For Blackboard users, you may have noticed that the “Create File” is missing from the Create Content menu. As part of the Bettering Learner Engagement Study (BLES) we discovered that the number of files posted to a course had a negative impact on student course performance, especially for students in the lower half of the […]
Continue reading →Jim Lang shared small, powerful changes you can make in your teaching that are grounded in learning sciences during a lunch and workshop (in person and virtual) on November 16th at Wentworth. Access a recording of the “Small Teaching Workshop” and take a brief feedback survey to share your feedback and ideas for future topics and […]
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 →Learning Innovation & Technology in collaboration with the Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons and College of Professional and Continuing Education is pleased to announce the soft launch of the Wentworth Institute of Technology’s MediaSpace Video Portal. The portal is part of an ambitious goal to unite the video needs of faculty and students […]
Continue reading →Course Development at Wentworth Institute LIT successfully launched it’s first Course Development at Wentworth Institute June 6th-8th, 2017! Eleven faculty and staff journeyed through an intensive hands-on process to create a course map using a backward course design model that aligns objectives with assessments tools, assignments, and course delivery methods. Charlie Wiseman, co-chair of the Institute Curriculum […]
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