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Creating effective and engaging online discussions

Creating effective and engaging online discussions

With links for Canvas Discussions and Piazza where appropriate

As we prepare for fall semester, I’ve been creating some documentation for my department. Occasionally, people outside my department find these useful, so I thought I’d blog them too.

It’s been well established that students understand and retain more from classes where they are able to engage with their peers. Additionally,…

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ES2018 - Creative use of technology to assess students

ES2018 – Creative use of technology to assess students

Enriching Scholarship is an annual series of workshops on teaching and learning at the University of Michigan. This session was on technologies that could help with student assessment.

The session started with a discussion of what is assessment. We tend to think of it as a method of assigning scores/grades (summative assessment), but the discussion showed we really mean a lot more than that. In…

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ES 2018 - Lightning talks - Active Learning

ES 2018 – Lightning talks – Active Learning

Enriching Scholarship is an annual series of workshops on teaching and learning at the University of Michigan. This session was a series of lightning talks on Active Learning. There were 7 presenters. Titles below are my quick reinterpretation, not the listed talk titles (lightning talks = no time to type everything, I just wanted to be sure I got the names right!)

  Yulia Sevryugina: Strategies…

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Enriching Scholarship 2017 - Coaxing Canvas to Support Gameful Pedagogy

Enriching Scholarship 2017 – Coaxing Canvas to Support Gameful Pedagogy

“Gameful” is a model where students build points by completing talks and assessments. In a fully gameful class class, students have an array of options with point values associated with them and they are told what score they have to achieve to earn a particular grade. They then have the freedom to choose which tasks to do and how hard they want to work to achieve a particular grade. Many classes…

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Enriching Scholarship 2017: Inclusive Engagement - From The Classroom To The Meeting Room

Enriching Scholarship 2017: Inclusive Engagement – From The Classroom To The Meeting Room

Just a note before you begin: you might notice as the week goes on my grammar and spelling get worse. That’s because I have less time for proof reading and editing. My apologies if this seems less than professional, but I still have all my regular job duties to do too. People perform best in an environment where they have the flexibility to follow their own ideas, but are given enough direction…

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Enriching Scholarship 2017 Lightning and Thunder Talks

Enriching Scholarship 2017 Lightning and Thunder Talks

This year’s enriching Scholarship saw a new format of presentation: lighting and thunder talks. First each presenter gave a lighting talk about their topic. After everyone did their presentations, we settled in around some tables for small group discussion of their topic. Below I give the synopsis of their lightning talk, followed by any notes that came out of the table discussions I attended…

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