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SDG 2 Zero Hunger – Embedding the Sustainable Development Goals in Learning

This blog post is part of a series around the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Each post will dive into one of the goals and how we as educators can strive to embed these into our own courses. It is…

May 7, 2021 in Instructional / Course Design, Learning Charter, Sustainability.

Introduction to Teaching Online

If someone asked you “How is online teaching different from face-to-face teaching?”, the first thing you might say is that face-to-face teaching involves real time interaction between students and instructors (synchronous) whereas online teaching happens through a computer, with students typically…

May 4, 2021 in Instructional / Course Design, Instructional Strategies, Remote Teaching.

SDG 1 No Poverty – Embedding the Sustainable Development Goals in Learning

This blog post is part of a series around the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Each post will dive into one of the goals and how we as educators can strive to embed these into our own courses. It is…

April 30, 2021 in Instructional / Course Design, Learning Charter, Sustainability.

Apply For Funding to Support Your Open Pedagogy Projects

Open educational resources (OER), particularly open textbooks, have become widely used at USask since the first adoption for a large class in early 2015. More than 8,000 students used OER instead of commercial materials during the 2020-2021 academic year. That…

April 12, 2021 in Assessment and Evaluation, Instructional / Course Design, Instructional Strategies, Open.

Managing and Facilitating Discussions in Canvas

This is the third post in a series of four about using discussions in Canvas to support student learning. Once you’ve settled on why and how discussions will be used in your course and have set up the initial discussion(s)…

November 5, 2020 in Assessment and Evaluation, Canvas, Educational Technology, Instructional / Course Design.

Setting Up Discussions in Canvas

This is the second post in a series of four about using discussions in Canvas to support student learning. Discussions can be set up from within a module, or from the Discussions index page found by clicking on the Discussions…

November 5, 2020 in Assessment and Evaluation, Educational Technology, Instructional / Course Design.

How does Canvas make learning accessible?

This is the second post in a series about how you can use Canvas to integrate the eight Learning Technology Ecosystem Principles. You can find more about these principles here, but in this post, we’ll be looking at the first…

October 1, 2020 in Canvas, Educational Technology, Instructional / Course Design, Remote Teaching.

What are Learning Technology Ecosystem Principles and why are they important?

Technology and education go together like strawberries and cream, or peanut butter and jelly, and in this time of remote instruction, teaching and learning are both enabled by and reliant on technology.   In order for us to be successful in an…

October 1, 2020 in Canvas, Educational Technology, Instructional / Course Design, Learning Charter.

What’s a Well-Designed Canvas Course Look Like?

Just as students appreciate seeing good examples of work before doing their own, instructors designing courses often feel the same way. As the U of S transitions to Canvas we want to provide you with some such examples through the…

September 23, 2020 in Canvas, Instructional / Course Design, Remote Teaching.

Office Hours, Remotely

When we move to remote teaching, we need to consider how we will continue to provide students with student-instructor interaction. One way of offering this is through office hours. While we used to offer office hours outside of lecture or…

June 8, 2020 in Instructional / Course Design, Instructional Strategies, Remote Teaching.

Remote Lab Experiences

Download: Planning for Modules with Labs Lab experiences are often rich, hands-on elements of courses that build on learning outcomes from lectures or achieve a different set of outcomes. There are typically three key buildings blocks to any lab experience.…

May 21, 2020 in Instructional / Course Design, Remote Teaching.

Why You Should Use Modules When Planning Your Course

DOWNLOAD: Planning for Modules Excel Template LINK: Module Checklist Take a look at your course syllabus. What do you want learners to be able to do by the end of the course? Review your learning outcomes and consider these questions:…

May 21, 2020 in Instructional / Course Design, Remote Teaching.

Building Community, Remotely

In an online remote context, virtual learning communities (VLCs) allow us to plan for: Interaction Communication Collaboration This video highlights some of the reasons we might want to develop rich VLCs in remote teaching. Below are some strategies framed from…

May 21, 2020 in Inclusivity, Instructional / Course Design, Remote Teaching.

Start Here…Pick Two

Let’s boil this down. What’s most important for us to rethink as we use our precious hours to redesign our courses for remote learning? Work with a colleague, friend, or student to talk through your answers after you fill this…

May 20, 2020 in Instructional / Course Design.

Tips From Veterans of Remote / Online Teaching

As you prepare to create and teach courses remotely this spring and summer terms, we asked some U of S instructors experienced with this type of teaching to share some quick words of wisdom based on what they learned from…

March 26, 2020 in Assessment and Evaluation, Educational Technology, Instructional / Course Design, Remote Teaching.

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