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Emerging ideas (tips), Favorites (tips), Teaching Tips

An Introduction to Open Educational Practices

Open educational practices incorporate Wiley’s 5 Rs of open content - retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute - into ways of teaching that encourage co-creation and sharing amongst learners, teachers, and a community.

UAF eCampus Staff
October 15, 2017

Designer Perspectives, Emerging ideas (tips), Favorites (tips), OEP-OER, Teaching Tips

A Brief Guide to Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) are any type of media that is free and publicly available for educators and students to use, reuse, repurpose, and sometimes modify for educational purposes (1, 2). The idea of OER has been around for a…

Favorites (tips), Teaching Tips, Tools and how to (tips)

Prep your WordPress course site for next semester

Even seasoned WordPress users can learn a new trick. WordPress actively changes as new updates are applied to the main product. Years after I began using WordPress almost daily, a coworker showed me how to edit multiple settings from within one screen! This tip will show you how.

UAF eCampus Staff
August 8, 2017

Emerging ideas (tips), Favorites (tips), Teaching Tips

Instruction beyond the bounds of the semester

Geophysical Institute research professor Jeff Benowitz shows undergraduate Pat Terhune how to use a geologic compass on a rock outcrop near their camp above the Chedotlothna Glacier

Without practice and application, students can rapidly forget course material between academic semesters. Instructors can counter this effect by pointing students to and creating their own, opportunities to engage with subject matter during the breaks.

UAF eCampus Staff
July 13, 2017

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Create dynamic video presentations with Kaltura CaptureSpace

Kaltura CaptureSpace is a screen recording and presentation tool available free to all UA students, staff and faculty. Learn how to use it for your class.

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Collaborative annotation brings context and conversation

Annotating helps a reader engage with, analyze, and comprehend a text. Online, collaborative annotation tools afford these benefits plus the opportunity to interact with peers and other annotators around the world.

UAF eCampus Staff
June 1, 2017

Favorites (tips), Teaching Tips, Tools and how to (tips)

Interface literacy for faculty and students

You probably use hundreds, if not thousands, of gestures, keyboard commands and icons every day to navigate the web, perform various actions on a device and interact with others. Doing this in a skilled way is called interface literacy, and it’s an emerging literacy that faculty not only have to acquire themselves, but also must impart to their students.

UAF eCampus Staff
May 26, 2017

Best practices (tips), Favorites (tips), Teaching Tips

Caption your course videos to benefit everyone

Video captions benefit everyone and make a video more useful as well as accessible. Making your videos accessible with captions meets the needs of all students.

UAF eCampus Staff
May 11, 2017

Best practices (tips), Favorites (tips), Teaching Tips

How to evaluate alignment within your course

Key structural course components should work together to support intended learning outcomes. Considering alignment helps us focus on our designs for student understanding, and spend time looking at how various course elements support those goals.

UAF eCampus Staff
March 9, 2017

Blackboard (tips), Favorites (tips), Teaching Tips

Building accessibility into online Blackboard courses

Blackboard provides built-in mechanisms to ensure online content adheres to accessibility standards for its static structure. Once content or third party elements like multimedia and links to resources are added, there are steps you take to maintain accessibility. As you begin adding course content in Blackboard, be mindful of what the end result may look like using a screen reader.

UAF eCampus Staff
February 13, 2016

Best practices (tips), Favorites (tips), Teaching Tips

Four questions about FERPA

FERPA, Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, addresses education records and a student’s right to those records and to whom else sees them. As an instructor or faculty at UAF, you have a responsibility to adhere to the requirements set out by the Act. By being aware of a few key requirements, you can adhere to the act without too much effort.

UAF eCampus Staff
September 8, 2015

Emerging ideas (tips), Favorites (tips), Teaching Tips, Tools and how to (tips)

3D printing

Have you been thinking about 3D printing something for your classroom, lab, or just for fun but don’t know how to get started? There are a plethora of easy to use and inexpensive online services to help with that! Here are some we have found to help send you on your way to 3D printing bliss.