In this Faculty Showcase on Brightspace from November 2024, Guilan Siassi from Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences shares various multimedia tools and workflow management features on Brightspace to engage and empower students in the learning process.
In this Faculty Showcase on Brightspace from November 2024, Matthew Barrile of Sol Price School of Public Policy shares how Brightspace empowers instructional designers and instructors to create a pedagogically-sound course template. This video showcases the course template developed by the Price School Instructional Design team.
This is the second of a two-part series on academic dialogue and is a collaboration between The Center for Excellence in Teaching; Quade French, USC Dornsife Associate Dean of Academic Culture and Well-being; and Kamy Akhavan, USC Dornsife Executive Director of the Center for the Political Future. This video features Kamy Akhavan discussing what individuals can do to unite conversations.
A workshop co-facilitated by the Center for Excellence in Teaching, the Kortschak Center for Learning and Creativity, and the Office for Student Accessibility Services, introducing strategies to support Teaching Assistants in their role and enhance their experience as a graduate student learner.
This is the first in a two-part series on academic dialogue and is a collaboration between The Center for Excellence in Teaching; Quade French, USC Dornsife Associate Dean of Academic Culture and Well-being; and, Kamy Akhavan, USC Dornsife Executive Director of the Center for the Political Future. This video features Quade French discussing how to establish the foundations of academic dialogue.
At the March 2024 “A Closer Look” CET workshop on information literacy in courses, USC librarians Ariana Varela & Bridgid Fennell, and Dornsife Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures Lori Mesrobian discussed the importance of information literacy across disciplines and strategies for faculty to incorporate more support for these skills with students – including a variety of approaches to instructional collaboration with USC librarians.
Bobby Borg of the USC Thornton School of Music discusses how student teams can use fictional artist personas to collaboratively create innovative music marketing strategies during the February 2024 Faculty Showcase.
Tara Mastro of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology discusses utilizing the power of group learning where student groups design a pitch for a public awareness campaign during the February 2024 Faculty Showcase.
Leonardo Morsut of the USC Keck School of Medicine discusses a strategy to structure group assignments for in-class activities using collaborative tools during the February 2024 Faculty Showcase.
During the February 2024 Faculty Showcase, Helen Choi of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering discusses a group assignment strategy where students work in small groups to improve Wikipedia articles in engineering or science and how this collaborative structure encourages good digital citizenship.
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