Many of us spend summer revisiting and revising our courses and preparing new ones. This link will give you guidelines and structure, a helpful advantage toward enacting these changes: Preparing or Revising a Course.
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Many of us spend summer revisiting and revising our courses and preparing new ones. This link will give you guidelines and structure, a helpful advantage toward enacting these changes: Preparing or Revising a Course. With final exam preparation underway, guidelines for test construction are particularly useful for many of us. For a quick list of advantages, disadvantages and recommendations for constructing exam questions, see: Designing Test Questions Preventing plagiarism in your course can start with a discussion about properly citing sources. An open conversation about what counts as plagiarism can go a long way toward preventing it.
See: Using SafeAssign for a video tutorial of the process. Peer-to-peer teaching enables students to engage with course content on a deeper level and can positively shape student attitudes. For recommended group work strategies, procedures and assessment techniques see: Collaborative Learning: Group Work and Study Teams Tech Tip: Improving Student Learning Online Recognizing your students by name is a helpful tool for classroom management and for increasing student engagement. ThinkSpace provides a framework for developing multiple aspects of your course such as designing rubrics, marking up papers, peer editing, creating scenarios and complex problem-solving components, and constructing ePortfolios. Students can be enrolled individually or in teams. Please contact Holly Bender if interested in learning more about ThinkSpace. Tech Tip: Five Tips for Submitting Final Grades from Blackboard Learn
A Team-Based Learning (TBL) approach to teaching enables students to work toward common learning goals through intentional exercises encouraging collaboration. This instructional strategy transforms large classrooms into small, supportive learning environments with an atmosphere of engagement, community and common purpose. TBL is equally effective within the small classroom environment as well. Reflections on TBL Course offers student perspectives on the benefits of the TBL experience. Tech Tip: Multiple Choice Test Template
Learning-centered multiple choice exams use straightforward language and rely on student synthesis of course material rather than common knowledge. Tech Tip –Multiple-Choice to Promote Discussion Using multiple choice questions to assess student learning can be accomplished outside of exams as well. Visit Multiple-Choice Questions You Wouldn’t Put on a Test: Promoting Deep Learning Using Clickers to learn more about ways to encourage discussion in your classroom with technology. |
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