Most (if not all) students reflect and focus on their grades in each of their courses. There are a number of ways that instructors can keep students informed about the progress they’re making in a class. Here are 5 reasons to use the Brightspace Grades tool to keep students informed about their grades. Transparency First […]
Summer 2024 Teaching to Engage Shoutouts
In partnership with the Graduate School of Arts and Science (GSAS), the Office of Teaching Excellence & Innovation offers a 3-week asynchronous course to graduate students who hope to learn about pedagogy and educational technology. This course is called Teaching to Engage. To date, we’ve had 77 graduates from this offering! We had 13 new […]
Exploring Pedagogy: Authentic Assessment
What is authentic assessment? All assessments inherently do just that: assess. Authentic assessments, however, require students to apply what they’ve learned to a new situation. This is in comparison to a traditional exam that might ask students a multiple choice question. Identifying the correct answer can indicate learning, but doing so does not require students […]
Exploring Pedagogy: Ungrading
What role do grades play in learning? Susan D. Blum’s text Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) encourages instructors to consider the above question. This scholar, in addition to countless others, is a part of a recent movement that seeks to de-emphasize grades attributed to student work in an effort […]
Teaching Innovation Awards
We’re happy to announce that the office is currently accepting proposals for this year’s Teaching Innovation Awards. We’re excited to celebrate the high impact work of A&S faculty, especially as it relates to enriching student learning. Further, we fully support faculty work as each award contributes $1,000 to an instructor’s research account. Past year’s winners […]
Getting Ready for the Spring 2024 Semester
Getting started for each new semester often feels like an opportunity for a refresh! That’s one of the many unique things about working in higher education; we have built in resets at start of each new fall, spring, and summer terms. As you take a step back and consider how you might prepare for the […]
Making Accessible Video Content
Do you use video content in your courses? Many instructors do! Videos can make for invaluable resources to recap important concepts/terms from a lecture, cultivate additional student engagement, and facilitate active learning. Research on active learning in particular has shown to not only enable students to achieve learning goals, but also contributes to an increased […]
We Presented at EDUCAUSE!
Liz Melleby Welch and Shaina Dymond had the privilege of presenting at the EDUCAUSE 2023 online conference last month. It was an exciting experience as it was a simulive session where we pre-recorded our presentation and then actively engaged with participants in chat while the recording was played. We used PowToon to create this dynamic […]
Watch Party for NYU’s Teaching & Learning with Generative AI Conference
We had a great time hosting our watch party for NYU’s Teaching & Learning with Generative AI Virtual Conference! The LaGuardia Student Technology Center graciously hosted our event and the set-up was perfect. Cozy chairs surrounding a big screen fully equipped to join Zoom meetings and conferences. We even had our own camera set-up so […]
Adding Poll Everywhere Activities to Brightspace
Did you know that you could add Poll Everywhere activities to the Brightspace Content tool? Poll Everywhere is NYU’s licensed polling tool and can more traditionally be used to create polls for both in-person and remote events and classes. To keep conversations around course content going beyond class meetings though, Poll Everywhere activities can be […]