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UF’s Center for Teaching Excellence promotes student success through transformative learning environments. We invite instructors and graduate students to connect with us, explore innovative strategies, and share best practices that support quality and inclusive teaching for the benefit of all students.
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Interface 2024
The Interface Teaching Conference provides faculty, staff, TAs, GAs, and post-docs with new strategies for great teaching and learning through interactive breakout sessions. The next conference will take place on April 17, 2024 at Emerson Alumni Hall!
Research in Teaching and Learning (RiTL) Symposium
Please join us April 25, 2024 for the second UF RiTL (Research in Teaching and Learning) symposium. Who should attend? All faculty including clinical faculty, instructional faculty, practitioners, faculty considering promotion, department Chairs, as well as staff and librarians interested in teaching focused research..
Podcasts
Check out the Teaching Beyond the Podium Podcast page to view transcripts and learn more about our featured guests!
Upcoming Events
march
18mar12:55 pm2:25 pmSupporting Student Mental Health – Part I
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Supporting Student Mental Health – Part I Monday, March, 18, 2024 at 12:55 – 2:25 PM EDT Instructor(s): Sarah Lynne & Julia Graber ONLINE This workshop
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Supporting Student Mental Health – Part I
Monday, March, 18, 2024 at 12:55 – 2:25 PM EDT
Instructor(s): Sarah Lynne & Julia Graber
ONLINE
This workshop aims to augment the resources and skills available to faculty and staff to provide appropriate support for students experiencing or at risk of experiencing a mental health crisis. This workshop supports faculty and staff’s ability to recognize signs of distress in students and refer to the appropriate services. By completing this workshop, faculty and staff will increase their ability to:
- Identify resources for faculty/staff to support their own mental health
- Explain the mental health challenges students experience
- Assess and address the needs of a struggling student
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(Monday) 12:55 pm - 2:25 pm(GMT-04:00)
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TEACHING SPARKS SERIES: Helping Student Develop Understanding: Questioning, Note-Taking, and Interactive Learning
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TEACHING SPARKS SERIES: Helping Student Develop Understanding: Questioning, Note-Taking, and Interactive Learning
3/19/2024 | 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Instructor: Jennifer Parker
ONLINE
Move beyond the lecture to an interactive experience for students to engage in the learning. This session will dig into the importance of cues, questions, and advance organizers. Explore summarizing and note-taking strategies like hyperdocs, markup tools, and templates to improve retention and improve options for students to follow along with the lesson. Let’s talk about how we can Improve engagement with these interactive activities during your lessons. Sharing ideas, resources, and best practices across the session will be encouraged and promoted. Part of the Teaching Sparks Webinar Series.
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(Tuesday) 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
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Getting Started with AI In Teaching and Learning: Presentations and Visual Imagery 3/22/2024 | 10:40 AM – 12:10 PM Instructors: Jennifer Parker and Michael Barber ONLINE
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Getting Started with AI In Teaching and Learning: Presentations and Visual Imagery
3/22/2024 | 10:40 AM – 12:10 PM
Instructors: Jennifer Parker and Michael Barber
ONLINE
Channel your creative and innovative energy for this session where we go deep into the power of generative AI for the purposes of creating presentations and visually appealing artifacts. From image generators to infographics to presentation builders, AI can help us build a visually appealing representation of our thoughts and ideas. Consider the AI tools available to make work more visually appealing, transform non-linguistic representations, and scale up teaching and learning. Explore ideas for embedding AI generated presentations and imagery into your professional practice. Part of the Getting Started with AI in Teaching & Learning series. Part 3 of a 4-part series.
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(Friday) 10:40 pm - 12:10 pm(GMT-04:00)
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TEACHING SPARKS SERIES: Helping Students Extend and Apply Learning: Leveling Up with Critical, Computational, and Design Thinking 3/26/2024 | 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Instructor: Jennifer Parker
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TEACHING SPARKS SERIES: Helping Students Extend and Apply Learning: Leveling Up with Critical, Computational, and Design Thinking
3/26/2024 | 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Instructor: Jennifer Parker
ONLINE
With over half of our students already actively using AI, how can we scale up our summative assessments to integrate higher level thinking? This session will explore a variety of examples of leveling up lessons and activities to embed critical thinking. See examples of scaffolding the learning activities beyond the Knowledge level of Bloom’s to a higher level of creativity and innovation reminiscent of Design Thinking frameworks. No matter the content or subject, see how to scale up activities to help students use problem solving along the mindset of Computational Thinking. Sharing ideas, resources, and best practices across the session will be encouraged and promoted. Part of the Teaching Sparks Webinar Series.
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(Tuesday) 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
28mar1:00 pm2:00 pm“How I Got There: The Scholarly Path to Language and the Rise of the Algorithm”
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Dr. Jeffrey Binder, Senior Data Scientist, Open Raven, and Visting Instructor, New York University
Thurs., 28 March, 1 pm, Location TBA
Dr. Binder has a Phd in English from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Language and the Rise of the Algorithm (U. of Chicago Press, November 2022), a wide-ranging study of the history of algorithmic thinking from the sixteenth century to the present. He is the creator of The Coleridge Bot, a rhymed poetry generator, and A Hundred Visions and Revisions, a program that uses a neural language model to rewrite a poem to be about a different topic.
Event contact: Zea Miller, zea.miller@ufl.edu
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(Thursday) 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
april
01apr12:55 pm2:25 pmSupporting Student Mental Health – Part II
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Supporting Student Mental Health – Part II Monday, April, 1, 2024 at 12:55 – 2:25 PM EDT Instructor(s): Gloria Grady & Sarah Lynne Online Building on
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Supporting Student Mental Health – Part II
Monday, April, 1, 2024 at 12:55 – 2:25 PM EDT
Instructor(s): Gloria Grady & Sarah Lynne
Online
Building on the content of Part I, Part II of this workshop series provides faculty and staff time to discuss the current challenges they are facing when supporting their students’ mental health with their peers and mental health experts.
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(Monday) 12:55 pm - 2:25 pm(GMT-04:00)
02apr11:45 pm12:45 pmCreating Global Classrooms Through Virtual Exchange
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Creating Global Classrooms Through Virtual Exchange 4/2/2024 | 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM Instructors: Carrie Martins and Luis Mejia-Puig ONLINE Join this workshop to discover how
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Creating Global Classrooms Through Virtual Exchange
4/2/2024 | 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
Instructors: Carrie Martins and Luis Mejia-Puig
ONLINE
Join this workshop to discover how to turn your class into a global classroom. Through virtual exchange, faculty can connect their UF classes with students and faculty abroad to collaborate on assignments, acquire global perspectives on course-related material, and develop intercultural competence skills. In the 2022-2023 academic year, over 800 UF students took courses that incorporated international virtual exchange activities in a variety of disciplines. This workshop will help you discover different types of virtual exchange projects and connect you to trainings and resources to help get you started.
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(Tuesday) 11:45 pm - 12:45 pm(GMT-04:00)
03apr1:00 pm2:00 pmExploring Teaching Careers at Research Universities with CIRTL Alumni
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Exploring Teaching Careers at Research Universities with CIRTL Alumni April 3, 2024 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST Learn about teaching faculty careers in this online panel of CIRTL
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Exploring Teaching Careers at Research Universities with CIRTL Alumni
April 3, 2024 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Learn about teaching faculty careers in this online panel of CIRTL alumni who are now junior faculty at research universities. Register starting January 8. Learn more and register here.
This is a CIRTL workshop. UF joined the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) network as a partner institution. Through CIRTL programming, graduate students and postdocs build skills, prepare for teaching roles, and gain an advantage in their job search. Faculty and institutions also gain benefits from engaging with our international community of STEM and education
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(Wednesday) 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
09apr12:00 pm12:30 pmTEACHING SPARKS SERIES: Scaling Up Your Favorite Teaching Strategies
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TEACHING SPARKS SERIES: Scaling Up Your Favorite Teaching Strategies 4/9/2024 | 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Instructor: Jennifer Parker ONLINE What are your “go to” teaching
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TEACHING SPARKS SERIES: Scaling Up Your Favorite Teaching Strategies
4/9/2024 | 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Instructor: Jennifer Parker
ONLINE
What are your “go to” teaching strategies? Are you a fan of the Gallery Walk? Jigsaw? Exit Ticket? How do they vary from small classroom to large lecture hall? Or from face-to-face to hybrid? In this session, we will talk through some of our favorite strategies and ideas for using them on a small or large scale across a variety of learning modalities. Explore the tools, resources, and templates for taking your teaching to the next level. Sharing ideas, resources, and best practices across the session will be encouraged and promoted. Part of the Teaching Sparks Webinar Series.
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(Tuesday) 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
11apr2:00 pm3:30 pmCIRTL Network Teaching-as-Research Presentations
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CIRTL Network Teaching-as-Research Presentations April 11, 2024 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST Hear graduate students and postdocs from across the CIRTL Network share the results
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CIRTL Network Teaching-as-Research Presentations
April 11, 2024 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST
Hear graduate students and postdocs from across the CIRTL Network share the results of their Teaching-as-Research (TAR) projects in this online presentation session. Register starting January 8. Learn more and register here.
This is a CIRTL workshop. UF joined the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) network as a partner institution. Through CIRTL programming, graduate students and postdocs build skills, prepare for teaching roles, and gain an advantage in their job search. Faculty and institutions also gain benefits from engaging with our international community of STEM and education
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(Thursday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
12apr10:40 am12:10 pmGetting Started with AI In Teaching and Learning: Assessments
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Getting Started with AI In Teaching and Learning: Assessments 4/12/2024 | 10:40 AM – 12:10 PM Instructors: Kimberly Heal and Michael Barber ONLINE Writing
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Getting Started with AI In Teaching and Learning: Assessments
4/12/2024 | 10:40 AM – 12:10 PM
Instructors: Kimberly Heal and Michael Barber
ONLINE
Writing a good test can be a struggle, but with the power of AI – test item generation can take on a new look and feel! From generating test items across a variety of formats to creating responses for student work, the use of AI presents some powerful options. Come explore the various tools and resources that can take a multiple-choice test to the next level. Expand your test bank, your item types, and refine your test items for more clarity – or just speed up and automate the grading process. Learn more about how to use generative AI to make your grading and assessment process more fluid and efficient, without losing that personalized feedback. Part of the Getting Started with AI in Teaching & Learning series. Part 4 of a 4-part series.
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(Friday) 10:40 am - 12:10 pm(GMT-04:00)
18apr11:45 pm12:45 pmEvaluation and Feedback
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Evaluation and Feedback 4/18/2024 | 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM Instructor: Elisa Zenni ONLINE This faculty development session will provide participants with an opportunity to explore
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Evaluation and Feedback
4/18/2024 | 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
Instructor: Elisa Zenni
ONLINE
This faculty development session will provide participants with an opportunity to explore best practices for evaluating learners and giving effective feedback in the clinical learning environment. Ample time for discussion will be integrated into the didactic presentation. Participants are encouraged to come with questions and to share their experiences.
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(Thursday) 11:45 pm - 12:45 pm(GMT-04:00)
19apr9:35 pm10:35 pmCreating Global Classrooms Through Virtual Exchange
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Creating Global Classrooms Through Virtual Exchange 4/19/2024 | 9:35 AM – 10:35 AM Instructors: Carrie Martins and Sherrie Nunn ONLINE Join this workshop to discover how
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Creating Global Classrooms Through Virtual Exchange
4/19/2024 | 9:35 AM – 10:35 AM
Instructors: Carrie Martins and Sherrie Nunn
ONLINE
Join this workshop to discover how to turn your class into a global classroom. Through virtual exchange, faculty can connect their UF classes with students and faculty abroad to collaborate on assignments, acquire global perspectives on course-related material, and develop intercultural competence skills. In the 2022-2023 academic year, over 800 UF students took courses that incorporated international virtual exchange activities in a variety of disciplines. This workshop will help you discover different types of virtual exchange projects and connect you to trainings and resources to help get you started.
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(Friday) 9:35 pm - 10:35 pm(GMT-04:00)
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TEACHING SPARKS SERIES: Broadening Student Choices for Creative Expression of Knowledge 4/23/2024 | 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Instructor: Jennifer Parker ONLINE Expand student opportunities to
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TEACHING SPARKS SERIES: Broadening Student Choices for Creative Expression of Knowledge
4/23/2024 | 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Instructor: Jennifer Parker
ONLINE
Expand student opportunities to showcase their learning with personalized choices for demonstrating competency. From brainstorming and storyboarding to creating and editing, this session will explore great tools, activities, lessons, and resources for engaging learners with options for mastery. Sharing ideas, resources, and best practices across the session will be encouraged and promoted. Part of the Teaching Sparks Webinar Series.
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(Tuesday) 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm(GMT-04:00)
august
26augAll Day08sepEngaging Online Learners:
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Engaging Online Learners: 8/26/24-9/8/24 Engaging Online Learners uses research-supported studies to examine and model best practice in online course design. Participants will experience the online learning environment from the student perspective while
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Engaging Online Learners:
8/26/24-9/8/24
Engaging Online Learners uses research-supported studies to examine and model best practice in online course design. Participants will experience the online learning environment from the student perspective while working through activities intended to demonstrate mastery of a variety of topics including designing for student success, aligning student learning objectives, and creating engaging and accessible presentations.
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August 26 (Monday) - September 8 (Sunday)(GMT-04:00)
september
26augAll Day08sepEngaging Online Learners:
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Engaging Online Learners: 8/26/24-9/8/24 Engaging Online Learners uses research-supported studies to examine and model best practice in online course design. Participants will experience the online learning environment from the student perspective while
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Engaging Online Learners:
8/26/24-9/8/24
Engaging Online Learners uses research-supported studies to examine and model best practice in online course design. Participants will experience the online learning environment from the student perspective while working through activities intended to demonstrate mastery of a variety of topics including designing for student success, aligning student learning objectives, and creating engaging and accessible presentations.
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August 26 (Monday) - September 8 (Sunday)(GMT-04:00)
09sepAll Day22Creating Student-Centered Assignments:
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Creating Student-Centered Assignments: 9/9/24-9/22/24 Participants will explore ways to develop varied student-centered content while establishing a collaborative learning environment through the use of active learning and feedback. Register for the next offering
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Creating Student-Centered Assignments:
9/9/24-9/22/24
Participants will explore ways to develop varied student-centered content while establishing a collaborative learning environment through the use of active learning and feedback.
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september 9 (Monday) - 22 (Sunday)(GMT-04:00)
23sepAll Day06octAccessible Online Environments:
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Accessible Online Environments: 9/23/24-10/6/24 This workshop lasts two weeks and provides instruction on how to design online courses with accessibility in mind. The course covers different types of accessibility needs and suggestions
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Accessible Online Environments:
9/23/24-10/6/24
This workshop lasts two weeks and provides instruction on how to design online courses with accessibility in mind. The course covers different types of accessibility needs and suggestions for making an online course more accessible. After completing the offering, participants will have a full understanding of how to improve online accessibility for all students.
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September 23 (Monday) - October 6 (Sunday)(GMT-04:00)
october
23sepAll Day06octAccessible Online Environments:
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Accessible Online Environments: 9/23/24-10/6/24 This workshop lasts two weeks and provides instruction on how to design online courses with accessibility in mind. The course covers different types of accessibility needs and suggestions
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Accessible Online Environments:
9/23/24-10/6/24
This workshop lasts two weeks and provides instruction on how to design online courses with accessibility in mind. The course covers different types of accessibility needs and suggestions for making an online course more accessible. After completing the offering, participants will have a full understanding of how to improve online accessibility for all students.
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September 23 (Monday) - October 6 (Sunday)(GMT-04:00)
07octAll Day20Utilizing Active Learning:
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Utilizing Active Learning: 10/7/24-10/20/24 In this instructional development opportunity, participants will explore course design strategies and technology to implement active learning in the virtual classroom. Participants will experience ways to motivate students
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Utilizing Active Learning:
10/7/24-10/20/24
In this instructional development opportunity, participants will explore course design strategies and technology to implement active learning in the virtual classroom. Participants will experience ways to motivate students to succeed through varied peer interactions.
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october 7 (Monday) - 20 (Sunday)(GMT-04:00)
21octAll Day10novUsing Rubrics and Feedback:
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Using Rubrics and Feedback: 10/21/24-11/10/24 In this instructional development opportunity, participants will review best practices of building effective rubrics and providing quality feedback in eLearning. Through varied activities, participants will be equipped
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Using Rubrics and Feedback:
10/21/24-11/10/24
In this instructional development opportunity, participants will review best practices of building effective rubrics and providing quality feedback in eLearning. Through varied activities, participants will be equipped with the skills necessary to implement rubrics to improve student performance.
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October 21 (Monday) - November 10 (Sunday)(GMT-04:00)
november
21octAll Day10novUsing Rubrics and Feedback:
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Using Rubrics and Feedback: 10/21/24-11/10/24 In this instructional development opportunity, participants will review best practices of building effective rubrics and providing quality feedback in eLearning. Through varied activities, participants will be equipped
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Using Rubrics and Feedback:
10/21/24-11/10/24
In this instructional development opportunity, participants will review best practices of building effective rubrics and providing quality feedback in eLearning. Through varied activities, participants will be equipped with the skills necessary to implement rubrics to improve student performance.
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October 21 (Monday) - November 10 (Sunday)(GMT-04:00)
12novAll Day24Interpreting Course Analytics:
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Interpreting Course Analytics: 11/12/24- 11/24/24 Use e-Learning course analytics and quiz statistics to help identify struggling students, enhance assessment reliability and validity, and improve student learning. Participants will interpret various activity graphs,
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Interpreting Course Analytics:
11/12/24- 11/24/24
Use e-Learning course analytics and quiz statistics to help identify struggling students, enhance assessment reliability and validity, and improve student learning. Participants will interpret various activity graphs, evaluate quizzes to make predictions, and prescribe appropriate interventions where needed to improve those outcomes.
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november 12 (Tuesday) - 24 (Sunday)(GMT-05:00)
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