The Cowbell
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Steps Towards Assuring Academic Integrity
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Although there is not a 100% successful strategy that one can adopt to eliminate cheating for both online and in-person learning environments, we still strive to limit academic dishonesty to the best of our abilities. In this blog post, instructional designer Nathan Kraftcheck provides some practices that you may find useful in both reducing the…
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Your Course Communication Strategy
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Communicating is paramount in any course—this is especially true at a distance where even incidental contact is absent. Good communication correlates strongly with positive student feedback. The materials and content in your course could be entirely mute if students don’t know fully how you expect they interact with them.
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The SAMR Model
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The SAMR framework stands for Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition. It was developed by Ruben Puentedura to categorize classroom technologies and can be used to decide which technologies might be right for you in a given situation. Consider these “degrees” (rather than “levels”). Each has their place. Let’s look at the acronym using a typical…
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Pedagogies of Care: Rethinking Student and Professor Workload
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Article by Jessica Van Slooten. The phrase “pedagogy of care” started percolating in my brain late last summer as I crafted a full load of asynchronous online courses and wondered how to best care for the students in my classes—and myself. What would a pedagogy of care look like, and how best to put this…
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Fearlessly Facing Challenges: Academic Research and the Pandemic’s Effects
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Many faculty are struggling to conduct and complete research during the pandemic. In this blog post, Terri Fredenberg-Holzman provides examples of how faculty have re-envisioned their collaborative networks and processes, and how the University and sponsored research program offices have adapted to the challenges of our current work environment.