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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
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Yellowdig: September 2015 Online Learning Webinar
September’s Online Learning Webinar session featured Yellowdig, a Facebook-like tool for the Canvas classroom. Shaunak Roy, founder and CEO of Yellowdig, joined the Distance Learning team on Wednesday to describe and discuss the merits of the tool. If you missed … Read More
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Featured Tech: ThingLink
Is your course visually boring? Are you tired of using only readings and videos to present content? Are you looking for more ways to keep students engaged and add interaction between students and course material? If you answered yes to … Read More
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Seven Resources for Designing with Accessibility
The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) presented a number of resources for accessible course design at a recent accessibility workshop. The best of those resources are highlighted here, with information about how each can support designers and faculty in improving course … Read More
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Flipgrid: August 2015 Online Learning Webinar
The first topic in our Online Learning Webinar series was Flipgrid, a video collaboration tool created and pioneered at the University of Minnesota. Flipgrid allows instructors to interact with students through short and informative self-created video clips. The goal … Read More
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NUIT Post Exchange: Designing Your Course with Mobile in Mind
This article was originally posted on the NUIT LMS blog on July 27, 2015. Students use Canvas on their phones. Some instructors do, but many do not. Instructors can make it easier for students to interact with the course via … Read More
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Saying Goodbye to Blackboard
On August 31, 2015, Northwestern University will no longer use or access Blackboard. In SPS, all online courses have been migrated to Canvas as of Summer Quarter 2015, but individual instructors may still have information in their archived Blackboard course … Read More