Learning and Educational Center
The LEC is proud to present the recording from the presentation of the LEC Summer Series. In this video, Alfreda Francis and Jose Rivera discuss the components of well-written learning objectives and their connection, or alignment, to activities and assessments in your course.
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Have you ever had to have the alignment checked on your car because it kept veering to one side? Maybe you have had a spinal alignment done to relieve back pain. Just like anything else that can lose effectiveness once the alignment is off track, your course can be misaligned and potentially throw your students off track. A misaligned course contains gaps in learning objectives, activities, assignments, and/or assessments. In this one-hour workshop, we will discuss the components of well-written learning objectives and their connection, or alignment, to activities and assessments in your course.
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News stories bring real-world relevance to the classroom and incorporating global news coverage in lessons can enhance students’ understanding of course content by connecting learning objectives to real-world issues and events. NewsBank online resources deliver vetted, reliable content with multiple perspectives on local, national, and global issues supporting all curricular areas.
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Connect with your Class a little differently through the newly available Immersive View. With the Zoom Software update that arrived on April 26th (version 5.6.4), a new way of looking at your class became available. Immersive View is a fun new way to get out of Gallery Mode and feel a little closer together in the same space while on Zoom. Although it has some limitations, it does create a more welcome feeling to hosting discussions in a variety of scenes like a classroom, boardroom, or lecture hall.
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Shark Notes is a brief summary of an article that our staff has found valuable, and here are the highlights from the latest article: Encouraging Self-Advocacy: How to Build Environments for Awareness and Self-Disclosure for Learners with Disabilities. As a professor, it can be challenging to learn about the capabilities as well as the needs of students with disabilities. This article discusses what professors can do to build an inclusive and effective learning environment that encourages self-advocacy.
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The LEC is proud to present the recording from the presentation of the Guest Lecture Series. In this video, Dr. Orellana shares how to use SharkMedia or an existing account in YouTube or Vimeo, to embed closed captions to a video previously recorded to the cloud with Zoom.
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In collaboration with the Office of Innovation and Information Technology, we are excited to announce that Respondus will include Instructor Live Proctoring capabilities. We have had the ability to use Respondus Lockdown Browser to deter cheating, and Respondus Monitor to proctor exams, but have you wished you could proctor your exams in real-time, in a remote setting? Wait no more!
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On May 15th, Canvas released the following update where instructors can provide a file as an assignment and allow students to annotate the file directly in Canvas. Currently, students have to either print the file and take a photo to submit or use a third-party tool to complete the submission.
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This article provides faculty with two principles to foster engagement with their online students to (1) build community to foster engagement online, and (2) create options for students to engage online and is the second part to “How to structure your online class for inclusion.”
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Facilitator: Dr. Aileen Miyuki Farrar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Literature, Halmos College of Arts & Sciences. Digital curriculum, or curriculum that emphasizes the use of technology to support or enhance learning environments and means of assessment, impacts the identities of those within education communities. In this session, we will explore the history and culture of hypertexts as a means of cultivating digital communities; the significance of digital communities to student learning; and the ways hypertextual class projects may exercise students’ comprehension and appreciation of cybercultural concepts regarding globalization, heterogeneity, and interconnectedness.
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