On-Demand Learning for Educators

Helping students avoid academic misconduct can be tricky in any modality. The online space presents additional considerations, both in the way we communicate expectations and in the way we design and set up assignments. This session focuses on many aspects of academic integrity, including what it looks like in the online environment, why students choose to cheat, and what you can do about it in your own online courses. We share ideas for how to prevent cheating and discuss the technology available to you as an instructor. You will have opportunities to reflect on past teaching experiences and to make initial decisions about modifications to future assignments and exams.

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We know that engaging students with lectures, course materials, and each other positively contributes to their academic success. Yet it often feels difficult to invest students in these interactions. In this video, we will help you build a basic understanding of active learning and review some useful active learning strategies to apply in your course. Then we’ll explore how technology can enhance active learning to foster a more engaging and student-centered experience. You will have the opportunity to investigate university-vetted tools and apps and reflect on how their uses and features could support active learning in your classroom.

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Whether you’re teaching online or in person, setting up your course effectively in CarmenCanvas will be crucial for you and your students. This video explores best practices for sharing your syllabus, using the Gradebook, posting course materials, and communicating with students online. We will review Ohio State’s expectations for all Carmen courses, share examples of effective courses, and address how to create a learning environment where students feel connected and informed. Additionally, we discuss the student experience of learning in a digital space.

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Whether you’re new to online assignment design or wish to improve an existing assignment, this video workshop will offer strategies for creating effective assignments that best meet the needs of your students. We will share resources and suggestions for how to design assignments for the online environment, with an emphasis on authenticity, transparency, and alignment to your course outcomes. Multiple examples will be shared throughout the session, and you will have opportunities to apply best practices to your own course.

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Whether you are teaching in person or online, using Carmen to grade and give feedback helps you be more efficient, organized, and transparent, while allowing students to easily find and interpret their grades on assignments and exams.

In this video, we share best practices for developing a meaningful rubric, because the Carmen rubric tool is only as useful as the rubric you create. You will have an opportunity to work on one of your own rubrics and learn how to add it to a Carmen course. We will also demonstrate the SpeedGrader tool, show you how to set up Quiz questions to provide efficient feedback, and highlight the functions of the Carmen Gradebook.

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Whether you’re teaching face-to-face or online, student-to-student interaction is essential for a successful course. But we don’t always have time to let students collaborate during class, and it’s easy to get stuck in a discussion board rut. This video material will spark your creativity for other ways to engage students in collaborative learning in online spaces. By understanding the elements of collaboration that drive learning, you’ll identify opportunities in your own course, create an activity, and begin using the CarmenCanvas tools that support student collaboration.

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Programmatic assessment plays a critical role in supporting student learning and informing ongoing program improvements. However, gathering and organizing assessment data can be time consuming, and it can be difficult to determine how the data might inform reflections on program quality. Nuventive, the university tool for documenting assessment plans, entering results, and monitoring student progress, pairs with CarmenCanvas Outcomes to provide visualizations of student performance within and across courses in a program.
   
Designed for administrators, faculty, and staff who coordinate program assessment, this video will detail how Carmen Outcomes and Nuventive can address program assessment challenges. In this 90-minute session, you will learn about the features of Carmen Outcomes and Nuventive and hear from peers at Ohio State already using these tools. We will help you reflect on the use of Carmen Outcomes in your own program and guide you through the basics of setting up outcomes in Carmen.

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Top Hat is a web-based student response system that enables you to poll your class, present discussion prompts, and display lecture material for a more interactive experience. In this session, you’ll learn how Top Hat can help you engage your students and create opportunities for active learning. We will explain and demonstrate the basic features of the tool, such as creating questions, launching polls, syncing rosters, and integrating with Carmen. We’ll also cover planning lessons with Top Hat templates.

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Hybrid courses offer unique opportunities for both instructors and students. In this workshop, we explore design principles for hybrid courses that help students meet learning outcomes in effective and engaging ways. We will discuss the benefits and limitations of various instructional strategies and explore tools for supporting rich synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences in face-to-face and online components of a course. Additionally, we will address special considerations for teaching a hybrid course given the challenges of the pandemic. You will have opportunities to strategize potential approaches to your own hybrid course.

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What is accessibility, and why does it matter? This video session will get you started in making your course accessible to all learners. You’ll consider how to adjust or reinvent your course materials, activities, and assignments to improve the learning experience for your students. We’ll guide you to proactively apply principles of Universal Design for Learning and accessibility and share university resources to support you in this endeavor.

This material provides an introduction to Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and accessibility. UDL refers to principles and best practices for ensuring that all activities, assignments, outcomes, and instruction are designed so that students have multiple ways to interact with content and be assessed on their learning. Accessibility, in the context we use it, is the practice of designing content and using technology so that students with vision, auditory, motor, and cognitive disabilities can successfully navigate, use, and benefit from them.

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CarmenZoom provides an excellent way for students to connect with us, our course, and each other in online or mixed delivery classes. How can we best engage them and promote learning in this space? This video focuses on gauging student reactions, checking for understanding, and creating opportunities for peer interaction in CarmenZoom. We review various tools—polling, breakout rooms, chat, reactions, annotation, and whiteboard—and consider how to effectively utilize these features in your synchronous online or mixed delivery courses.

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Student performance data can provide a wealth of information about the health of your program or the progress of your students. Yet how can you determine the story the data tells, and how can you use it for meaningful program improvement? Designed for administrators, faculty, and staff who coordinate program assessment, this 90-minute session, the second in our Nuventive series, will help you understand how Nuventive presents Carmen data and how to use that information to inform programmatic change. We will also present examples from colleagues at Ohio State and address how to support your instructors in assessing program outcomes within their courses. 

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Assessing student progress toward program or course learning outcomes is an important part of facilitating student success. Yet it can be difficult to track that progress across a number of assignments or to get a sense of how students are performing as a whole. This workshop will address how Carmen Outcomes can approach these challenges by helping you gather data on student performance. We will discuss how to add course-level outcomes, locate program outcomes, embed outcomes into rubrics, and review performance data. You will also hear examples of how peers at Ohio State are using this tool. 

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