Contract Grading is an alternative grading format in which course grades are based on students’ fulfillment of a predetermined set of learning activities rather than solely on their performance on those activities. Two good examples of Arts & Science faculty use of contract grading can be found in Angela Zito’s Course Exemplar Design Gallery and […]
Ed Discussions: An enhanced online discussions tool for Brightspace
If you are using online discussion forums in your courses you may be interested in a new tool called Ed Discussions. Ed Discussions has been integrated into Brightspace so your students do not need to create and manage a secondary account to login. Creating, managing, and monitoring discussions in Ed is streamlined and intuitive. Importantly, […]
Update on Turnitin
Have you ever used Turnitin? Turnitin is NYU’s licensed plagiarism detector, which is fully integrated into Brightspace. The way the tool works is that Turnitin is first enabled on an assignment in the Brightspace Assignments tool. While there are a number of custom settings that can be configured in Turnitin, the general function of the […]
Don’t Just Tell, Show Your Teaching Philosophy in Action
As we prepare for the close of another semester, we are provided with an opportunity to reflect on our teaching practice and identify ways to share it with others. The Arts & Science Office of Ed Tech supports faculty who wish to publish their Scholarship of Teaching and Learning work, but for those looking for […]
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 […]
Innovations in Instruction
Have you had an opportunity to check out our office’s Innovation in Instruction website? On this website, you’ll find dozens of examples of innovative projects that A&S faculty have designed and facilitated. For many of these endeavors, faculty partnered with the A&S Office of EdTech, NYU IT, and other offices to help actualize exciting learning […]
Have you checked out PowToon?
During the spring 2022 semester, NYU’s User Advisor Group (UAG) published a report that pointed to the need for a self-service animation tool. Then, early on in the fall 2022 semester, NYU licensed PowToon, which is fully integrated with NYU Stream. PowToon is available for use by all members of the NYU community. PowToon allows […]
2023 Arts & Science Teaching Innovation Awards
On March 23, NYU Arts & Science hosted its sixth Teaching Innovation Awards Virtual Conference. Begun during the pandemic as a way of sharing the amazing work happening in remote and hybrid classroom spaces across our school, the conference has earned a reputation in the NYU community as a showcase of inspiring and accessible pedagogical […]
Teaching to Engage
On January, 30th, 2023, an interdisciplinary cohort of graduate students from GSAS began the A&S Office of Educational Technology’s Teaching to Engage seminar. Some student student concurrently hold teaching positions or hold Teaching Assistant (TA) roles. As one of our office’s faculty development offerings, the Teaching to Engage course provides the opportunity to experience the […]
Why should I do SoTL?
The Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) is getting a lot of attention from academics and administrators as a way for educators to measure, evaluate, and disseminate teaching practices. It’s often promoted by offices devoted to faculty development, educational technology, and instructional design at universities, including here at NYU. Further, SoTL research is increasingly considered […]