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Making the Grades – It’s that time again End of semester grading is upon us, and many instructors come to Educational Technology Services (ETS) asking for a more efficient way of completing them and transferring them to Banner. We demonstrate the ease and efficiency of Blackboard’s Full Grade Center and we are really happy to … Read more
Educational Developers Caucus 2018 Conference All of us at the Division of Learning and Teaching Support and Innovation (LTSI) look forward to hosting the Educational Developers Caucus Conference from Wednesday, February 14 to Friday, February 16, 2018. Join us at the conference
A Spark of Teaching Inspiration The upcoming Ignite Innovation Series will be a great opportunity to get fresh ideas to adopt into our teaching as well as share our ideas with peers. As with any occupation, we can get caught up in a routine, but Ignite helps expand our routine by adding new strategies to our … Read more
Classes are filling up and wait-list are growing, we can expect a full house in almost every class. No, this is not the conundrum – this is due to exceptional teaching skills found at UFV*. The conundrum is how we can personalize the learning experience for each of our students? One instructor posts personal responses … Read more
Room: TBA Facilitator: Michelle Johnson and Ken Harmel Workshop dates: held on 4 consecutive Fridays – Feb. 16, 23, Mar. 2 & 9 (9:00am – 3:00pm) The Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) is offered to a group of five or six colleagues and is designed to enhance the teaching effectiveness of both new and experienced educators. During the … Read more
A second year UFV student works on his final 2000-word assignment. He’s worked hard on it and feels he has a solid first draft. He opens up Turnitin and submit it only to get a 20% similarity in his report. He’s a little surprised. He comes to you asking what he should do about it. … Read more
I think we all have a good idea of what the flipped classroom looks like. The flipping involves a lot of collaboration and, hopefully, engagement, on the students’ part. There are many tools available to do this both online and in-class. Many have tried different tools, but discussion forums tends to be by far the … Read more
While teaching in Japan, I told stories about perseverance using Wayne Gretzky, endurance using Terry Fox, and politeness using the pervasive Canadian “sorry”. The stories fell flat because my Japanese audience couldn’t connect. What did they know about these topics? Nothing. My point never hit its target so I started using Japanese examples. At the … Read more
We know the benefits of active learning with some instructors trying classroom flipping to engage students. However, some have said that students just don’t prepare in advance and their class outline goes out the window. What successes have you had with classroom flipping and what fallbacks could you recommend if some students don’t prepare?
Digital analytics are useful in measuring student performance (2017). Blackboard, for example, offers over 30 reports giving you granular student data to an overview of class progress. Choosing the best report to get the information you need is a question ETS often receives. What educational analytic do you use, or would like to see, that … Read more