Category: Teaching and Learning
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Rubrics
Creating Effective Rubrics for Assessing Student Learning in Graduate Online Courses Assessment in online graduate courses can be challenging—especially when it comes to ensuring clarity, consistency, and fairness in grading. One powerful tool for meeting these challenges is the rubric. Rubrics not only clarify expectations but also provide a structured…
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Taxonomies of Learning
Taxonomies of Learning: Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor Domains In course design, understanding the different ways students learn and engage with material is crucial. Learning doesn’t happen in just one way; it encompasses multiple domains that tap into the mind, heart, and body. These domains are organized in learning taxonomies—frameworks that…
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Embracing AI: Transforming Pedagogy for the Digital Age
The video below was created using several AI tools including ChatGPT, Descript and Dall-E. ChatGPT wrote the narration and several of the slides (with some input from me). Descript created an AI version of my voice. I used Dall-E to create some of the images. “This video will explore the…
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Cooperative Learning: An Introduction
This short video provides an introduction to cooperative learning. It’s important to note that cooperative learning is not equivalent to working in groups. While working in groups can be valuable, cooperative learning is a well-defined and evidence-based instructional methodology rather than a discussion technique. Access on YouTube Further Reading The…
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Student Engagement
What do we mean by student engagement? What are our assumptions? Strategies? How can we plan more mindfully and collaboratively to create opportunities for greater engagement? This video reviews some essential concepts of student engagement. Access the video on YouTube
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Assessing Student Learning
This short video reviews the three types of assessment (diagnostic, formative and summative) and considers some implications of assessment. Assessing Student Learning: Understanding Diagnostic, Formative, and Summative Assessments Assessing student learning is an essential part of teaching, allowing educators to understand what students know, what they’re struggling with, and how…
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Providing Video Feedback on Student Work
This video discusses some reasons why you might want to consider providing students with video feedback.
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Thinking about Asynchronous Learning Components
How can we visualize asynchronous course components without ever having learned or taught in this modality? How can we move away from a lecture video approach when our foundational experiences of online learning were during the pandemic, when Emergency Remote Teaching, Zooms and a Google Folder, was the norm. It…
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Three Discussion Strategies
Effective classroom discussions require intentional structuring to foster engagement and shared understanding. Discussions should be designed with clear objectives, whether synchronous or asynchronous, ensuring they serve a meaningful purpose beyond mere participation. A well-structured discussion follows three key phases: Respond, Discuss, and Reflect. In the Respond phase, students engage with…
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Fishbowl
Fishbowl is a discussion strategy that focuses on both student-centeredness and listening skills. In a face-to-face classroom, you would arrange the students into a small group in the center of an outer ring. Students in the center would have a discussion and the students in the outer ring would observe.…
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