Recent Entries
You’ll find the latest from the Adams Center staff here at the Adams Blog. The content varies, but the subject is always the same: teaching and learning.
Canvas Roll Call Attendance
One of the many tools Canvas offers is a tool to record attendance in a face-to-face class. Roll Call Attendance, labeled “Attendance” in the side menu, is visible to instructors but not to students. A simple click can record an ongoing grade in the Gradebook for each...
ACU Chooses Canvas
It’s official - Canvas is now the enterprise learning management system for Abilene Christian University. Canvas is built in such a way that it can effectively be used for both fully-online and face-to-face courses. Tools such as SpeedGrader make grading and grading...
Faculty Reflection on the Flipped Classroom
Written by Berlin Fang The Flipped Classroom model has been around for a while. As a matter of fact, teachers may have been doing it before the term was even coined. However, flipped experiences might flop without teachers being deliberate in the planning and...
Mobile Learning Evolves from Initiative to Ecosystem
Written by Berlin Fang The Adams Center’s Berlin Fang published the following article with WISE Ed Review, an online platform hosted by World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) to share thoughts in educational innovation. “On November 6, 2014, I organized a...
Learning Styles Out of Fashion
Written by David Christianson It seemed to make sense - we all have different learning styles. You could take a learning styles inventory, find out your preferred learning style, and supposedly, that was the best way for you to learn. You might be a visual learner,...
In Case You Missed It – My Best Lecture with Royce Money
If you missed Royce Money's "My Best Lecture" session on September 3rd, don’t worry! You can watch the full podcast of the session here.
Minimize Problems for Quizzes in OpenClass
Written by the Instructional Design Team Many faculty find online assessment features useful for administering daily quizzes. The grades are automatically reported and recorded in the gradebook, students are held accountable for class preparation, and such retrieval...
In Case You Missed It – Turnitin with Cliff Barbarick – Faculty Fusion 2014
If you missed the Faculty Fusion Turnitin session with Cliff Barbarick on August 19th, don’t worry! You can watch the full podcast of the session here.
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