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Going Gameful Home Go Gameful Ready to implement a gameful learning approach into your course? Use the resources below to help guide you through! Getting Started Example Syllabi Planning Resources …

Canva for Education is the world’s largest free, online design platform that enables teachers and students to easily create beautiful and engaging designs. Bring your ideas to life with over 60,000 ready-to-use educational templates including: worksheets, lesson plans, presentations, posters, newsletters, class schedules, book reports, infographics and more. In this session, Jason Wilmot, Head of Canva for Education, will share how to get Canva set-up through your Canvas LMS. Then, George Lee, Master Educator, will share examples of how teachers and students are using Canva to transform learning in both face-to-face and virtual environments. For more Videos & Insights, visit the Instructure Study Hall: https://www.instructure.com/canvas/resources Get Canvas for Dummies: Everything You Need to Know! https://www.instructure.com/canvas/resources/articles/canvas-lms-for-dummies Interested in Canvas LMS? Get more info here: https://www.instructure.com/canvas/higher-education/platform/products/canvas-lms Check out the Canvas Community for more tips! https://community.canvaslms.com/ Listen to the Canvascasters wherever you get your podcasts! https://anchor.fm/canvascasters Follow us on Social Media! Twitter: https://twitter.com/CanvasLMS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CanvasLMS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/canvaslms/ #Canvas #EdTEch

Remote teaching created a unique opportunity to study the experiences of faculty participating in a course design institute. Hundreds enrolled in our online institute, where technologies (e.g., Zoom, Canvas, Google Docs) facilitated interactions among participants and preserved their ideas and perspectives throughout the program. Using a grounded theory analysis approach attentive to the participants’ words, the authors uncovered participants’ experiences and their perspectives on the structures that shaped those experiences. The data ultimately revealed five themes (pedagogical knowledge, student perspective, community and connection, technology, and emotion) that relate to changes in participant attitudes, perceptions, and/or pedagogical approaches. Drawing on these themes, we identify implications for future professional development programming design that align with other results from the literature, including the importance of modeling the student experience, deliberately addressing community and connection, building in time for synthesis and commitment, and prompting faculty to identify and reflect on their emotions. Though some of the identified themes may have been more visible because data were captured in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, these themes are aligned with prior research and existing learning theories and will apply to the design of course design institutes beyond the context of crisis situations.

Robert Talbert is a math professor, so numbers are his thing. And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him.That became clear ...

h/t Josh Eyler Grading refers to the symbols assigned to individual pieces of student work or to composite measures of student performance on report cards. This review of over 100 years of research on grading considers five types of studies: (a) early studies of the reliability of grades, (b) quantitative studies of the composition of K-12 report card grades, (c) survey and interview studies of teachers’ perceptions of grades, (d) studies of standards-based grading, and (e) grading in higher education. Early 20th century studies generally condemned teachers’ grades as unreliable. More recent studies of the relationships of grades to tested achievement and survey studies of teachers’ grading practices and beliefs suggest that grades assess a multidimensional construct containing both cognitive and non-cognitive factors reflecting what teachers value in student work. Implications for future research and for grading practices are discussed.

If you insist on using tools to detect AI-generated text in student work at least do so in an open and transparent way.

Sitting with this. Curious what others are thinking and feeling. #HigherEd #FacDev #Belonging https://t.co/TnaxjbngCA— Karen Costa (she/her) (@karenraycosta) May 5, 2023

h/t Ludmila - the article she likes the most regarding the science of learning

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world h/t Pooja Agarwal

“Students said those emails mattered. The reason, though, is pretty demoralizing: They were pleasantly surprised to hear from professors, because they usually don’t.”⁦@becksup⁩ Teaching: Could a few emails from you boost student success? https://t.co/GdqSOHa5jR— Kelly Hogan (@DrMrsKellyHogan) April 20, 2023

If a student is actively trying to be engaged, does that count as being engaged? Why / why not?— Tim Fawns (@timbocop) April 17, 2023

For anyone looking to finally solve that age old question of whether online or face-to-face learning is better, I've made this amazing, time-saving infographic. pic.twitter.com/zicJcimLTr— Tim Fawns (@timbocop) April 13, 2023

Although Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is commonly heard of in higher education, most are implementing it at the level of individual interactions or

“Meritocracy musings: Successful people, including scholars, want to believe their status is earned. @DLAbaree is honest enough to tell a different story about his own career trajectory: https://t.co/8EO9diBGSh. This passage on teaching/assessing jumped out at me:”

h/t Josh Eyler This professor, whose father died when she was an undergrad, supports her students as she wishes she had been

We're one week away from Turnitin's AI text detection tool going live on April 4th. It is being rolled out to all customers with no ability to opt out or even test the functionality first. Instructors will be exposed to this unproven functionality before we can even react.— Ian Linkletter (@Linkletter) March 27, 2023

The latest Student Voice survey reveals perceived barriers to academic success and the top actions students think professors should take. Mixing up teaching styles and being more flexible rank high.

“In #SchoolofChocolate, Amaury Guichon, the chocolate genius, is a great example of a good teacher. Unlike other cooking shows, he doesn't shame, he encourages, he helps, he wants to see students succeed. Every participant in the show gets better. (rec for @tihighered 😉)”

Resources from the University of Hartford Session at the Teaching and Learning Collaborative

“@becksup A few of mine: Sanford's Challenge & Support, Grow's SSDL, @LauraIRendon's Validation, LXD, COI, #HumanizingOL #HigherEd #FacDev #AcademicTwitter”

Question Jam is an ed-tech tool. It’s a free digital game designed to boost student learning through curiosity. Add curiosity, energy, and engagement to any higher education class.

Students need flexibility, yes, but HyFlex is not the answer, Alanna Gillis writes.

It's supposed to be a "Graphical Syllabus," but every time I say it in my head it's a "Graphical Abstract."If science articles can have graphical abstracts, why not a science course? #GraphicalSyllabus #AcademicTwitter pic.twitter.com/sGz1tPz2MR— Jayme Dyer, PhD (@YouTooBio) January 10, 2023

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