What is plagiarism? Plagiarism is the “submission or inclusion of someone else’s words, drawings, ideas, or data (including that from a website) as one’s own work without giving credit to the source” (see 2016-2017 Academic Catalog: Academic Honesty Policy). One common example of plagiarism in student papers is copying and pasting text from the Internet […]
Continue reading →48.9 million Americans are living with disabilities (ICI, n.d.), which include but are not limited to mobility issues, visual or auditory impairment and different levels of cognitive ability. The law mandates that places of public accommodation are made accessible to people with disabilities (Johnson, 2009). Classrooms in higher education (both traditional and online) are considered […]
Continue reading →Students “thrive in environments that allow them to experience and interact with the curriculum, to take part in their own learning and to relate what is learned to experience” (Dewey, 1916 as cited in Crumly, 2014, p. 7). Active learning – a student centered approach that incorporates multiple ways to learn and to demonstrate knowledge, […]
Continue reading →Did you know that you can embed a live twitter feed in your Blackboard course? This extends Blackboard functionality to include live chat and could be used for backchannel discussions in face to face classes or to encourage participation and collaboration after hours or in the online classroom. What is Twitter? Twitter is a social […]
Continue reading →LIT is looking for faculty and staff members to try our newly implemented Kaltura Building Block for Blackboard in the Fall 2016 and Spring 2016 semesters. The goal of this pilot is to assess user experience with this tool prior to wider implementation as well as to compare it to other tools currently in use. […]
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