In the Summer of 2024, Canvas introduced several significant improvements to its discussion and announcement features, offering enhanced usability, engagement, and productivity for both students and instructors. The enhancements … Read More
Distance Teaching and Learning Summit for Online Leadership & Administration Plus Roundtable, Presented by UPCEA, July 25-27, 2023, Madison, Wisconsin.
Our presentation, “You Belong Here: Building an Equitable and Inclusive Online Learning Community,” delivered to over 50 attendees, addressed the … Read More
The foundational element of effective asynchronous online learning remains the discussion board, a primary feature in all major learning management systems. Discussion boards are virtual classrooms where students and teachers gather … Read More
This year’s National Disability Employment Awareness Month (#NDEAM) theme is “Advancing Access and Equity.” We will celebrate on Thursday, October 26 at 12 PM Central with a webinar that will highlight the importance of ensuring all people have equal opportunity … Read More
In the late summer of 2017, Jacob Guerra-Martinez a Learning Designer and game-design researcher in Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies, pitched an audacious plan to a part-time faculty member in the School of Professional Studies. He … Read More
If you’ve taught face-to-face before, there’s a good chance you’ve developed slides to help give lectures in your classroom. You may even have structured your course around them: ten slide decks for ten weeks of class. There’s no shame … Read More
Learning designers Jeanne Kerl, Brian Runo, and David Noffs attended the Second Annual Teaching Forum on Promising Practices: Learning from Our Community held April 18, 2018 at the Norris University Center at Northwestern University’s main campus in Evanston.
The plenary … Read More
Several members of the Distance Learning Team at Northwestern’s School of Professional Studies attended Loyola’s Focus on Teaching and Learning (FOTL), a one day conference on January 10, 2018 at Schreiber Hall in Chicago.
The Keynote address, delivered by Dr. … Read More
This post was guest authored by David S. Noffs M.P.H., Ed.D.
Since 2001 Dr. David S. Noffs has worked at Columbia College Chicago as an adjunct faculty member in the Interactive Arts and Media department teaching sound design, web design … Read More
