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Monday, October 10, 2016

Bringing culture into the classroom: Spotlight on Rodney Nelson

By Cassandra Hendry, TLS Staff Writer There are few higher education courses that equally blend the academic side of learning with a strong foundation in a culture’s traditions, but Carleton’s Rodney Nelson is fortunate enough to oversee one of them. Nelson, who works with the university’s Centre for Initiatives in Education, is one of... More

Friday, October 7, 2016

Take advantage of midterm feedback evaluations

The EDC encourages faculty and instructors to take advantage of midterm feedback evaluations - a confidential and voluntary opportunity to get student feedback. Getting midterm feedback allows you to make meaningful changes to a course while it is still in progress. You can use the evaluations as a way to begin dialogue with students... More

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Educational research and innovation grants call for proposals

Recently, eCampusOntario announced the availability of $1.5 million dollars over two years to support research and innovation related to online and technology-enabled learning within six theme areas: Pedagogical Approaches Quality and Evaluation Business Models, Resources, Costs, Faculty Support Openness Connecting Sector Priorities Accessibility... More

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Welcome to the Matrix: Creating Rubrics and Providing Feedback in cuLearn

One of the toughest jobs professors have is clearly communicating assignment expectations to students. If miscommunication happens here, students can be left frustrated and angry when their mark and the professor’s feedback do not add up to their own expectations, which can be very different than that of the professor. Rubrics are useful tools... More

Monday, October 3, 2016

A foray into flipped classrooms: Spotlight on new faculty member Shannon Butler

By Cassandra Hendry, TLS staff writer For Shannon Butler, a professor with Carleton’s Sprott School of Business, teaching at a new university meant a big change. And it truly was a change: Butler went from teaching upper-year classes of 45 students to first-year courses with more than 100 students each. “There are definitely challenges... More

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Discover how to foster active engagement in Carleton’s new “high-tech” Active Learning Classrooms

Join us on Oct. 14 in room 213 Tory Building (Carleton’s new “high-tech” Active Learning Classroom) for a workshop that will let you experience this new learning environment from a student perspective and get fresh ideas about activities you can now organize in a live class. Ideal for encouraging workgroups to research, collaborate and... More

Monday, September 26, 2016

Fixed! Update on the cuLearn upgrade

We are pleased to share that the three significant issues that were identified in the cuLearn upgrade from Moodle version 2.8.7 to version 3.1.1 have been fixed. On September 21, we indicated that these three issues were: Grading assignments - slow page loads: When an instructor attempted to open a student assignment from the gradebook,... More

Monday, September 26, 2016

Trigger warnings in class: Helpful or harmful?

By Emma Brown, TLS staff writer “I’m going to play a 911 call for you,” he said. The police officer stood at the front of the class, delivering his guest lecture for a criminal psychology class. “Someone’s breaking in,” a young woman’s frantic voice echoed through the class. “They’re coming…they’re coming.” The professor,... More

Friday, September 23, 2016

Carleton at STLHE and back

Earlier this year, several members of the Carleton community presented at the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) Annual Conference. If you didn’t get the chance to attend, you’re in luck! In an effort to bring some of the STLHE experience back home, a few presenters from Carleton will be offering... More

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Update on the cuLearn upgrade

On September 3, the EDC and CCS updated cuLearn from Moodle version 2.8.7 to version 3.1.1. cuLearn is powered by Moodle, the most popular and powerful open source Learning Management System in the world. These annual upgrades help keep our cuLearn system current so that we are able to obtain support from the Moodle... More

Monday, September 19, 2016

Bringing history off the page: Spotlight on David Dean

By Cassandra Hendry, TLS staff writer As David Dean watches, a student leaps across his classroom, dancing a story with a flourish. Another student sets up their documentary film to play, while another prepares for their one-person play. If you guessed that Dean is a performing arts professor, you wouldn’t be far off the... More

Friday, September 16, 2016

Welcome to My Classroom: Teaching Writing by Teaching Reading

Students in FASS and FPA are evaluated on their writing, but very few of them arrive at Carleton knowing how to write a basic essay. At best they turn in five-paragraph essays and at worst their efforts are incoherent. To remedy this situation, Prof. Gregory MacIsaac has designed HUMS 1200 – Humanities and Classical... More

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