Give students a new way to read online by adding your personally developed eBook to your online course content. Interactive eBooks can be easily embedded in your Elentra or Canvas learning management system. With a digital page-flipping sound and page swiping features, students can flip through your eBook with the same ease as a traditional…
Elentra can host a discussion board for faculty and students to create a forum for their courses. This session will review what the discussion board is, how to create one, and best practices for using one in a course. Learning Objectives: Locate the Discussion Boards Identify the steps to create a discussion board…
In collaboration with WesternU’s CETL 3D printing and digital simulation team, we developed two unique projects to support educational gaps in the ophthalmic LASER procedures lab within the Surgical Eye Care course. These experiences may serve as an example to other departments in exploring how these on-campus services can help in their didactic/lab needs. Learning…
Learn how to maximize the student experience by utilizing Teams in conjunction with your LMS. In this session, you will learn how to record meetings in Teams for asynchronous instruction, how to utilize breakout rooms, and best practices for engaging your students with Teams.
We will showcase projects that used 3D and XR technologies (virtual and augmented reality) and gamification methodologies to enhance students learning. And talk how we can make your project become reality.
OER stands for Open Educational Resources, but it also has a second informal meaning of Online and Electronic Resources. Attend this presentation from a faculty perspective on how to mine “things” from the online world for your courses. Feel more confident in locating electronic resources that are appropriate for your course. Instructional objectives: Discuss the…
We’ve all heard it, and we all think we’re good at it, but multitasking is a LIE! Attend this presentation and learn about how the brain works and how multitasking is really not effective. We will participate in an exercise that proves multitasking is a lie and view several video snippets to help you explain…
Adaptive learning is one technique for providing personalized learning, which aims to provide efficient, effective, and customized learning paths to engage each student. This session is based on The 7 Things You Should Know About… series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) which provides a quick and concise overview of a single topic for time-pressed…
Planning a lesson can be tedious and confusing when you don’t have a framework for lesson structure in place. In this session, participants will be given tips for lesson planning and designing learning events. There are many methods to lesson planning and this session will review examples of some innovative and well-known approaches to lesson design. Session Objectives: Introduce lesson design structure and concepts of…
How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist, Adam Grant, studies “originals”: thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals – including embracing failure. Learning objectives: Identify main habits of “original” thinkers Discuss & share…