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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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Looking through a collection of teaching portfolios by her colleagues helped reassure her that she could redesign her course while preserving what worked about the classroom experience. Thanks to that requirement, the Cal State system has built a library that has grown to more than 200 teaching portfolios.

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Using the LMS Effectively to Reduce Logistical Challenges for Students 

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Since the pandemic, which necessitated the use of Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Canvas or Blackboard, there is now an additional component to consider in developing our courses. Instead of thinking about the LMS as simply a repository for course essentials (syllabus, contact information, etc.), across the course.

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?Anticipating and Addressing Challenges With Technology in Developmental Education

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Course management technology organizes and presents course structure and materials on an electronic platform. This includes the provision of electronic access to the course syllabus, reading and viewing materials, assessments, the course calendar, grades, course evaluations, discussion boards, and other important course materials.

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Using the LMS Effectively to Reduce Logistical Challenges for Students 

Faculty Focus

Since the pandemic, which necessitated the use of Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Canvas or Blackboard, there is now an additional component to consider in developing our courses. Instead of thinking about the LMS as simply a repository for course essentials (syllabus, contact information, etc.), across the course.

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Connecting with Online Students

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When we teach, there is an unspoken power differential, and real connections have the potential to change that power dynamic. In addition to having these services available in your syllabus and throughout your course, a warm handoff to connect students with these services will likely build trust. link] Hammond, Z. Benner, G.

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Connecting with Online Students

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When we teach, there is an unspoken power differential, and real connections have the potential to change that power dynamic. In addition to having these services available in your syllabus and throughout your course, a warm handoff to connect students with these services will likely build trust. link] Hammond, Z. Benner, G.

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Afterthoughts

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This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on October 1, 2017. In face-to-face courses, learning is compartmentalized into blocks that meet a prescribed number of times per week across the term or semester. I typically don’t describe the idea in the syllabus. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved.

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