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 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...
by Laura Carroll | Mar 13, 2020 | Archived, Informative Articles, Instructional Design
In the event of a campus closure, how do you keep teaching? The Adams Center is offering a series of sessions to help faculty quickly move face-to-face classes online. We’ll discuss what kind of issues you need to consider for your course content and your students as...
by Joyce Haley | Nov 25, 2019 | Informative Articles, Instructional Design
David Kneip led a session in the Adams Center on Generation Z characteristics and the implications for teaching practices. The content for the session was drawn from a report released by The Chronicle of Higher Education that was researched and written by Jeffrey J....
by Amy Boone | Oct 23, 2019 | Informative Articles, Instructional Design
Kathleen Lee, Amanda Pittman, and Steve Hare led a panel discussion in the Adams Center on student note-taking. Kathleen is a chemistry professor and shared the use of partially filled notes that she uses in class with the aid of a document camera. She shared that...
by Berlin Fang | Sep 3, 2018 | Instructional Design
Instructional videos can help learners to spend extra time on learning tasks. You have probably seen many of your peers using something called “screencasting” to teach. Screencasting allows you to record what is going on on your screen which you would like to show to...
