The Top 5 PowerPoint Sins to NOT Commit When Lecturing
It's the start of a new school year and why not start it off trying to groove good habits? Come learn about the top 5 things you DON'T want to do…
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7 Things You Should Know About the HyFlex Course Model
ZoomThe hybrid flexible, or HyFlex, course format is an instructional approach that combines face-to-face (F2F) and online learning. Each class session and learning activity is offered in-person, synchronously online, and…
Academic Integrity focus on… Contract Cheating
ZoomWhat do we mean when we say academic integrity? What do you do in your course to promote it? In this workshop, we will dive into academic integrity with a…
Mayer’s Theory of Multimedia Learning – The 12 Principles
ZoomtNow that courses are taking place mostly on-line, it is even more important to know the theories and evidence about how brains process information from our presentations. The world of…
Three Easy Strategies to Let Your Personality Shine in Your Online Course
With the ability to automate so much of an online course, along with the physical separation from your students, it can be challenging to find ways to let your personality,…
Five Pillars of the Mind: Redesigning Education to Suit the Brain
Come participate in this “reader’s digest book club” session that will summarize the current book and theory by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa and provide starting points for some great conversations regarding teaching…
Canvas Tips & Tricks
This session will cover how two major topics on Canvas: How to set up office hours for students. How to set up question banks in Canvas. Canvas office hours helps…
Instructional Design Chat: Brown Bag at the Lunch Tables
ZoomDid you know that the Instructional Design Team at WesternU TRIPLED since March 2020?! Have you met your college's designated Instructional Designer? We're having a low-key chat about instructional…
Gagné’s 9 Events of Instruction- Online Edition
ZoomIn this session we will review learning theorist Robert Gangé’s “Nine Events of Instruction,” which is a well-known framework for instruction. These nine events are known to work well for lesson planning and for designing learning events. After reviewing Gagné’s framework, we will go a step further and…
Flash to HTML5
December 31, 2020 marks the end of a year and the end of Adobe’s support of Flash. As we enter 2021, Flash will become a software of the past and HTML5 will take its place. This session will…