Category Teaching Tips

Best practices, Teaching Tips

Why should we care about OER?

Around 65% of your students may not purchase your textbook due to cost. This can have a significant impact on their success in your course. Using free and open education resources (OER) can ameliorate expenses for students and help make higher education more equitable for all students.

Moss
July 5, 2021

Best practices, Teaching Tips

How to inspire success through student interaction

Get ready to inspire someone to do their personal best this semester. This Teaching Tip includes ideas for increasing interaction in your course. Start with one thing and be consistent. Your choices will impact student learning and achievement. Before the…

UAF CTL Staff
June 28, 2021

Best practices, Teaching Tips

Skeuomorphism – How to use it or lose it

Skeuomorphism is where an object in software mimics its real-world counterpart. Learning Management Systems are riddled with skeuomorphism and this affects your course structure. Embracing the strength of online courses as learning environments requires the intentional use of skeuomorphism and modern web design.

Best practices, Inclusive Practice, Teaching Tips

Ideas for inclusive teaching practice

Inclusive teaching practice involves embracing diversity holistically throughout your course and activities. This Teaching Tip provides some ideas and resources for how to think about your course through an inclusive lens.

Moss
June 15, 2021

Best practices, Inclusive Practice, Teaching Tips

The art of the welcome announcement

Sending a welcoming message to students at the beginning of the semester is an important step in designing an effective online course. Intentional design and language choices in the announcement can create a lasting positive impression.

Best practices, Inclusive Practice, Teaching Tips

Introducing the online course evaluation rubric

The Online Course Evaluation Rubric serves as a framework for making notes on and progress toward preparing your course for next semester. Several instructional designers worked together gathering important course elements into categories with evaluative statements to jumpstart your review.

Christen Booth
June 1, 2021

Best practices, Teaching Tips

What is CircleIn and when will students have access?

UAF is expanding its pilot study of CircleIn, a supported online tool for peer study groups. Starting in fall 2021, CircleIn will be available to all students at UAF.

Dan LaSota
May 25, 2021

Best practices, Teaching Tips

My course content is in Canvas. Now what?

Blackboard courses are currently being migrated to Canvas to help make the transition easier for faculty. Once there, courses will be ready to teach with some lightweight cleanup.

vjmcmahan
May 17, 2021

Best practices, Canvas, Teaching Tips

Understanding content organization in Canvas

Content organization functions differently in Canvas than it does in Blackboard. Students will easily learn to navigate your course when you thoughtfully design how your content is presented.

Clara Noomah
May 10, 2021

Inclusive Practice, Teaching Tips

Creating a learner-centered syllabus

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Research shows that a learner-centered syllabus increases positive student perception of the course and instructor, and generally leads to better learning outcomes. Here are specific ways you can update your syllabus to be more learner-centered.

UAF CTL Staff
May 3, 2021

Teaching Tips, Tools and how to (tips)

Tips for students using the new WordPress block editor

On May 7, 2021, the Community@UAF WordPress server will be updated to the Gutenberg editor. Here is information to share with students on using the new editor.

Christen Booth
April 26, 2021

Emerging ideas, Teaching Tips

Courses on AlaskaX reach across the globe

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UAF instructors are reaching a global audience through course offerings on the edX platform. Learn more about developing and delivering AlaskaX courses in this Teaching Tip.

Sean Holland
April 19, 2021