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Using the LMS Effectively to Reduce Logistical Challenges for Students 

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Textbooks and course materials to review, syllabi to update, lessons to plan, lectures to prepare. 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. across the course. Melissa Samaniego, Ed.D.

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Using the LMS Effectively to Reduce Logistical Challenges for Students 

Faculty Focus

Textbooks and course materials to review, syllabi to update, lessons to plan, lectures to prepare. 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. across the course. Melissa Samaniego, Ed.D.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

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Then we also have continued our webinars series with our Center for Faculty Development and Innovation. So instead of having a three-hour class, we've tried to break our lectures down into 10 minutes, followed by an interactive short activity. And the activity is just a content check. It's, “Did you miss the video?

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Pushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their Use

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Is a ‘desk scan’ necessary for a syllabus quiz? That sentiment was taken further this week in a Twitter thread by Jesse Stommel, a senior lecturer in communications and digital studies at the University of Mary Washington and co-founder of the Digital Pedagogy Lab. “If 2) how many faculty or staff have been furloughed or fired?

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On the First Day of Class, Begin with Intrigue

Faculty Focus

We begin not with the syllabus, not with the table of contents, not with the attendance policy, not with lame jokes but with the real questions that delight us in our own work. I know, I know, there are a whole slew of objections we can raise against this approach: I can’t do this in a big lecture. Cover the syllabus later.

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On the First Day of Class, Begin with Intrigue

Faculty Focus

We begin not with the syllabus, not with the table of contents, not with the attendance policy, not with lame jokes but with the real questions that delight us in our own work. I know, I know, there are a whole slew of objections we can raise against this approach: I can’t do this in a big lecture. Cover the syllabus later.

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Rethinking the First Two Years of Higher Education

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I would get rid of all lecture halls that are beyond 40 people. I was literally handed a syllabus the week before I taught, and no one in five years ever saw me teach a class. Your model is small, not some project that hopes for mass scale through technology. There's nothing wrong with the actual teaching by an adjunct.

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