Online Teaching Tip: Keeping students on track by changing your OAKS Course Home
Your OAKS Course Home doesn’t have to look the way it does now. You can change it to add a widget that can help your students stay on track. Adding the Content Navigator to the OAKS Course Home The Content Navigator is a tool that indicates, to the student, how...
Tech Tip Tuesday: Communicate in a New Way in OAKS
In our OAKS (D2L/Brightspace) classes there are often two types of communication: detailed and thoughtful discussions and class questions and answers. While the Discussion tool is great for the first type of communication, it’s less effective for the Q&A...
Digital scavenger hunts for building class community
Scavenger hunts are a great way to get your students working together for a common goal. This is a wonderful way for them to bond as a class or to gel as a group project team. These types of hunts can be used for assessment as well but I want to focus mainly on...
Small Teaching Tip #13: Building Stronger Learning Communities
In higher education, teaching is often perceived simply as the transmission of knowledge and that can contribute to our focus on content delivery at the expense of other elements of effective teaching. Educational philosopher John Dewey argued that effective teachers...Stay In The Loop!
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