Teaching and Learning

Here's a quick overview of using Badgr in Canvas to automatically award badges based on module completion requirements.

Canvas is the LMS that makes teaching and learning easier. Flipgrid is the video discussion platform that makes teaching and learning more personal, fun, and engaging. Integrate the two platforms s...

Several years ago, I worked on a project to create an e-learning course for a customer relationship management platform, and we had to populate the “sandbox” system with fake names. Doesn’t seem too hard, right? Well, not for the first 25 to 50 names, but I was amazed at how quickly my

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Emojis are a fun way to enhance the content in your course. You can add emojis anywhere in your Canvas course including Pages, Rubrics, Discussions, etc. This guide will show you how to add emojis to Pages.

The emoji search engine. A fast emoji search experience with options to browse every emoji by name, category, or platform.

On rare occasion, you may be presented with an error message in Canvas. We are working to make the error messages more meaningful, but in the meantime, you may find some helpful tips below. The tips below are suggested actions based on past ...

Canvas Studio Video Quizzing provides instructors, teacher assistances (TAs), designers, and Studio account admins with a simple way to create engaging

RETRIEVAL PRACTICE AND FEEDBACK FOR READING COMPREHENSION Paul A. Kirschner & Mirjam Neelen Tips from two overview studies: Learners learn better when using practice tests and they remember a t…

Amid school closures, online classes can offer new opportunities for culturally responsive teaching. Here’s what one educator is trying with her fifth grade students.

Download an expanded version of this article (PDF)Understanding how time “works” in online courses can be a challenge for instructors:How do I determine the total time on task expected of students?How can I calculate the time students will need to complete course work?What should students be doing to accomplish course goals and learning outcomes?What should I be doing with my

Find out how to apply learning science in online classes The concept of small teaching is simple: small and strategic changes have enormous power to improve student learning. Instructors face unique and specific challenges when teaching an online course. This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom. This book outlines practical and feasible applications of theoretical principles to help your online students learn. It includes current best practices around educational technologies, strategies to build community and collaboration, and minor changes you can make in your online teaching practice, small but impactful adjustments that result in significant learning gains. Explains how you can support your online students Helps your students find success in this non-traditional learning environment Covers online and blended learning Addresses specific challenges that online instructors face in higher education Small Teaching Online presents research-based teaching techniques from an online instructional design expert and the bestselling author ofSmall Teaching.

Truly collaborative group work is complex and messy, so we have a few tips and tools to get students working interdependently.

While collaborative learning through group work has been proven to have the potential to produce stronger academic achievement than other kinds of learning environments (Johnson, Johnson, & Smith, 2006), it can be challenging to implement successfully because many students come to college withou

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by Derek Bruff, Director If you’ve read Norman Clark’s hypothetical day in the life of a physically distanced classroom, then you’ve probably started to worry about how faculty and other instructors might facilitate discussion, group work, and other forms of active learning this fall. If I’m standing at the front of the classroom with half...

HyFlex is a course design model that presents the components of hybrid learning in a flexible course structure that gives students the option of atten

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a powerful framework for educators that centers around three principles aligned with neuroscience research.

Digital Bodies offers news and analysis of VR, AR, and AI and how they will revolutionize the future of learning, work, and entertainment. We offer education consulting services, Augmented and Virtual Reality workshops, interactive sessions, and keynote talks on emerging technologies and the ethical challenges in our future.

How to create an active, engaged learning environment in a large classroom setting (250+ students) using technology and flipped classroom techniques.

Faculty who teach studio art courses, which depend heavily upon experiential learning and specialized equipment and supplies, faced some significant challenges when Wellesley shifted to remote instruction in March. Yet students in ARTS222: Print Methods: Typography/Book Arts, taught by Katherine Ruffin, lecturer in art and director of the Book Studies Program, are thriving despite the physical separation, thanks to Ruffin’s advance preparation coupled with her innovative approach to virtual collaboration.