Curation
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Curation Collecting, filtering, connecting, and sharing the information you find What is It? Curation is the process of finding, collecting,...Screencasting for Instruction and Feedback
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Screencasting for Instruction and Feedback Using video and audio to show, not tell What is Screencasting? Screencasting is the process of creating...Audio and Podcasting
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Audio & Podcasting Make your voice heard. What are Audio Recordings & Podcasting? Audio recordings and audio podcasts are forms of audio...Welcome Letters and Announcements
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Welcome Letters and Announcements Getting off to a good start. What is It? Welcoming a new student in your class is one of the best ways to...Time Management
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Time Management Be efficient and productive in and out of the classroom. What is It? We ask students to “Stay on Track.” How do you...FERPA: Things You Should Know Before Students Go Public
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary FERPA The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act What is FERPA? The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) [full text of Title...Embedding: Connecting the Pieces
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Embedding: Connecting the Pieces Consolidate and contextualize your online content. What is It? Embedding is a way of nesting live content from...Creative Commons
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Creative Commons Create and share deliberately. What is It? Creative Commons is a type of license that allows content creators to deliberately and...Blackboard Gradebook
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Blackboard Grade Center The place to manage grades in a Blackboard course. What is the Blackboard Grade Center? The Grade Center in...Collaborative Documents
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Collaborative Documents Building community while engaging learners What are Collaborative Documents? Collaborative documents are built by and...Immersive Roleplay
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Immersive Roleplay An activity where students apply background knowledge of subjects and personas to act out the roles of professionals or...Crafting Video for Instruction
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Crafting Video for Instruction & Feedback Solidify understanding and increase your presence What is It? Video is a medium that allows you to...Backwards Design
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Backward Design Establish alignment throughout course development stages What is Backward Design? Backward Design is a framework for curriculum...Alignment
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Alignment Structural relationships within your design What is It? Alignment is the idea of “critical course elements working together to...Good Instructions
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Good Instructions Communicate clearly with students Good instructions are effective instructions. They are easy to understand and succinct, but...First Contact Assignment
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary First Contact Assignment The first eCampus lesson module should include an introductory exercise that establishes the communication between the...Presentation and Participation: Facilitating Community
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Presentation and Participation Facilitating Community What are Presentation & Participation? Presentation and participation are part of the...Learning Taxonomies
Dig into Learning Taxonomies to assist you with detailing to yourself and your students what you would like the student to gain by exposure to and use of your course materials. By carefully creating assignments that follow the six facets or make use of Fink’s Significant Learning taxonomy you may more clearly and easily define the boundaries of the understanding of and knowledge acquisition by your students.
Personal Learning Environments
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Personal Learning Environments An organizational and practice based concept for evaluating and improving the way individuals learn. After the...Open Education
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Open Education Open education is more than MOOCs. What is It? The essence of education is about freely sharing knowledge but often this idea...Facilitating Critical Thinking
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Facilitating Critical Thinking A crucial part of any education. What is It? Deconstructing our own understandings of the subjects we teach can...Failure, Feedback, and Revision
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Failure, Feedback, and Revision A necessary cycle for learning What is It? Failure is a process, one that students and teachers go through...Essential Questions
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Essential Questions Engines of inquiry What are Essential Questions? Wiggins and McTighe identify big ideas, essential questions and enduring...Assessment
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Assessment What are you measuring and why? What is Assessment? Assessment is the measurement of student understanding. Sounds deceptively simple,...Big Ideas: Keeping the Expert at the Center
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Big Ideas The ideas that drive you and your course What is it? Big ideas are concepts, debates, or theories that are at the core of a discipline...Measurable Learning Objectives
Pedagogy Resources The eCampus collection dedicated to thoughtful teaching practice All Pedagogy TopicsReference Glossary Learning Objectives How can you articulate effective learning outcomes and objectives for your students? Course-level learning objectives (or...Teaching language online offers unique opportunities
A well designed and delivered course in any subject area can benefit from a focus on interaction and student contribution. Foreign language courses can be successfully taught online, as well as make more effective use of a teacher’s valuable time. Avoid the managerial teacher-talk of the face-to-face classroom and find more time for students to produce language and engage in one-on-one discussion with the instructor.