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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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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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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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TnT: Save Time with the SpeedGrader Comment Library

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A relatively new Canvas feature, the SpeedGrader Comment Library, allows instructors to easily save and re-use responses, routine or otherwise, across their Canvas courses.

Re-use can be a good thing! Because they have a broad overview of their feedback and comments across a course, instructors can feel ambivalent (or worse) about reusing comments and feedback for multiple students. But the reality is, as long as the comment is accurate and aligned with your grading criteria, the comment is new and useful to the individual student.

Learn more in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Save Time with the SpeedGrader Comment Library

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TnT: Fundamentals of Learning Objectives & Alignment

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Alignment connects a course together from the broadest objectives to the most granular activities. Creating an aligned curriculum facilitates strategic thinking, ensuring—to the extent possible—that everything we and our students do is in service of a particular course’s learning goals.

In this Teaching Tip, you will learn to:

  • Contrast specific, measurable objectives from non-specific, unmeasurable objectives
  • Create specific, measurable course objectives
  • Define “alignment” of course objectives
  • Create specific, measurable module objectives that are aligned with course objectives

Learn more in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Fundamentals of Learning Objectives & Alignment

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Teaching Tip Live – Facilitating Engaging Online Discussions

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Sparking rich discussion can be even more challenging online than in the traditional classroom. In this Teaching Tip Live session, we’ll look at some ideas for prompting and structuring discussions, and even rethinking what discussion means altogether.

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