Canvas Transition
TCUS is transition to the Canvas learning management system. Read more about this transition and the faculty resources that are being provided.
This Week's Featured Article
CILT Teaching Tips
Dear Colleagues, From the Chronicle of Higher Education is a 3-minute video – https://www.chronicle.com/article/3-Tips-for-the-Minutes-Before/244357 – entitled “Three Minutes Before Class.” Take a few minutes to watch this video and glean some excellent ideas for improving your teaching. Questions or comments? Jim O’Connor Ph.D. Director
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CILT Teaching Tips
Dear Colleagues, From the Chronicle of Higher Education is a 3-minute video – https://www.chronicle.com/article/3-Tips-for-the-Minutes-Before/244357 – entitled “Three Minutes Before Class.” Take a few minutes to watch this video and glean some excellent ideas for improving your teaching. Questions or comments? Jim O’Connor Ph.D. Director
Canvas Tech Tip of the Week! Peer Review
Canvas has a Peer Review tool that is great for individual assignments such as a written paper where you would like other students to critique the assignment. You can also use the Peer Review for group assignments by clicking on the box “Allow intra-group peer reviews”. Peer reviews can be manually assigned or automatically assigned […]
An Interesting Use of Canvas – TP Msg. #1672 Making Online Ed Personal
The Tomorrow’s Professor eNewsletter is a weekly faculty development e-mail provided by the Office of the Vice Provost of Teaching and Learning at Stanford University. It covers issues ranging from assessment to instructional design to various pedagogical topics to issues of research. In this issue, Carolyn Gentle-Genitty – an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Indiana University – discusses […]
A Technique For Increasing Deeper Learning And Higher Order Thinking: “Today I Learned”
Dear Colleagues, “The research on how people learn continues to show the value in helping students make meaning and learn through reflection. The process of reflection helps students take a step back to carefully consider that they learned, absorb the information, and process what it means to them. Fortunately, fostering reflection in the classroom can […]
Creating A Syllabus
Dear Colleagues, The Chronicle of Higher Education has published an excellent guide to creating effective course syllabi. https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/advice-syllabus As you transition to Canvas, take the time to upgrade your syllabus using some of these ideas. Let us know how we can assist you. Comments? Questions? Jim O’Connor Director
Additional Canvas Training
I wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of the fact that the TCUS Canvas Team have added more Canvas training session to their Canvas training calendar. To see the training topics and when these sessions are offered, go to the main Touro Canvas website at https://www.touro.edu/canvas and click on the TRAINING CALENDAR button (the direct […]