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 […]
Empowering Students to Succeed – Release Conditions in Brightspace
To facilitate student learning, instructors must consider many factors during their course design process. In addition to discipline specific pedagogy, the modality of the learning environment, the makeup of the student cohort, and their institutional context, instructors must design their learning materials with the student experience in mind. Whether teaching online or in-person, the quality […]
Spring 2024 Teaching to Engage Cohort Shoutouts
A total of 64 current and aspiring instructors have completed the Teaching to Engage Seminar, one of the Office of Teaching Excellence and Innovation’s faculty development offerings, since its first cohort of graduate students participated in the fall of 2022.This three-week intensive course provides a fully asynchronous experience, allowing instructors to discuss research-based pedagogy, experiment […]
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 […]
Document Your Teaching: Wei Zhao’s Presentation
Since Fall 2022, the A&S Office of EdTech has partnered with GSAS to offer a 3-week asynchronous course called Teaching to Engage. This course offers novice and aspiring instructors the opportunity to use various educational technologies with a keen focus on the pedagogical rationale behind using these tools. We’re very excited to share that one […]
Brightspace Quizzes Enhancements for Summer/Fall 2023
Several enhancements have been made to the Brightspace Quizzes tool which will improve its overall usability and make it easier for you to run secure assessments. The overall interface for Quizzes has been updated to more closely match that of the Brightspace Assignments tool. Settings that were formerly in separate tabs are now grouped into four […]
Teaching to Engage Shoutouts
Due to continuing interest and demand, the A&S Office of Educational Technology offered a second iteration of its Teaching to Engage seminar during the latter half of the Spring 2023 semester. As with the previous iteration, this cohort was composed of interdisciplinary graduate students from GSAS. Some students concurrently hold teaching positions or hold Teaching […]
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, […]
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 […]