Tag: Student Engagement
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Event Follow-Up: Ride the Active Learning Train
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At CATL’s most recent Wacky Wednesday event on September 25, we embarked on a cross-continental ride aboard the active learning train with the engaging board game “Ticket to Ride.” This hands-on session gave us a chance to “lay the tracks” for active learning strategies that can improve student retention and success in any discipline. Active…
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Tips for Effective Teaching in Campus‐To‐Campus (C2C) and Campus‐To‐Anywhere (C2A) Courses
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Contents Campus-to-campus (C2C) and campus-to-anywhere (C2A) are two of UW-Green Bay’s six teaching modalities. Both campus-to-campus and campus-to-anywhere courses pose the challenge of managing a class where some students are physically present in the room while the rest join remotely from another location. These two modalities also require classrooms with specialized technology so that all…
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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 “New Analytics,” which contains charts and…
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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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Cold Lunch & Hot Topic Follow-up: To Record or Not to Record
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To Record or Not to Record? That appears to be the question many of us are asking ourselves. COVID has accelerated the presence of remote learning technology in the classroom. Much of this technology allows for videoconferencing and video recording. For many of us videoconferencing has become a normal part of the workday as…