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January
January
Exploring Alternative Grading: Contract Grading
Exploring Alternative Grading: Contract Grading
January 4th
Specifications- or labor-based grading is a strategy some faculty have used to shift traditional grading dynamics. Come hear Salem State University School of Education faculty Megan Murphy and James Noonan talk about their experiences trying this alternative grading approach in their classrooms.
Welcome Students to Your Course Using the acronym O.N.E. (Organization, Navigation and Expectations)
Welcome Students to Your Course Using the acronym O.N.E. (Organization, Navigation and Expectations)
January 8th
As instructors, we know where to begin in our courses, but do our students? The acronym O.N.E. is useful when we address the important issue of making sure we welcome students to our online courses in an organized, accessible way...
Integrating LinkedIn Learning to Support Learning Outcomes and Department Goals
Integrating LinkedIn Learning to Support Learning Outcomes and Department Goals
January 10th
Flip the learning in your classroom with videos from LinkedIn Learning. Join us to learn how to embed LinkedIn Learning content that align with student learning outcomes while supporting various learning preferences (auditory, visual and kinesthetic). LinkedIn Learning provides soft and hard skills needed in the 21st...
Get Your Course Ready to Go Using CIT's Beginning of Semester Checklist!
Get Your Course Ready to Go Using CIT's Beginning of Semester Checklist!
January 10th
Let NECC's Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) help you make sure your Blackboard course is ready to go. Using CIT's Beginning of the Semester Checklist, this workshop will guide you through the steps for making sure your course runs smoothly for you and your students....
Creating a Course Navigation Video
Creating a Course Navigation Video
January 11th
For students, beginning a new online course can be both exciting and overwhelming. A great way to relieve that anxiety and help students get familiar with your course is by making a short video to help them get started. A welcome video can help you walk your students through the course and explain the course structure and navigation...
Setting Up the Grade Center in Blackboard
Setting Up the Grade Center in Blackboard
January 12th
Come learn how to make grading for your courses easier and more efficient for you and your students. In this workshop, you will learn how to set up and use the grade center inside your Blackboard class. By the end of this workshop, you will know how to: evaluate your course grading system, identify the key features of a Blackboard...
Interactive Assignment Design through AI
Interactive Assignment Design through AI
January 16th
As AI tools become more powerful and accessible, they present opportunities to reinvent assignment design - if used judiciously. That’s why we developed this seminar—to equip educators to leverage these technologies ethically to solve real-world problems and make a genuine impact through multimedia.
Regular and Substantive Interaction in Online Courses: A Primer
Regular and Substantive Interaction in Online Courses: A Primer
January 17th
The purpose of this virtual session is for faculty to intentionally create activities and implement methods within online courses that are considered regular and substantive interactions (RSI) with students and ensure some level of consistency. On July 1st, 2021, the U.S. Department of Education updated its regulations for...
Student Accessibility Resources: What Accessibility Means To You
Student Accessibility Resources: What Accessibility Means To You
January 30th
All accessibility features benefit everyone. In this workshop, students will learn about the accessibility features in the tools and systems they use, how they can personally benefit from them, and what accessibility and digital accessibility mean to them. Workshop is primarily intended for students, but both students and faculty are welcome.
February
February
Grading for Equity
Grading for Equity
February 8th
In a recent book, Grading for Equity, Joe Feldman proposes that faculty should only grade their students based on their knowledge of course objectives and not on elements such as participation and the completion of homework. He argues that grading based partially on behavior skews grades in such a way that someone who...
Hypothesis - A Tool to Make Reading Active and Social
Hypothesis - A Tool to Make Reading Active and Social
February 9th
There is an exciting new active reading tool on Blackboard! Hypothesis is a social annotation tool that allows you and your students to actively read and annotate a text together as a group. You and your students can read, annotate and interact with a text to create a truly social annotation experience in your online or face-to-face classes...
The SoftChalk Cloud Overview
The SoftChalk Cloud Overview
February 23rd
Are you ready to make your online course content more engaging for you and your students? Join part one of this two part workshop series to learn more about how the SoftChalk program can help you design interactive learning modules, lessons, assignments and lectures that will breathe new life in your course content...
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