Learning and Educational Center
Kaltura Academic Media & Pedagogy (KAMP) is a free master class series focused on helping higher education faculty and instructional designers better use video! This complimentary series for Kaltura customers will not only teach you tips and tricks for getting the most out of your Kaltura products but will also give you some of the latest pedagogical theories for how to use video as part of your courses for more effective learning.
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Once we’ve determined where we are going on our road trip, how do we know when we’ve arrived? In this session, we will explore what is acceptable evidence that our students have achieved the course objectives. We will discuss how to use a variety of formative and summative assessments, how to make assessments authentic, and how we can use rubrics to guide our feedback and grading.
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The Learning and Educational Center (LEC) is working with faculty and staff across the university to plan a virtual teaching and learning conference for Fall 2022. We would like to know what topics are of interest to you. Please take a few minutes to complete this short survey. Your anonymous responses will assist us with our planning process. Thank you!
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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.
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When we go on a road trip, one of the first decisions we need to make is where we want to go. Similarly, when designing a course, we need to be clear on our course goals and objectives. In this session, we will review our course goals and objectives to ensure they have enduring value and align with broader program goals. We will also discuss strategies for presenting the course objectives in Canvas so that students can see how they align with course content. Finally, we will introduce the Canvas Course Roadmap, a visual tool for organizing all of your course components, which we will use throughout the Summer Road Trip series.
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This workshop is designed to show you different classroom technologies that can assist you in enhancing your online, blended, or face-to-face classroom experience. This session will include tips on providing assignment feedback using dictation, changing the view of your gradebook, bulk editing assignment due dates, and discovering the analytics within your course.
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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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Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to change all the text in your presentation to a different font with one click? Or apply a consistent color scheme to unite your slides? You can with PowerPoint themes and master slides! This presentation will demonstrate how to use these tools to improve PowerPoint design.
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As we close out the academic year (AY) 2021-2022, we would like to thank NSU’s faculty and staff who took the time and effort to prepare and deliver relevant and worthwhile presentations as part of LEC’s Guest Presentation Series. Faculty and staff from eight of our colleges presented on a range of important topics related to teaching and learning.
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OIIT has provided a list of technology best practices for using your Work computer, Classroom technology, Mobile devices, and general Safe Computing tips. Need to contact OIIT? OIIT requests are now available for submission through the NSU OIIT ServiceNow Portal!
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