Learning and Educational Center
With the emergence of AI, concerns are arising regarding the potential replacement of jobs by AI in the future. Nevertheless, it is essential to recognize that AI lacks the capacity for critical thinking skills. Consequently, it becomes important to teach students critical thinking skills, which not only impacts their academic success but also their chosen careers.
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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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When faculty members request technical support from the IT department to set up their classrooms for teaching, they stand to benefit in several ways. For starters, what we share simplifies the process of developing a welcoming and technologically advanced learning environment. Instructors may ensure that audio-visual equipment, digital resources, and other technical aspects work correctly with skilled guidance and support.
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Do you want to share your scholarly research with the world? Have you written a story that you want everyone to read? Come join us on Thursday, January 25, for a day of learning about academic and non-academic publishing from publishers, editors, agents, other authors, and NSU faculty and staff. You will not want to miss this opportunity to meet editors and reps from publishing houses including Elsevier, Emerald, IGI, Clarivate, IEEE, SAGE, Cambridge University Press and more. You can attend in person or online. Complimentary breakfast and lunch will be served to In-Person attendees.
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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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If you have writing assignments in your course, you already know that plagiarism can be a problem. This workshop will present the tool, Turnitin, which helps identify instances of potential plagiarism along with the newly added function of AI writing detection. 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, grammatical errors, and detecting AI-written essays.
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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.
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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.
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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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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! 🎉
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