Learning and Educational Center
NSU’s Learning and Educational Center is excited to announce the following series of faculty professional development sessions, “Teaching and Learning Classic Rewind.” Just like your favorite music classics, we’re bringing back a series of conference presentations that have timeless wisdom, relevance, and inspiration! Register today!
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As a valued member of our teaching community at NSU, your input is essential in helping us develop resources and programs that are most relevant to you and that will enhance the learning experience for our students. Please take a few moments to complete our needs analysis survey.
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Traditional classrooms often confine students to desks, promoting sedentary behaviors that can harm health and hinder focus. However, integrating movement into learning offers numerous advantages beyond academic achievement, spanning neurological, physiological, and mental health benefits. This session explores dynamic learning experiences at the intersection of movement and collaborative learning, demonstrating practical and fun strategies for both educators and learners.
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OIIT wanted to make you aware of changes that have recently impacted accessing the Faculty Self-Service pages for Grading, Student Information among other links through an old look and feel. As of April 24th that old interface has been disabled. Since 2019 Faculty Self-Service was upgraded to a new look and feel, with the old version left in place for those who preferred it. However, the vendor is not supporting the old version causing it to not be available. Training materials are available here to help with this transition.
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In this episode of the Learning with the LEC series, you will be guided on how to access the Annoto Dashboard, as well as how to set your Annoto preferences and see video analytics.
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The Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (LWW) Health Library is a comprehensive online platform that provides core content (essential texts, procedure videos, images, real-life case studies, and quiz banks) to support health science education. The platform recently implemented new updates to improve your end-user experience, come learn more about the changes in an online webinar.
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The LEC is excited to provide a self-enroll, asynchronous course introducing the basics of teaching and learning in online and blended learning environments. This course will explore topics such as learning theories, tools and technologies, accessibility, student success, and more! We welcome you to learn more about this course and how to enroll.
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The journey to engaged, excellent teaching requires support and preparation for those doing the teaching! In this session, we describe a college Faculty Onboarding Program we developed in 2023 to introduce our new faculty to NSU and provide them with the resources and information needed to succeed in their new role—driven by the belief that effective onboarding will lead to higher job satisfaction, better job performance, greater organizational commitment, and reduction in stress. Informed by feedback from recently hired faculty, we identified support strategies to help new faculty thrive by proactively removing barriers and minimizing guesswork, rather than fixing issues in a reactive fashion.
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Though many students seek graduate degrees to increase their level of employability and career opportunities within the workforce, the earned degree alone is not always sufficient for them to obtain employment or promotions post-graduation.
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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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