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Active Learning Activities: Talking Chips & Real Time Case Study Discussion

by Trey Shirley | Feb 4, 2014 | Instructional Design

<![CDATA[Active learning isn’t about fun. It’s about engagement. It’s about doing something with information beyond intake and producing output. It’s about producing output right now, in the moment, and not waiting for a paper due in two weeks or a test on...

Sending Email via Your Course Management System

by Shaylee Southerland | Feb 3, 2014 | Instructional Design

If you use your email to communicate with students in a class, you will need to create folders or tags to track such emails. You probably will also have to create email groups for various classes. Students or you may also delete such email messages by accident, or...

Active Learning Activities: Give Me Three Steps and Think-Draw-Pair

by Shaylee Southerland | Jan 28, 2014 | Instructional Design

Written by David Christianson Active learning isn’t about fun. It’s about engagement. It’s about doing something with information beyond intake and producing output. It’s about producing output right now, in the moment, and not waiting for a paper due in two weeks or...

Using Respondus to Convert Tests for Use in OpenClass

by Shaylee Southerland | Jan 28, 2014 | Instructional Design

If you have tests from a textbook publisher it is very likely that they allow you to download these tests into a compressed format that can be directly imported into your course shell with a major Learning Management System. At this point, OpenClass does not handle...

Getting Publisher Content into CourseSites

by Shaylee Southerland | Jan 23, 2014 | Instructional Design

Textbook publishers are moving vigorously into developing resources for faculty members. Some offer resources such as PowerPoint files, animations, videos and tests that you can use in the course. Coursesites offers a number of ways for you to utilize such content: 1....

APPs For The Beginning of the Semester

by Shaylee Southerland | Jan 21, 2014 | Instructional Design

Whiteboard/Interactive Looking to use your iPad in new, fun ways with your students? Below are a couple free apps that you may find useful. Educreations Interactive Whiteboard captures your voice and handwriting to produce video lessons that you can share online....

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