was created just for you. The Annoto widget is a tool that integrates with Shark Media and can be used in Canvas enabling you to add interactive elements to your videos. You can use it to create questions, quizzes, surveys, polls, and discussions that appear on the video timeline. You and your students can also use it to annotate your videos with highlights, notes, links, and images.

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Workshop: How to Build a Branching Scenario in SharkMedia

Sharkmedia has been enhanced with an exciting feature from Kaltura called Interactive Video Paths. Interactive Videos enable you to create a more personalized, “choose your own adventure” learning experience by adding choice-based learning paths to your videos. Interactive videos are well known for their ability to increase viewer’s participation, reduce cognitive overload, maximize retention, and provide real world learning experiences. This workshop will explore pedagogical tips and technology tools for assembling an engaging interactive video path through a step-by-step process that will help you to make your own interactive video learning experience for students. Register today!

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Workshop: Creating Interesting and Engaging Discussions with Flip

Flip is an easy-to-use tool to foster strong connections within a Canvas course. This tool is offered to educators for free and can be integrated into your Canvas Course to allow students and you the opportunity to record their responses to topics in fun and innovative ways. The social experience of letting students use creativity in composing their video allows them to engage with a topic that stimulates thought-provoking responses from the students and can also be entertaining. Join us to learn more about using this engaging tool in your courses.

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Conference Seats are Filling Up – Register Today! – Connect with Colleagues from Across NSU at a No-Cost Teaching & Learning Conference

Please plan to join your colleagues at our annual conference Destination Excellence: A Journey to Engaged Teaching and Learning. The conference represents NSU’s collective ambition to create an educational environment that nurtures critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration. It recognizes that excellence is not a stagnant endpoint but an ongoing journey, requiring continuous improvement and adaptation. Please plan to join us by registering today!

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Workshop: All About SharkMedia

Videos are often the most highly engaging pieces of content in a course. Videos can be used to introduce new course content, reinforce concepts already learned, share demonstrations, simulations, and much more. You may know that NSU has a media server called SharkMedia which is our branded version of Kaltura. During this workshop, we will review the many capabilities of the SharkMedia platform. We will show you where you can find every function in the platform, from uploading videos, all the way to creating chapter markers and playlists for your students.

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Harnessing generative AI tools for Assignments, Activities, and Assessments

Now that generative AI (gAI) has become available to the wider public, there has been a lot of discussion about the implications of these tools on the world of higher education. One of the interesting areas for exploration is the ability to leverage the use gAI for coursework such as assignments, activities, and assessments. Ideas are continually emerging, and the possibilities seem endless. This article provides a few examples and starts to answer the question of how can gAI be used as both a student tool for learning and a faculty tool for designing learning.

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