On July 13, 2018 Academic Affairs announced a revision to the undergraduate grading system. While this affects everyone, if you use Blackboard, you may wonder how the changes affect grading within the system. We’ll explain how the new schema is translated in Bb courses and your ability to make changes. In case you missed it, […]
Continue reading →At the International Conference for Educational Development in June 2018, Mary-Ann Winkelmes shared a template that can be used as a guide for developing, explaining, and discussing class activities and out-of-class assignments. She shared that “Making these aspects of each course activity or assignment explicitly clear to students has demonstrably enhanced students’ learning in a national […]
Continue reading →By definition, self-efficacy is the belief in one’s own ability to successfully accomplish something (Bandura, 1994). Working with students everyday – critiquing their work, grading their performance, giving professional feedback – how do these everyday events support our students’ self-efficacy? Now, I’m not suggesting that as instructors we swing the pendulum the other way and […]
Continue reading →The LIT Advisory Committee has been reviewing two products: Atomic and Lynda, two of our online learning platforms that provide on-demand video courses, to determine its volume and usage on campus. Through feedback and data analysis, our research shows that faculty have found Lynda more valuable in their teaching and learning. Moving forward this year, […]
Continue reading →Building a new course? Redesigning an older course? Want to align program and course goals to assessments and teaching strategies?Use proven methods to increase engagement and student outcomes by attending the 3-day Course Development Summer Institute in June 2018. LIT will customize the 3-day schedule based on your schedule. Seats are limited so email lit@wit.edu to enroll. […]
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