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Vocab Scrabble: Play & Learn with AI Scrabble!
Play Scrabble with AI generated letters and validation, improve your vocabulary and impress your friends!
Improving college campus systems for student mental health
Recent Student Voice data from Inside Higher Ed and Generation Lab finds two in five college students say stress or mental health is impacting their academics a great deal, and they want help from their institutions to take the pressure off.
The Great Brightspace Race 🏁 - Brightspace
About this Course Gamification is the key theme for this Learning Center resource 🎲 Designed by one of D2L's Senior Instructional Designers, the Great Brightspace Race takes you on a tour of Canada and D2L’s North American offices as you learn about Release Conditions and how they can be used to tailor your course to each…
Harness the power of the cliffhanger to hook Gen Z’s scrolling minds | THE Campus Learn, Share, Connect
Learn from Gen Z’s social media use to engage their attention. Keep it bite-sized and high-impact – and leave them wanting more
Back to school, with kindness
Derritt Mason reflects on kindness in teaching and learning before a new academic year starts.
Graphic content: using mind mapping in class
In my mind, there are three great ways to use mind maps in the classroom:
1) mastering a lot of new information in an intro class;
2) going beyond rote learning;
or 3) planning an essay, paper, project, or complex assignment, especially in a group
What to Know About the UDL Guidelines 3.0 Update
We break down the biggest changes in the updated UDL Guidelines from CAST and share how they effect teachers, leaders, administrators and coaches.
The UDL Guidelines
The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.
Design and pedagogy for transformative intercultural learning tara harvey 2017
Working the Gardens of Our Classrooms, with James Lang – Teaching in Higher Ed
James Lang reads his piece, Working the Gardens of Our Classrooms, on episode 529 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
higheredpraxis.substack.com-8 Using Active Learning.pdf
352. Enhancing Inclusive Instruction – tea for teaching
High Structure Course Design with Justin Shaffer - Intentional Teaching
During these late summer episodes of the podcast, I’m sharing some interviews I conducted in much cooler times. Back in February as part of a slow read of my book Intentional Tech, I talked with Justin Shaffer, teaching professor in chemical and biological engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. Chapter three of the book deals with using technology to make visible “thin slices” of student learning. I reached out to Justin, who is also associate dean of undergraduate studies at Mines, to learn about some of the ways he uses technology both in and out of the classroom to learn more about his students’ learning.That topic quite naturally led to discussions of Justin’s high-structure approach to course design. Justin has a book coming later this year (or maybe early 2025) from Macmillan Learning “High Structure Course Design for STEM” that will incredibly useful to STEM instructors of all experience levels. Justin is now officially the first repeat guest on Intentional Teaching. He was part of a panel way back in episode 9 on studio-style biology courses!Episode Resources· Justin Shaffer’s website, https://www.recombinanteducation.com/· Sign-up for updates about Justin’s forthcoming book on high-structure course design, https://forms.gle/PEew6AsgFpijopm96· High Structure Course Design on the UVA Teaching Hub, https://teaching.virginia.edu/collections/high-structure-course-design· Getting Started with Discipline-Based Education Research on the UVA Teaching Hub, https://teaching.virginia.edu/collections/getting-started-with-discipline-based-education-research· Intentional Teaching Episode 9 on Studio-Style Biology Courses, https://intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/12409419-studio-biology-with-scott-chirhart-robbie-bear-and-justin-shaffer
Don't say "click here"; not everyone will be clicking - Quality Web Tips
W3C QA - tip to make your links more appealing
(14) The main reasons why we shouldn't use "click here" as link text | LinkedIn
A typical pattern on the web is for links to hide behind text that says “click here”, “read more”, or similar. I’m going to share the reasons why this is bad and suggest some better patterns to use.
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Co-Creating Expectations for Participation with Students – Christina Katopodis, PhD
UDL Toolkit | Dickinson College
This toolkit will provide ideas for adjustments to your teaching strategies to help you move closer to the ideal environment laid out in the principles of Universal Design for Learning.
insidehighered.com-Student-centered teaching should consider instructors first.pdf
351. Extending Kindness – tea for teaching
...kindness is fundamentally honest. So it means you’re going to have some really tough conversations with your colleagues and with your students. You’re not going to mislead them about how they’re doing in your class. And kindness is really about accountability, it’s about positionality, and it’s about responsibility. And those are all things that I think niceness just elides.
timeshighereducation.com-Banning lecture capture would not free students from loneliness.pdf
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Minding Bodies, Senses, and Perception with Susan Hrach
In today’s episode, we talk about the content of her Minding Bodies book as it relates to perception, specifically the UDL guideline to provide multiple options for student perception which often i…
Collections — UVA Teaching Hub
Expertly curated content on a wide range of pedagogically focused topics: UDL, neurodivergent, AI-Driven writing classroom, high structure, mental health, etc
Accessible and Affordable Learning Through Open Educational Resources, with Ann Taylor – Teaching in Higher Ed
Ann Taylor shares ways to offer accessible and affordable learning through open educational resources (OERs) on episode 526 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
chronicle.com-How to Get Your Students to Read.pdf
Universal Design for Learning — UVA Teaching Hub
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) seeks to eliminate barriers to learning based on research on how people learn. It's an inclusive approach that recognizes student strengths and provides flexibility in how students access and engage with material and show what they know.