This Week in the LEC

Gear-up workshops are designed to give NSU faculty, students, alumni, and the general public an opportunity to engage with publishers, researchers, and librarians. This session will cover professor tools, provided by Wall Street Journal Digital, that integrate into their coursework. Additionally, there will be a short demo of Wall Street Journal Digital tools and how they work in promoting critical thinking and assessment strategies, especially using the seminar series. Location: Online Zoom Date and Time: Tuesday, March 22, 12:00pm – 1:00pm Eastern Register in advance for this meeting: https://nova.libcal.com/event/8927055 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

The Office of Student Disability Services and Access Plus will be hosting an Autism Awareness event the week of March 28th. We will be having an event on Tuesday, March 29th from 3:30pm-5:30pm specifically for faculty, staff, and graduate assistants in the Flight Deck. This event will include a presentation by Dr. Maribel Del Rio who will be discussing Access Plus, how their program collaborates with the Office of Student Disability Services, and strategies for faculty and staff when working with students on the spectrum. After the presentation, we will have a panel consisting of Access Plus and the Office of Student Disability Services to answer any questions. We will also be providing light refreshments. If you are interested in attending the event, please complete the following form: https://forms.office.com/r/Zrs8p8bGix The form should be completed before March 25th at 6:00pm. If you are unable to access the form, you can scan the following QR code: If you have any questions, please email our office at disabilityservices@nova.edu. Individuals who may need accommodations to attend the event are encouraged to contact the Office of Student Disability Services staff at disabilityservices@nova.edu, prior to attendance.  

When students engage in academically dishonest behaviors, they may be responding to subtle pressures in the learning environment that interfere with deep learning and nudge them toward cheating. Hence if we can gain a better understanding of the reasons for academically dishonest behavior, we can use that knowledge to improve our course design, teaching practices, and communication with students. One of the recommended strategies for reducing cheating through better learning has been the use of authentic assessments (i.e., assessments that break from the traditional model of quizzes and tests)—and a growing body of research has especially looked at the role that authentic assessments can play in medical education. In this workshop, participants will learn what the research tells us about the prevalence of cheating in higher education today, about the different forms that authentic assessments can take in medical education, and how those authentic assessments can help reduce cheating in their courses. The session will include a presentation and time for questions and discussion.

If you have writing assignments in your course, then you already know that plagiarism can be a problem. This workshop will present the tool, Turnitin, which helps identify instances of potential plagiarism. 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, as well as grammatical errors.  

Students begin accessing your course in Canvas even before classes officially begin. When logging in to your course, what do they see? What is the first impression they have of who you are? A course welcome video allows students to become familiar with you and your course before class starts. During this online workshop, Gregory Wright, an experienced multimedia producer, will show you around the video editing tool Adobe Premiere Rush and share some basic video editing principles.

If you are new to teaching at NSU or simply want to hone your online teaching skills then this series is for you! Foundations of Teaching Online is a series of interactive sessions focused on the development of competencies for effective online course design and delivery. In this series, we will introduce the basics of teaching and learning in online and blended learning environments. While these one-hour sessions focus on strategies for teaching online, most can be applied to any modality. Below is a listing of the sessions with links to their descriptions and registration information.