The 21st century replacement for pen and paper is finely here – the tablet. University are developing software and teaching methods that take advantage of the tablet PC’s unique capabilities. Tablets in teaching is not new. It’s caught on in the medical professions where doctors use them to take notes and update patient charts. But […]
Continue reading →“There are many challenges in higher education environments, particularly engineering education in a multicultural society. Some of these include the effective communication of difficult mathematical concepts maintaining students’ attention span, the difficulties of catering for individual student needs in a large classroom environment, different paces of student learning, and lack of fluency in written English […]
Continue reading →If you’ve used the support tab in Blackboard in the past you may have noticed that it’s no longer a tab on the right side of the screen but a button at the bottom right corner. New help button: The form of the button isn’t the only thing that’s changed. This summer EesySoft, the company […]
Continue reading →LIT is holding drop-in sessions to assist faculty with using Blackboard to send grades to Banner. As always, we are also happy to answer any other pedagogy, Blackboard or instructional technology related questions, as well as meet with faculty individually and visit any department meetings on request. To get hands-on assistance, visit LIT in one of the drop-in sessions […]
Continue reading →Testing continues on our Blackboard upgrade candidates. It’s beginning to look like the Spring 2017 release is stable and fixes some persistent bugs that occurred in the upgrade in December. Of note, student submission receipts are part of the new version and provide much needed proof of submission success for our students.
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