Digital Learning Educational Innovation Across Northwestern

necessary for the study, and every seven days she would repeat the process. “The iPads were a key resource ... resources necessary to complete our questionnaires, like a cellphone or computer with internet access,” said ... onsite.” Along with iPads, the Northwestern Libraries also have many other resources available for ...

would all like to improve our teaching and our courses. However, we’d also like to finish up that one ... able to understand expectations and resources. Canvas will even nag students on your behalf with ... courses and is nice because students don’t have to download a hard-to-read pdf when scrolling on their ...

Jason Nargis —were invaluable resources. What do you see as the benefit to humanities instruction as it ... Northwestern University Libraries (NUL) and the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences’ Multimedia Learning ... and philosophies of language from the last two centuries to explore the question, "What if ...

that has been coming up during our move to remote instruction. I’ve been writing a lot of FAQs and ... comfort levels rise: Start thinking about what works and what doesn’t synchronously, and make plans to ... that are useful) For a longer version, read on for my reasoning behind this advice. Faculty ask us ...

were able to work out a lot of the kinks ahead of time.   KELLY: Tell us about the idea.   LINDSAY: What ... hear back what they were saying, and ideally self-correct, and notice their errors. There is this radio ... over the term.   KELLY: What did you decide to have them read?  LINDSAY: We decided to have them ...

an Innovation Lab to be built in a space designed for it, we’re looking forward to learning what ... Active Learning Innovation Lab Innovate with active learning techniques in Library B183 Though it ... may be a challenge to find, Northwestern University Library and Northwestern IT are hoping that their ...

they're going to make." I felt like I need to read the textbooks, but some of the textbooks were also ... a decently specific call. So everybody knew what was expected and so there were no surprises. So when people ... a librarian and member of the Affordable Instructional Resources (AIR) initiative.  March 2 kicks off Open ...

Library. Bervin’s residency will culminate in “Read with the Spine: Experiences & Experiments in ... human experiences and the nature of books and libraries themselves, such as: “What does it mean to ... listen, especially now?” “How is a history made, on the human level?”“What do we keep in our archives and ...

that were published in the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. Each issue includes a searchable index and allows the ... TriQuarterly Archive Available Online Online Archive Provides Amazing Resource Long before the ... were agile enough to launch an online edition in 2010, thus ensuring the continued existence of the ...

You submitted your sheet of what you were going to perform and they would have to make copies for nine ... remember exactly what they were referring to. There also was just the shorthand that was sometimes required ... teachers to know exactly what they were referring to. Donna: So about three years ago what Kurt and I did ...

start to plant the seeds for what that would look like in our interactions in the classroom. DH: Over ... individuals in the conversation were scholars that they had read at some point in the semester, one was ... to deal with race in the U.S. So they read the story they were interested in, plucked one of the ...

what the advertising and marketing policies are on campus. In addition, with our previous in-person ... time.  What types of things are covered in the trainings? How are they set up? JL: Our training courses ... online resource that students can refer to whenever they have questions about campus policies and ...

Pilot Program to save students $179K in first year Open Educational Resources Grants Posted May ... 23, 2019 by  Lauren McKeen The newly launched Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant program was ... of the  Affordable Instructional Resources (AIR) initiative, a multi-departmental effort across ...

shared resources.  Among the challenges of the course were that students arrived with a wide range of ... a learning engineer.  Learning engineers are a great resource for instructors who wish to incorporate more ... review the learning objectives for Poli Sci 210 and make sure the assessments and content were aligned to ...

month we highlight an example of innovative teaching and learning across campus. Our first guest is Dr. ... I should go to this talk. It was a panel discussion of a number of folks who were using social media in ... a broader audience than if they were to try to get the same message out in journal articles. They would ...

features. Many took the opportunity to upgrade early and were pleased to experience the Gradebook’s new look ... want to provide some additional insight into the key enhancements. What's New? Canvas’ new Manual ... Northwestern Canvas Learning Center or read on for more information on the new functions. Manual Grade Posting ...

instructors. Our first entry focuses on Lacuna Stories and NoteAffect.  Instructors: please note that these ... tools were reviewed as part of an initial evaluation and are not currently supported by Northwestern ... IT.  Lacuna Stories lacunastories.jpg What is it? Lacuna Stories is a collaborative annotation platform ...

packets of readings, worksheets, and assignments were mailed to students. By including a variety of ... our team as a way to provide feedback and ensure quality. This blog post will highlight some of the ... small. Where there were once 99 points, there are now 100. The new point–and most of the redistributed ...

were the primary reasons students came to the library," said Diaz. "Faculty would also come ... Textbook Library Each year, the rising cost of a college education puts pressure on students and families ... where to allocate funds. What can an individual faculty member do to help stem the tide of rising costs? ...