Ball State UniversityThe Teaching Innovation Blog

Month: June 2023

  • A Non-Gamer’s Guide to Gamification Learning
    June 28, 2023 by

    Explore how a gamification for learning experience in one online course fostered empathy and communication skills. I’m not a gamer, but I have always been curious and intrigued by the possibilities of gamification for learning or games-based learning. In this blog, I share what a gamification for learning experience taught me about the power of […]

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  • Thinking Outside the Discussion Board Box
    June 14, 2023 by

    Learn about an alternative way of using Canvas discussion boards to create resources students can refer back to and use. In this post, I outline one of my early struggles with discussion boards and how that struggle led to me wondering how else I could use a discussion board to get the biggest pedagogical bang […]

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