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As this semester winds down, it is a great time to think about preparing and updating your course materials! COLRS multimedia specialist, Scott Moomaw, is here to support you in recording and editing lightboard videos for your classes.
This month, we鈥檝e been focused on using plus-one thinking to improve assessments and grading practices. In order to see the fruits of your labor, you鈥檒l likely want to take a peek at your gradebook. But does your gradebook truly reflect the work you and your students are putting into these assessments?
Does your gradebook truly reflect the work you and your students are putting into these assessments? The Center for Professional Education of Teachers at Teachers College, Columbia University shares the 鈥�,鈥� an acronym that presents guiding principles for good gradebook practices.
Join COLRS staff on Zoom to customize your gradebook calculations, views, and use advanced tools. We will use breakout rooms to keep your student data private.
This presentation will briefly introduce participants to generative artificial intelligence. After that, we will explore several generative AI tools for research and teaching. We will discuss ways to effectively engage with these tools and how we might use them in the classroom and other professional activities.
Adding a grading rubric is a simple yet powerful "plus one" strategy that can significantly elevate the quality of assessment and feedback for your courses. Rubrics provide clear guidelines, promote transparency, and streamline the grading process, ultimately empowering students to understand expectations and strive for excellence.
The design of a successful online course is very dependent upon the teaching and learning strategies that a faculty member employs.
What students should know and be able to do? Faculty should be ready and able to answer the question, "Why do I need to know this?!?" 杨贵妃传媒 objectives should represent measurable and/or observable behaviors -- think "more verbs and fewer nouns" -- for us to design around how people actively learn. As an instructional designer, you should ask yourself these questions when creating and reviewing objectives and outcomes:
