- Observations After My Teaching Gap Years
Learn how Caleb used his experience as an instructional consultant to make sense of his first time back in the classroom after a years-long break. This academic year, I taught for the first time since 2021. In my time away from teaching, many shifts in education have occurred. In this blog, I share insights and… Read more: Observations After My Teaching Gap Years - Education is Like a Burger, Culturally Bound
Just like a “burger” can mean different things across cultures, so too can education, requiring educators to consider diverse learning backgrounds and adapt their classrooms accordingly. I tell this story to highlight how we all approach our lives with the experience that we have had thus far, and this experience is deeply rooted in our… Read more: Education is Like a Burger, Culturally Bound - How I Integrated Panopto into My Canvas Course
To help instructors utilize Panopto in their own courses, this article details how I integrated Panopto into my online COMM 210 course this spring. What is Panopto? Available to Ball State faculty and employees, Panopto is a video platform for creating, managing, and sharing video content. If you are interested in using Panopto as a… Read more: How I Integrated Panopto into My Canvas Course - When Grading Practices Fail
Are you looking for ways to support your students through the assessment/grading process? Five colleagues share their experience with nontraditional and alternative grading practices. Assessment is an important teaching tool. Yet, some aspects of traditional grading systems can reinforce imbalanced power structures. Studying grading practices more closely can help instructors accurately measure students’ knowledge, skills,… Read more: When Grading Practices Fail - Authentic Assessment as an Alternative to Online Proctoring
Considering authentic assessments as a tool to help prevent academic dishonesty. We are living in a time of unprecedented access to technology, much of which can make upholding academic integrity more challenging than ever. When looking to secure Canvas exams from academic dishonesty, one application within the system faculty can turn to is Respondus to… Read more: Authentic Assessment as an Alternative to Online Proctoring