by Jessica Smith | Oct 18, 2016 | Assessment, Best Practices, Small Teaching Tip, Teaching Advice
In a previous post, I discussed the important role memory retrieval plays in learning. To briefly review: each time we recall a piece of information, we strengthen the neural pathways that move the information from our long-term memories to our working memories. So...
by Mendi Benigni | Oct 14, 2016 | Assessment, OAKS
I just learned that the OAKS Quizzes tool allows you to grade short answer, essay, or long answer questions without knowing which student wrote them. This blind grading feature is something that has evidently been around for awhile but is so nicely hidden most users...
by Jessica Smith | May 24, 2016 | Assessment, Best Practices, Pedagogy, Teaching Advice
Too often, at professional development workshops or on education blogs, there’s an emphasis on designing courses that encourage students to reach the summit of Bloom’s pyramid. There’s absolutely nothing inadvisable about helping students analyze, evaluate, and...
by Kaitlin | Mar 10, 2015 | Assessment, Innovative Instruction, instructional technology, Pedagogy, TLT, Web 2.0
UPDATE: On 3/14/15, we received an email from Geddit notifying us that their servers will be shutdown on July 1, 2015. Contact your instructional technologist to review possible alternatives. What is Geddit? Geddit is an online tool that enables instructors to...