2015 Scholarship Symposium!

Scholarship Symposium Flyer

To provide faculty with support for teaching, scholarship, and engagement in service, the Center for Faculty Excellence and Innovation (CFEI) will be hosting a Scholarship Symposium this Spring 2015 semester.   On February 25, 2015, from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. at the RSC Traditions, a Panel Discussion on the Publication Process will include Dr. Augustine …

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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

Additional rubric information

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

Rubric example

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)

Pearson Learning Studio Courses app icon

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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