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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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Enduring Understandings
Enduring Understandings: Building Courses with Lasting Impact In the world of education, designing a course that resonates with students long after they complete it is a top goal. But how do we move beyond immediate learning outcomes to something more lasting? Enter enduring understandings, a core concept in curriculum design…
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Essential Questions
Essential Questions in Course Design: Creating Deeper Learning Through Inquiry When designing a course, it’s easy to get caught up in content, assignments, and assessments. But to truly engage students, we need to go beyond what we want them to learn and focus on why it matters. This is where…
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Lecture-Based Course Design
In this video, the process of utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to augment the instructional capacity of lecture videos is methodically explored. The initial phase involves uploading a lecture video into a video-to-text AI tool, which efficiently produces a transcript. This transcript forms the basis for further applications of AI,…
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AI and Course Design
In this video, I explore the process of developing an online unit on Trauma-Informed Pedagogy using artificial intelligence (AI). From writing learning objectives to formulating quizzes and VoiceThreads, this presentation demonstrates how AI can facilitate the creation of educational materials. I walk you through the utilization of AI to assemble…
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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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