by Amy Boone | Apr 14, 2021 | Course Development
The Adams Center hosted a panel about various choices professors make regarding assessment. As part of our series on Transparent Assessment, this session briefly covered some technology tools like Turnitin, Lockdown Browser, and Respondus as well as choices...
by Cliff Barbarick | Mar 4, 2021 | Adams Blog, Course Development, Instructional Design
In the Adams Center, we have hosted multiple sessions extolling the virtues of “transparent assignments”; that is, assignments that make explicitly clear the purpose of an assignment along with the skills and tasks needed to successfully complete that...
by Berlin Fang | Jul 6, 2020 | Informative Articles
Some faculty may use video conferencing to conduct part of the class. Here are a few pedagogical considerations we would make when you plan such kind of teaching: Course outcomes and objectives: Please make sure that your classes using video conferencing technologies...
by Amy Boone | Apr 17, 2020 | Informative Articles
As plans are made for a summer of online teaching for ACU, our thoughts may be scattered between figuring out how to teach our content in this format while connecting with students and finding ways to keep them motivated. Student engagement can be challenging...
by Laura Carroll | Apr 9, 2020 | Informative Articles
For the entire month of April, there is a campaign to raise funds for the Katie Kirby fund. Please share with your networks or consider contributing personally to directly impact ACU students. This fund provides support for immediate living needs such as rent,...
by Amy Boone | Apr 8, 2020 | Informative Articles, Instructional Design
Thanks to Liz Brown and the UAP team for this timely and important post. UAP works with students of all kinds who may be experiencing academic vulnerabilities. The COVID-19 crisis and move to online education has created unique issues for students who...