Focus Area: ePortfolios
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Building in formative assessment
In the wake of high-stakes testing culture, education researchers have come to promote assessment practices that emphasize formative evaluation. Unlike a summative assessment, which measures student performance at the end of a course or a unit, a formative assessment helps you and your students take stock of achievements in the midst of instruction. Rather than…
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Revitalizing your teaching philosophy with new practices
Statements of teaching philosophy have long been standard documents for academic employment and promotion dossiers. These statements explain in a page or two how and why we teach. (Guides on how to write a good one proliferate—the University of Michigan’s Center for Research on Learning and Teaching links many of them here). In addition to…
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Help Students Learn to Take Exams with Exam Wrappers
Our reading for May 5-11, 2022 explores the idea of Exam Wrappers to help students prepare for exams. Help Students Learn to Take Exams with Exam Wrappers – The attached article from Center for Teaching and Learning and Indiana University introduces the idea of exam wrappers as extra activities scheduled around your exam to help…
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Unequal Competence: The Gap Between Passing and Learning
Our reading for April 21-27, 2022 explores some metacognitive techniques to share with students to help them realize when they might need to change their learning strategies to succeed in class. Unequal Competence: The Gap Between Passing and Learning – This article from the Learn Well Project provides 2 conditions that need to be met…
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Audrey Watters: The Ed Tech Skeptic
Ed Beck, Teaching, Learning and Technology Center A colleague recently shared with me an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education in which Goldie Blumensyk, the one of the Chronicle’s senior writers on the topics of innovation and technology in higher education. It starts… A conversation with ‘ed tech’s Cassandra.’ The head of higher education’s…
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Faculty Panel #1: What Did I Learn From Pandemic Teaching I Want to Keep Using?
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Course Refresh Weekly Challenge Week 4 – Creating Digital Critical and Creative Thinking Activities
Week 4 – Effective Course Activities This 6-week challenge will help faculty focus on specific tasks to work on for your fall courses as we prepare for the possibility of different teaching modalities. Each challenge is based on the TLTC’s simplified OSCQR (OPEN SUNY Course Quality Rubric) checklist. We hope that as you build your…
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Journals for student reflection on learning
Anita Levine,Elementary Education and Reading,SUNY Oneonta I use the Bb Journaling tool in almost all my education classes, including my online grad. course. Works well for me. I make just one journal and they can each do/submit their writing in that one. They can make as many entries as they want in just the one…
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