Category: Teaching & Learning Resources
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Revising—and Reframing—Your Teaching Philosophy
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Writing your teaching philosophy is not easy, but it is still an important practice both for potential career advancement and for self-reflection as educators. In this post, Tara DaPra, Assistant Teaching Professor and one of CATL’s 2022-23 Instructional Development Consultants, reflects on some ways to make writing a teaching philosophy a creative (and even fun)…
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Making Impactful Use of Canvas Analytics in Your Course
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Like many websites, Canvas collects data from users as they navigate their courses. Thankfully, unlike many websites, Canvas collects this data not for the purpose of selling it to advertisers but for the purpose of presenting it to instructors. Canvas presents collected student activity data in a course page titled “Course Analytics,” which contains charts and…
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PlayPosit: Time-Saving Tips
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What is PlayPosit? And what can PlayPosit do for you? What is PlayPosit? PlayPosit is a video resource tool integrated with Canvas that allows instructors to create interactive videos. Using PlayPosit terminology, these videos are referred to as bulbs. Instructors can embed questions or other engagement check-points, called interactions, into recorded lecture videos, YouTube videos,…
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Evidence-Based Frameworks and Strategies for Keeping Students Engaged
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Engaging students is a common concern among instructors. While some approaches for engaging students are contingent on modality and content area, there are also methods that can apply to courses of all types. CATL has compiled some of these key research-backed frameworks and strategies in this blog post on student engagement.
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Follow-Up: PlayPosit “Replicate and Repeat” Training
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On Nov. 15, 2022, PlayPosit held a training that focused on how to replicate and repeat content in PlayPosit. The recording from that training is included in this post as a follow-up resource.