As the university is not renewing our contract for Respondus within its online learning environments, we want to take a brief, birds-eye look at the numerous strategies to ensuring academic integrity when assessing student learning without the use of digital proctoring. What’s happening? At the end of Spring 2021 quarter, Respondus LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor will be disabled within
In response to the overall success of Seattle Pacific University’s adaption to remote learning through the COVID-19 Pandemic and positive feedback to the voluntary faculty training through the Winter Academy, Educational Technology and Media’s Brennan Stewart and Debi Bearden sat down with a few faculty members to discuss their online learning experience, takeaways from the Winter Academy, and their working
One cannot first choose a pedagogy and then a technology; pedagogy is the thoughtful combination of methods, technologies, social and physical designs and on-the-fly interactions to produce learning environments, student experiences, activities, outcomes or whatever your preferred way is of thinking about what we do in education. All elements inevitably shape the ways in which the other elements are used
Last week, ETM hosted daily hour-long conversations with participating staff and faculty at Seattle Pacific University, in conjunction with the Winter Teaching Academy. For more information about the Winter Teaching Academy, make sure to check out our previous post here: https://scholars.spu.edu/etm/2020/11/30/etm-winter-academy-2020/. During these open conversations, ETM, faculty, and staff came together to diverge on four key topics, reflecting the topics of the Winter Teaching Academy: Course Planning and Alignment,
ETM is offering an academy from November 30, 2020 through January 31, 2021. This academy was designed to be as flexible as possible. Modules do not need to be completed in order and participants can choose from four larger modules or 13 bite-sized modules. Participants who complete all four modules and have a 20 minute conversation with an Instructional Designer
“Cognition and emotion are the two sides of the same coin” – Zaretta Hammond The infographic below, created by expert Michelle Pacansky-Brock and the T&L Innovations @ CI team, captures the key ideas of humanizing your online course. Some of the suggestions include how to facilitate your online course, excellent elements of course design, insight into learning domains, and how to promote a Community of Inquiry. Humanizing your course is a first step in fostering community within your course. As students see
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Sometimes we find things that are great ideas, that are innovative, fun, or useful. Things that at some point we hope to do more with but that we don’t immediately have time to customize or write up. They’re here to inspire. If you want to work on something connected to these – let us know! Wikipedia in Education Here’s a