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Kevin Gannon Keynote - Pivotal Pedagogy
Kevin Gannon, PhD was the keynote speaker at the remote conference, Pivotal Pedagogy, in May 2020. Dr. Gannon is the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and Professor of History at Grand View University in Des Moines, Io...
Guest Speaker, Sarah Ray, Pivotal Pedagogy
Sarah Ray gave a talk to participants in Pivotal Pedagogy, May 2020. Dr. Ray is the author of A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet (UC Press, 2020), which came out on Earth Day this year, in the middle of ano...
This workshop introduces broad principles for designing courses that are inclusive, flexible, and organized to align course goals, assignments, and assessments. By the end of this workshop, participants will have articulated well-formed goals fo...
Blackboard Grade Center - Pivotal Pedagogy
An overview of the Blackboard Grade Center, how grades are entered, calculated, and displayed to students.
Pedagogical Sound Bite: The Power of Transparent Assignment Design
This workshop presents an overview of Transparency in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (TILT), an award-winning, scholarly project focused on improving students' learning experiences. Evidence from a national study shows that when facul...
Pedagogical Workshop: Increase Learning While Reducing Cheating
Research shows that cheating behavior is linked, not to individual students, but to the environment in which those students are learning. This is good news, because it means you can actually reduce cheating in your classes. The additional good new...
Technological Sound Bite: Flipgrid Overview
Flipgrid, a video-based, asynchronous discussion tool, is available for free as part of UVM's Microsoft Office 365 suite. Instructors set up prompts and parameters for student videos (including length limits of 15sec to 10min). Students respond to...