The Center for Faculty Excellence and Innovation website offers many resources for faculty. New to the CFEI website is information on Learning Analytics available to faculty within Pearson Learning Studio (eCollege). Analytics allow faculty to monitor student activity within PLS and review exam statistics. Both provide excellent data for measuring student success while the class is …
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Jul 10
Free Rice! What is it?
Do you personally like quizzes? Do you give pop quizzes? Do you construct quizzes as informal, low-stakes assessments? If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, you may be interested in “Free Rice” as a tool in your classroom. The following article, “5 Ways to Enhance Student Learning Using Free Rice“, gives a …
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Jun 01
Blogging: A Worthwhile Learning Activity
Why Teachers and Students Should Blog This recent article, Why Teachers and Students Should Blog, offers 4 reasons and 5 tips for using blogs in the classroom for increasing student engagement and learning. Link: http://www.edudemic.com/how-and-why-teachers-should-blog/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Education%20Dive%3A%20K12&utm_campaign=Issue%3A%202015-06-01%20K12%20Education%20Dive%20Newsletter
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Apr 28
Increase Student Performance & Engagement in Online Classes
A recent article highlights valuable online time-management tools (focusing on commitment, reminder, and/or focus) which helps to increase student performance and course completion and reduce distractions and barriers to success. Tools That Limit Distraction May Raise Student Performance in Online Classes http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/tools-that-limit-distraction-may-raise-student-performance-in-online-classes/56413?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Some touted online time-management software include: Concentrate FocusBooster RescueTime Self-Control (Mac) …
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Apr 14
Blended Learning: The Secret is in the Blend
As our University moves forward with offering blended courses beginning in Spring 2016, a timely article was published on blended learning. A discussion of the necessary conditions and a list of resources was included. https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-beta/secret-blend
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