Category: Online Courses

MOOCs on the Mend?

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Once viewed as a beacon of hope for higher education to redefine itself in the face of a range of pressures- from shrinking state budgets, to stiff competition from for-profit institutions- Massive Online Open Courses seemed to have lost much of their luster in the past two years.  Colloquially known as MOOCs (because we love …

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Pearson LearningStudio Instructor and Student Discussion/Threads Enhancements

We are excited to announce the release of a new Pearson LearningStudio Instructor & Student Discussion/Threads interface which includes options to embed media, search within a discussion, and grade discussion posts from the discussion board. In response to feedback directly from faculty and students, threaded discussions have been overhauled to make for easier organization, searching, …

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LearningStudio's Rubric Course Tool

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The new, integrated Rubric course tool makes it easy to grade student work using a rubric right in the Learning Studio gradebook. A streamlined rubric creation tool allows you to use the same rubric for multiple assignments, or to create unique rubrics to use for grading different types of student work. Rubrics will copy over …

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Academic Program Assessment: Rubrics

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Dr. Marila Palmer and Institutional Effectiveness requested two 1-hour sessions of “Academic Program Assessment: Rubrics” for the Institutional Effectiveness Leadership Team, college and department representatives, and all faculty to attend. The intent was to help faculty align their programmatic student learning outcomes (SLOs) to their academic program assessment, specifically their programs’ rubrics. Drs. Felicity Grandjean …

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iPad App for LearningStudio (eCollege)

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The Center for Faculty Excellence & Innovation is happy to announce that Pearson has released an update to their Pearson LearningStudio Courses app and that it is ready for download and use on the campus of A&M-Commerce.  Once you download the app, search for Texas A&M University-Commerce.  You will then be asked to login using …

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