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Effective Course Design in Brightspace

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.

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Facilitating academic discussions

This resource covers strategies for facilitating academic discussions in a variety of teaching settings, including tips for planning discussions, options for whole and small-group discussion types, considerations for assessing student discussions, and relevant research.

Keywords: discussion, small group discussion, discussion forums, active learning, community agreements, discussion norms, strategic questions, participation.

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A closer look: Information literacy

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.

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