Focus Area: Project Based Learning
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Crafting Podcast Assignments
This month, the Faculty Center hosted a roundtable conversation focused on assigning podcasting to students in a range of courses. Faculty from Communications, Education, and more shared assignments they’ve developed for major and gen ed contexts across the lower and upper divisions. While some assignments, such as those for a Digital Storytelling course, helped students…
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Engaging students: Collaboration in the classroom
After years of remote and hybrid instruction, students are both excited to work with others and nervous about how to. Faculty can help students find supported paths to making connections in the classroom. Collaborative learning encourages students get to know each other, gives them a chance to grapple with unfamiliar insights or viewpoints, and can…
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Introducing Teaching Foundations: A Series on Pedagogy
Collaboration, Inclusive & Global Learning, Project Based Learning, Student Engagement, Universal DesignWelcome to Teaching Foundations, a new content series devoted to sharing pedagogy resources responsive to our moment with teaching faculty at SUNY Oneonta. I’m Racheal Fest, and I’m excited to join our campus community this semester, supporting faculty pedagogy in the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center. I bring a background in critical pedagogy, student success…
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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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Scaffolding and Organizing a Semester–Long Project
Julie LicataDepartment of MusicSUNY Oneonta In this video, Julie Licata presents her course organization to make sure her students engage with each other for a semester long group project. She shows her Blackboard set up–putting students into groups, modules for projects, and discussion boards. She assigns and organizes week long mini projects that build up…
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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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Alternative Assessments to Avoid Plagiarism
Dr. Kjersti VanSlyke-Briggs, Department of Secondary Education and Educational Technology, SUNY Oneonta, This short video discusses a few ways to creatively avoid potential plagiarism and non-sanctioned collaborative teaming (AKA cheating) in online course environments. It highlights online tools and authentic assessment approaches to written papers in which students must think outside of the box to…
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