Live Discussion: Overview of the LEC’s Educator Competency Framework

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.

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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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Workshop: Using SharkMedia to Create Branched Video Scenarios

Lights, Camera, Action! Would you like to create an interactive video? 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.

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Article: Bite-Sized Learning

Our digitally connected world may be changing how people learn along with their need to retain information. Since technology makes it easy to stay connected, it is becoming increasingly difficult to function without accessing the Internet for tasks like checking emails, social networking, settling arguments, shopping, and almost every day-to-day activity. The internet has also increasingly become a place where people go to learn. The increasing desire to be socially connected and have an awareness of the world around us creates constraints on our time which have encouraged the growth of microlearning. Technology has made it simpler to offer and access small pieces of educational content through a well-known instructional design technique known as chunking (Gobet, 2005). Because of this shift, microlearning has become appealing in some learning environments.

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Workshop: Turnitin, Plagiarism, and AI Writing Detection in Canvas

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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How and Why Canvas Peer Review Should be Part of Your Writing Assignments

Canvas has some great features that can add to the course experience for both students and instructors. One of these is the peer review option for assignments. A peer review assignment requires that students provide feedback on each other’s assignment submissions. This results in higher quality work and a more involved learning process that ultimately leads to greater success in mastering course content while students learn from each other (Yalch et al., 2019). 

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The Role of Formative Assessment in Student-Centered Teaching 

As educators, we want students to be successful. So how do we define “success”? At the most basic level, it would be accomplishing a course’s stated learning objectives and getting a good grade — eventually doing that enough times to graduate and get a degree. But how many instructors and students feel engaged and motivated by that? And what kind of learning-awareness and real-world skills does that develop in our students?

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Learning with the LEC: Create Appointment Slots through Canvas Calendar

In this video tutorial, you will learn how to create and edit appointment slots through the Canvas calendar. This is a great way to set up individual or group appointments, allowing students to reserve the appointment slot they wish, with the information showing up in both their, and your, calendars. Students will be reminded of the appointment in their “To Do” column on their dashboard.

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