It happens all the time. An instructor assigns a reading that students are asked to complete before the next class. Shortly after the next class starts, it quickly becomes evident that few, if any, students completed the reading. The discussion stalls out and the instructor needs to quickly pivot to keep everyone on track. Enter […]
What is H5P?
In the dynamic landscape of higher education, fostering student engagement and creating effective learning experiences are constant priorities. NYU just integrated H5P, a great tool used to create activities that do just that. H5P offers a wide array of content types (currently over 40!), including interactive videos (with embedded questions), quizzes (multiple choice, fill-in-the-blanks, drag-and-drop), […]
Student Authored Wonda Spaces XR Projects in the Humanities
In Fall 2024, students in two Liberal Studies courses at NYU explored new dimensions of learning by creating immersive virtual reality (VR) projects using Wonda Spaces, a browser-based VR authoring tool provided by NYU’s Digital Studio at Bobst Library. Wonda Spaces enables users to design interactive, multimedia VR experiences with minimal technical expertise, making it […]
Get to Know Your Students – Mid-Semester Surveys
It’s that time of the semester when faculty, students, all of us are feeling the pressure of our workloads. We look at our syllabi, wondering if we still have time to cover everything, we look at the stacks of ungraded student assignments and wonder how we’re going to make the sprint to Thanksgiving break. Certainly, […]
Classroom Activity: Jigsaw
Jigsaw is a classroom activity that involves students working in small groups. You might want to consider using a Jigsaw in learning situations where you wish to integrate multiple pieces of information into group deliberations, such as getting students to practice playing roles in a new process or understanding multiple factors that can shape a […]
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 […]
Paging All Students – Keep Students Engaged and Reinforce Learning with Polls
The recent Poll Everywhere visual changes have us thinking about the flexible student engagement opportunities available through the use of this and other polling tools. Whether you teach a large format class, a small seminar, in-person or online, strategies that reinforce learning and check for understanding are key elements of an engaging course. While typical […]
Exciting Update for Perusall
Perusall, for anyone who hasn’t had the opportunity to use it yet, is a social annotation tool that’s fully integrated with Brightspace. With this tool, instructors can provide articles, videos, and/or podcasts to students who can then annotate and otherwise mark-up the material. Social annotation exercises are wonderful to enable students to construct knowledge with […]
A Brief Take on James Lang’s Small Teaching
Insights from the fields of neuroscience, biology, and cognitive psychology have yielded valuable strategies learners can use to better recall information, keep motivated, and understand their own learning processes. One drawback of such an abundance of learning research is that busy faculty members must follow multiple research fields, possibly far removed from their area of […]