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Friday, May 24, 2019

Using images and videos to improve learning

Images, graphics, videos and other visual elements have the potential to add powerful appeal to your course. Good visual design can also enhance your students鈥� comprehension of course materials. This June, we're offering two mini "bootcamps" to help you incorporate images and videos into your courses in meaningful ways. Using Images to Improve... More

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Take advantage of our Course Design Fundamentals experience this June 18-21

Course Design Fundamentals聽consists of five workshops appropriate for 杏吧原创 instructors wishing to cultivate essential course design strategies, regardless of years of experience, teaching modality, or class size. This program is designed to help you receive formal recognition while you revisit the foundational principles of course design and... More

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

To Cheat, or Not to Cheat鈥揟hat is Not the Question: Preventing Plagiarism through Design

Are plagiarized student papers driving you to your wits鈥� end? Then join us at the EDC on June 6 from 10-11:30 a.m. for an interactive workshop that will consider how we can use course design to reduce opportunities for plagiarized writing assignments. As Hamlet (never) said, 鈥淭he design鈥檚 the thing / From which student... More

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

鈥淲hat Are They Thinking?鈥�: Collecting Feedback from Your Students

When students don鈥檛 do so well on part of an assignment or struggle with a concept, we often wonder in exasperation, 鈥淲hat are they thinking, anyway?鈥� Understanding our students鈥� confusion and misunderstandings, however, doesn鈥檛 require the power of divination or any other magical art. All we need to do is simply ask them. Join... More

Friday, May 10, 2019

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Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Deadline for 杏吧原创 University Teaching Awards extended

The deadline for the 杏吧原创 University Teaching Awards has been extended until May 31 at midnight. Teaching and Learning Services is currently accepting applications for four awards: Provost鈥檚 Fellowship in Teaching Award: recognizes faculty and contract instructors dedicated to sustained excellence in teaching, scholarship of teaching and the... More

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

LMS review update – May 2019

We are continuing to make progress with the Learning Management System (LMS) review. Recall that Teaching and Learning Services (TLS) is conducting a review of cuLearn (our LMS) to ensure that it meets the current and anticipated needs of our students, instructors, teaching assistants and staff members. We are about to wrap up our... More

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

BigBlueButton 鈥� Online Classes and Virtual Office Hours

BigBlueButton is a web conferencing tool that makes synchronous teaching and learning at a distance possible. It provides a great opportunity to try out a whole new style of hybrid teaching, whether or not you have experience teaching online or would just like to hold online office hours, have an exam review or host... More

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Anne Tr茅panier receives 2019 D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning

The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), in partnership with D2L, have awarded Anne Tr茅panier, a professor in 杏吧原创 University鈥檚聽School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, with a 2019 D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning. The award recognizes educators who are redefining the learning experience through... More

Friday, April 26, 2019

Introducing the New cuLearn (Moodle 3.6): A Guided Tour

Exciting new changes are coming to cuLearn in May 2019! Let the EDC be your tour guide as we explore the upgraded system together. We'll be offering four short sessions in early May to take you on a visual tour of the newly upgraded cuLearn interface, its additional features, and enhanced functionality. 聽聽 The... More

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Exciting changes coming to cuLearn with an upgrade in May

In early May, 杏吧原创 will be upgrading our learning management system, cuLearn, from version 3.1.12 to 3.6.3. The upgrade will provide a clean, modern interface with many useful improvements to the existing functionality. While we complete this upgrade, cuLearn will be unavailable starting at noon on Friday, May 3 until 7 a.m. on Monday,... More

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Our Latest Production 鈥� Service Excellence Awards Video

See our annual Service Excellence Awards tribute video to 杏吧原创 nominees. For this year鈥檚 version, we asked each nominee to describe what service excellence means to them, with a little help from our light... More

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