June 26th, 2020
June 24, 2020聽 Abdullah Al-Bahrani, PhD, and Rebecca Moryl, PhD COVID-19 has upended normal social connections that develop between students and professors. We are missing the connections that develop through casual interactions in office hours, pre-class discussions, post-class questions, and any other in-person interaction. These social connections are important for student retention, academic development,…
June 18th, 2020
If you’re interested in learning about Microsoft Teams, join this online community! The goal is to share best practices, information, tutorials, tip, and events about Microsoft Teams. The Community is open to the whole College. Click here to visit or join this community!
June 17th, 2020
June 17, 2020聽 Lisa K. Forbes, PhD Today, faculty are being asked to abruptly expand their teaching practices in ways many of us would never have imagined. For many, teaching online is something they鈥檝e never done and for some, it鈥檚 something they never desired to do. I have some experience with digital pedagogy but for…
June 11th, 2020
Mike Yakubovsky聽 Published in ASCD Express A recent LinkedIn study identified the聽top 10 skills employers are currently looking for聽in their interns and new hires (Hess, 2019). I looked through it all, and nowhere was there a reference to test-taking ability. What was at the top of the list were soft skills like collaboration, time management,…
June 7th, 2020
Dave Cormier and Ashlyne O’Neil Free E-book This book is meant to be a short course to help you prepare to move your teaching online. Do a chapter a day. Or just pick the ones you like. Reframing the “problem” of teaching online The impact of information abundance on teaching and learning Complicated vs….
May 26th, 2020
From a Special Issue of Educational Leadership聽titled A New Reality:聽 Getting Remote Learning Right Catlin R. Tucker The keys are prioritizing community and designing student-centered lessons. Teachers who have taught exclusively offline in a traditional school setting may find the transition to teaching online daunting and foreign. As educators navigate this new…
May 26th, 2020
A new resource is available to faculty.聽It is an asynchronous, self-paced online course called 鈥淭eaching with Moodle鈥�, which has been developed by Madeleine Bazerghi (Pedagogical Counsellor, OAD).聽 Moodle聽allows teachers to: 鈥� upload files such as narrated PowerPoints, videos, jpegs, word, excel, pdfs; 鈥� use the Chat and Forum features in order to communicate with students,…
May 13th, 2020
From The Chronicle of Higher Education Whether you鈥檝e taught online a lot or a little, chances are you didn鈥檛 enjoy it as much as teaching in person. Maybe you didn鈥檛 experience that fizz after a particularly invigorating face-to-face class. Indeed, according to a 2017聽Educause survey, only 9 percent of academics prefer to teach 鈥渋n a…
May 13th, 2020
From The Chronicle of Higher Education By Kevin Gannon When I first began teaching online courses, I did so with聽a fair amount of uncertainty聽and trepidation. Could I replicate in a digital environment what I believed was essential for an in-person course? What I learned, however, was that I didn鈥檛 need to replicate my face-to-face…
April 29th, 2020
From Profweb, April 27, 2020 A number of technologies have facilitated the transition to alternative methods of teaching. In recent years, these tools have become more user-friendly and accessible to teachers, who are using them to support a blended or fully on-line approach within their teaching practice. Yann Brouillette聽and聽Carmen Leung聽are 2 such teachers from 七星彩开奖…
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