by Mendi Benigni | Jul 23, 2020 | Best Practices, Distance Ed, Innovative Instruction, Pedagogy
TLT is excited to share a couple of announcements with you that we hope will serve as resources as you continue to prepare your courses for the fall semester. RESILIENT TEACHING SITE As was shared with faculty in June (attached), the Resilient Teaching Task Force...
by Mendi Benigni | Nov 21, 2019 | Assessment, Best Practices, Pedagogy
What is the purpose of Student Learning Outcomes? SLOs help us, faculty/program/ department/school, to determine and define what we want the learners to be able to DO, KNOW, & VALUE as a result of taking the course AND helps us design, evaluate and redesign the...
by Mendi Benigni | Nov 12, 2019 | Assessment, Collaboration, Faculty Focus, Pedagogy, Teaching Advice
I was inspired by a Faculty Focus article when creating this newsletter. This article spoke about adding role playing activities to your teaching to act as practicum experience but I think you can take it further. The article states, “Role play can be...
by Mendi Benigni | Sep 23, 2019 | Assessment, Best Practices, Pedagogy
WHY WON’T STUDENTS READ/USE THE FEEDBACK I GIVE?A complaint I hear over and over again from faculty is “What can I do to make my students read and use the feedback I give them?” Faculty and teachers spend so much time giving detailed feedback and...
by Mendi Benigni | Sep 9, 2019 | content, Pedagogy, Research
In the early 2000s a popular lesson type was a webquest. The goal of this was to create an inquiry-oriented lesson where all of the information comes from web-based resources. This isn’t a newsletter on how to create a webquest. There is tons of information on the...
by Mendi Benigni | Aug 19, 2019 | Assessment, Best Practices, Collaboration, Distance Ed, Pedagogy
TLThd is launching a new service to all instructors at CofC…CLASS OBSERVATIONS These observations can be for your face-to-face or your online classes. An instructional technologist will come to your class (or review your OAKS online class) and observe you and...