by David Christianson | Jul 15, 2015 | Informative Articles, Instructional Design
Have you thought about incorporating more active learning strategies in your classes, but are not convinced it is worth the effort? Read this short example from Faculty Focus about how a Geology class was transformed from a lecture-based class to one in which students...
by David Christianson | Jul 7, 2015 | Course Development
It’s your first time to teach a class, and all you have to go on (other than your content expertise) is an inherited syllabus and a course schedule. You know you can make improvements, and this article from Faculty Focus will give you the steps to make...
by Berlin Fang | Jun 10, 2015 | faculty spotlight, Instructional Design
This article was originally published with Faculty Focus on June 8, 2015. Ideas of this article come mostly from my interaction with our faculty, as well as participation in the “Make it stick” reading group led by Dr. Bob McKelvain. We encourage you to...
by David Christianson | May 8, 2015 | Instructional Design
Each Canvas course is created with the default beginning and end date for a semester. Sometimes, however, faculty will want to allow students to access and interact in the course before or after the official start and end times of the semester. In order to do this, an...
by Berlin Fang | Feb 20, 2015 | Instructional Design, Research
Guest post by Dr. Mark McCallon The ACU Library’s Curriculum Builder LMS Plugin enables you to search for EBSCOHOST articles, e-books, and other digital sources directly from the Canvas system and provide access to your students. Here is how it works: You can...
by Berlin Fang | Jan 26, 2015 | Instructional Design, Research
A number of our professors use Turnitin to check originality of student papers. Turnitin helps to compare student work with its repository of student papers, as well as online sources. What if students have cited every source properly, but the sources they cited from...
