Category: Student Technology

Accessibility Considerations for Online Courses

Dear Faculty, Are you currently teaching an online course or are you planning on teaching an online course in the near future? To increase accessibility for all learners in your online course, you may want to adapt some of your course materials.   3Play Media has developed a host of resources for online and video …

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Upgrading VoiceThread’s Integration with LearningStudio (eCollege)

LearningStudio’s (eCollege)  integration with the 3rd party tool, VoiceThread, is currently being updated to reflect new LTI protocols. These changes may affect the VoiceThread Course Item that currently appears in your course shell. If you are unable to access VoiceThread we recommend that you delete the existing Course Item and create a new item labeled …

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Emerging Tech Cafe- Digital Literacy and the First Brew

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Our Center for Faculty Excellence and Innovation recently held its grand opening.  Among the events was our first Emerging Tech Cafe.  This was a round table discussion with faculty regarding trends and emerging educational technology that they are either using, or interested in using. As guide posts for our discussion, we referenced the 2015 NMC Horizon …

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Extra! Extra! Read all about the CFEI Grand Opening

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Texas A&M University-Commerce’s Pride Online just released the following news.   CFEI to Celebrate Grand Opening of Gee Library Location http://sites.tamuc.edu/news/center-for-faculty-excellence-and-innovation-to-celebrate-grand-opening-of-gee-library-location/     For more information, go to http://www.tamuc.edu/facultyStaffServices/centerForFacultyExcellenceAndInnovation/facultyDevelopment/cfeiGrandOpening.aspx.   Please join us!

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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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