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New Faculty Training Begins Monday, November 16
Each quarter, the School of Professional Studies hosts a four-week, asynchronous training for faculty and teaching assistants who will be facilitating SPS online courses for the first time. Run through Canvas, the training follows the basic format of an SPS … Read More
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GoReact: November 2015 Online Learning Webinar
November’s Online Learning Webinar features GoReact, a video platform that makes instructor feedback and assessment easy. It creates a dynamic online environment for class presentations, speeches, and other class activities. A recording of the webinar can be found here, … Read More
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How To Keep Students From Getting Lost In Your Course
If you have to reach an unfamiliar destination, a common practice is to use a road map. The road map shows you where to go and how to get there. The road map gives you information about what you can … Read More
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Group Work Solutions for Students
Whether it’s working on an assigned group project, studying together, or networking, SPS online students frequently need to collaborate in small groups. For students who may be in different cities, countries, or time zones, this can seem like a difficult … Read More
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Zaption: October 2015 Online Learning Webinar
October’s Online Learning Webinar session featured Zaption, an interactive video annotation platform. Zaption allows instructors to build video assets that engage and challenge students to interact with the content. No longer are video recordings just one-way messaging– now students can … Read More
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Contributing to the Canvas Community
Northwestern University Canvas users can use the Canvas Community site to: post ideas ask questions participate with other members in groups and find and comment on guides Contributions can range in complexity and significance, but each active member helps increase … Read More
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Fall Quarter 2015 and IDS Launch!
Fall Quarter 2015 started last week, with over a hundred sections of online courses running. Among those courses are the first offerings in our newest graduate program, the Masters of Science in Information Design & Strategy. Students are enrolled … Read More
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It’s not just a reading list: Adding context to resources in your course
In the School of Professional Studies, online courses are designed to facilitate three types of interaction: student/faculty, student/content, and student/student. One easy way to increase interaction between students and faculty, as well as students and content, is to add context … Read More
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Using Technology To Develop Students’ Critical Thinking Skills
What Is Critical Thinking? Critical thinking is a higher-order cognitive skill that is indispensable to students, readying them to respond to a variety of complex problems that are sure to arise in their personal and professional lives. The cognitive skills … Read More
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Looking Forward to Canvas Commons
If you’re like me and didn’t have a chance to attend the presentations about Canvas Commons at InstructureCon 2015, you will be happy to know there is an upcoming webinar on October 19, 2015. Canvas Commons: Tips That Can Save … Read More