Tag: Student Experience
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Up and Running with Remote Group Work
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How can we design collaborative activities that are a quality learning experience for students? This post provides some considerations for designing group work for student success, how to assess group work, and a few tools to consider for facilitating such collaborative projects.
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Implementing Negotiable Grading Schemes
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Article by Amy J. Kabrhel, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry & 2022-23 Instructional Development Consultant For years I have seen students enter my courses on the first day of classes eager to engage with the course material who then slowly stop doing the homework but still perform well on the exams. I wondered if this…
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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…
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What’s in a Name? Tips for Learning & Using Students’ Names in Class
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As we head back into the classroom, many of you may be thinking of the regular challenge of learning and correctly pronouncing students’ names. There’s no easy solution, but evidence suggests it yields positive outcomes in the learning space. CATL has a new blog entry for you filled with specific strategies for working on names…