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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.

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.

Single Sign-On Brings New Opportunities For Student Projects

As I write this, USask has almost completed the transition from Blackboard to Canvas. While Canvas may be a lot different, many of the same tools and integrations instructors and students used in Blackboard are still available. Panopto and various…

March 11, 2021 in Canvas, Instructional Strategies, Open.

Elaborations on Canvas collaborations

The transition to remote learning has been in progress for almost a year now, with many instructors grabbing the Canvas bull by the horns and learning how to use the different Canvas tools to provide their students with the best…

January 28, 2021 in Canvas, Instructional Strategies, Remote Teaching.

Initiating Peer Conversations

It’s been a while since I wrote a conversational blog post – in a pre-pandemic world, more of our content on this site was first-person and took the tone of a friendly colleague. In the pandemic context, our blog quickly…

December 2, 2020 in Inclusivity, Instructional Strategies, Internationalization.

How Canvas Tools Can Enable Connection

This post is part of a series about using Canvas to integrate the eight Learning Technology Ecosystem Principles. You can find more about these principles here; in this post, we look at the seventh principle. Designed to enable connection: Learners exist…

November 8, 2020 in Canvas, Educational Technology, Instructional Strategies.

Creating Discussions in Canvas to Support Student Learning

The technical creation of a discussion in Canvas is relatively straightforward and intuitive. What requires deeper initial consideration is how using the discussion tool will support student learning. Here, we look at the necessary planning for setting up purposeful discussions,…

November 5, 2020 in Canvas, Educational Technology, Instructional Strategies, Remote Teaching.

How Canvas supports student control and ownership of learning

This is the sixth 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 fifth…

October 13, 2020 in Canvas, Educational Technology, Instructional Strategies, Remote Teaching.

How Canvas supports students remixing and / or creating

This is the fifth 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 fourth…

October 7, 2020 in Assessment and Evaluation, Canvas, Instructional Strategies, Remote Teaching.

Active and social learning in Canvas

This is the third 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 second…

October 5, 2020 in Canvas, Educational Technology, Instructional Strategies, Remote Teaching.

The “What if…?”s of live Zoom sessions

While we do recommend designing your course for mostly asynchronous learning, and we definitely recommend being explicit and overt about netiquette from the start of the semester, we understand that some of your course will be conducted over live, synchronous…

September 4, 2020 in Instructional Strategies, Remote Teaching.

Remote Breakout Rooms – Facilitating Small Group Discussions and Interactions with Zoom

The move to remote learning has created challenges for actively engaging students in our classes.  A simple think-pair-share activity now requires extensive descriptions of who is partnered with who, how will you communicate, and how much time do you have…

September 2, 2020 in Instructional Strategies, Remote Teaching.

Why Open Educational Practices in Our Context?

In the previous post about open educational practices (OEP) at USask, I explained what they are. In this post, we will explore why so many people are already engaging in OEP, and why you should consider integrating these practices into…

July 28, 2020 in Instructional Strategies, Open, Remote Teaching, Undergraduate Rearch.

What Are Open Educational Practices in Our Context?

We have seen significant growth in the use of open educational resources at the U of S in the past six years. As of this fall, more than a dozen open textbooks have been created or adapted at by instructors…

July 28, 2020 in Instructional Strategies, Open, Remote Teaching, Undergraduate Rearch.

What Can You Do About Academic Misconduct?

The causes of academic misconduct have been well-studied and the following points explain most of this concerning behavior.  Research shows that very few students  plan on doing things like buying papers or crowd-sourcing exam questions when they enroll in courses. …

June 15, 2020 in Academic Integrity, Assessment and Evaluation, Instructional Strategies.

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