Category: Pedagogy and Andragogy


  • 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, […]

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  • Recording Better Videos for Your Class

    Learn tips and tricks from equipment to filming space for recording even better videos for your classes at home or in your office. As the Multimedia Design Specialist in the Division of Online and Strategic Learning, I use my video and design skills to help Ball State University faculty upgrade their class quality in several […]

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  • Toward a Critical Framework for AI: An Interview with Jon Ippolito

    Toward a More Critical Framework for AI: An Interview with Author Jon Ippolito

    Read a thought-provoking interview about AI in education with Jon Ippolito, keynote speaker at the 2025 Teaching and Technology Summit. Researcher and author Jon Ippolito will open the Ball State March 20-21 Teaching and Technology Summit with the opening keynote address, “Thinking or Shrinking? AI and Post-Citation Scholarship.” Jon Ippolito is an artist, writer, and curator […]

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  • 2025 Teaching and Technology Summit Keynotes

    Learn more about the Opening and Closing Keynote Presentations at the 2025 Ball State University Teaching and Technology Summit. Join us for the 2025 Ball State University Teaching and Technology Summit. With two virtual half days of presentations, the summit provides a space for discussion and collaboration between colleagues on the evolving landscape of teaching […]

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  • Three Ways to Monitor Attendance on Canvas 

    Attendance policies are standard practice at Ball State. Whether individually created or departmentally assigned, most instructors keep track of their students’ absences. One way to monitor attendance is through Canvas’ Roll Call feature. Roll Call allows instructors to record attendance, while providing a grade based on the number of absences entered, but the tool does […]

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