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TnT: The Tri-Campus Rubric and RSI: Part 1

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The US Department of Education requires (see CFR Title 34, Section 600.2) that online learning courses “support regular and substantive interaction between the students and the instructor or instructors, either synchronously or asynchronously.” This “RSI” requirement has now been explicitly integrated with the tri-campus Rubric for Designing and Refining Hybrid and Online Courses. In this tip, we take a look at where RSI comes into play and how it relates to some of the items noted as RSI-related in the Rubric.

Check it out in the most recent of our Tips ‘n Techniques series: The Tri-Campus Rubric and RSI: Part 1.

 

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Teaching Tips Live: Innovators & Insights – Kurt Hahn and the Seven Laws of Salem

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Innovators and Insights: Kurt Hahn & the Seven Laws of Salem

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In the first offering in Innovators & Insights, a new series returning to, rethinking, recontextualizing, and reinvigorating some of the great education and technology thinkers of the past, we considered the visionary educational philosopher Kurt Hahn. Hahn’s pedagogy—neatly synopsized as Expeditionary Learning, now more often subsumed in the modern idea of Experiential Learning, and a core of one of Hahn’s many creations, Outward Bound—centers on learner agency, leadership, accountability, exploration, and room for failure.

October 12, 2023

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Teaching Tips Live: Collaborative Annotation with hypothes.is

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Collaborative Annotation with hypothes.is

Collaborative Annotation with hypothes.is (with Dr. Nicole Blair)

Did you know Canvas provides an integrated tool for shared annotation of web pages and PDF files, an activity that is often significantly more engaging and pedagogically rich than the traditional discussion forum activities? Learn how the tool works, and how students respond, in this 50-minute session with Dr. Nicole Blair.

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TnT: From Feedback to Feedforward

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Traditional feedback focuses on the past, which can have significant negative effects. Feedforward, and the REPAIR model, are designed to counter some of these issues and provide a more supportive, productive, and generative approach.

In one sense, the Feedforward idea can be seen as a repackaging of what we all know as formative assessment. That said, formative feedback is not only underutilized, but the REPAIR model provides a specific approach to what can be, in practice, an amorphous idea.

Learn about the REPAIR model for creating feedforward in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: From Feedback to Feedforward.

 

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TnT: Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom

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Poster depicting "Fair Use: It's The Law - Exercise Your Copyright Rights in the Classroom"

More often than not, teachers underestimate the range of copyrighted materials they can safely, legally use in their courses. A solid understanding of Fair Use, as well as alternatively licensed materials—and how to find and identify them—can greatly increase your instructional flexibility and freedom.

Let’s take a closer look at copyright and Fair Use in the classroom in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series, the aptly titled Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom,

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TnT: Considering ChatGPT

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What is ChatGPT? Why does it matter to educators? The “danger” to education posed by ChatGPT has been overstated and the positives too often overlooked.

Let’s take a closer look at ChatGPT and some of its possibilities in teaching and learning in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series Considering ChatGPT,

We’ll delve deeper into pedagogical approaches using ChatGPT in future Teaching Tips!

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Teaching Tips Live: Open Pedagogy with Marisa Petrich

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Renewable Assignments depiction featuring a teacher and students pointing to an assignment and the earth and audience.

What is Open Pedagogy? How does it relate to OER? What are the benefits for your students and yourself? What are “renewable assignments?” How do UW instructors engage in open teaching and learning? Where can they get help?

All these questions, and more, are covered in our most recent Teaching Tips Live conversation featuring Marisa Petrich, Instructional Design Librarian and Open Teaching and Learning expert.

View the full Teaching Tip for further resources, including video highlights, links to sites and information shared during the conversation, and information on earning a stamp on your Passport to Teaching Excellence.

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Teaching Tip Live: Student Publishing with Google Sites

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Canvas provides a plethora of useful features for facilitating a rich learning experience, but it is not particularly useful for teaching and learning in the open. Google Sites is a simple web publishing for students (and teachers!) to easily publish, and work, outside the Canvas walls. Like a tent. Get it? Onward!

Topics include:

  • What is Google Sites?
  • Why Open Teaching and Learning?
  • Don’t Fear the FERPA
  • How to Access and Build Google Sites
  • Examples from UW and Beyond

Teaching Tip Document, Video, and Passport Information