This Week in the LEC

Learning begins with engaged students. In this session, our focus will be on our students. Who are they? What do they value? What are their learning preferences? What are their challenges and motivations? How has the pandemic affected their preparedness and disposition? Having a better understanding of our learner audience will help us, as educators, design, facilitate, and manage learning experiences that promote engagement and motivation.

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.

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.

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.

Looking to learn from the best and brightest in academia? Join us for an exciting panel discussion featuring faculty who were recognized during this year’s Thank-a-Professor program. During this session, you’ll have the opportunity to hear from faculty members who have been acknowledged by students for their incredible teaching and dedication to student success. Our panelists will share their tips, tricks, and strategies for engaging students, creating an inclusive classroom environment, and fostering meaningful learning experiences. Whether you’re a new NSU educator looking to improve your teaching skills or a seasoned instructor who is looking for some new ideas, this session is for you.

Annoto transforms passive video viewing into an active, collaborative experience that provides you with actionable insights regarding student learning and engagement. It enables students to contribute, share and learn together, experience videos as an interactive group experience, and keep a personal journal of notes. Join our Customer Success Manager from Annoto for Training and get started with Annoto today.

During this fast-paced workshop, we will share unique features about the tools that you use every day but may not know everything about. We will demonstrate and discuss use cases for Canvas Features like Page History, Emoji, Undelete, and Discussion Enhancements along with Zoom Tools for Role-Playing Scenarios

The Learning and Educational Center’s (LEC’s) Educator Competency Framework can be used to help educators improve their teaching and learning effectiveness. This framework comprises five competency categories with associated knowledge, skills, and attitudes that we believe all NSU educators should possess. The five categories are: acting with integrity, embracing belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion, creating learner-centered environments, designing effective learning experiences, and using innovative teaching strategies and technology. Join the discussion about the framework and how faculty, staff and administrators can use it to guide their professional development actvities.