In this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Jane Lah and Neha Rao, USC Libraries, provide an overview of a student-facing mini-course, “AI: Mindful Applications,” designed to provide undergraduate students with a self-paced tutorial on informed and ethical use of generative AI in writing and research. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence
This resource provides guidance for incorporating community building activities into a course to foster belonging, increase engagement, and build collaboration and communication skills. It includes strategies and considerations for using community building activities as well as sample activities categorized by purpose. Keywords: community building, icebreakers, belonging, inclusion, collaboration, group work.
In this Faculty Showcase on Brightspace from November 2024, Julianna Kirschner discusses setting up Brightspace group assignments and discusses the managing evaluators tool for grading in classes with TAs.
In this Faculty Showcase on Brightspace from November 2024 Jennifer Bankard compares and assesses the effectiveness of Brightspace quizzes versus assignments regarding open-ended homework questions or projects.
In this Faculty Showcase on Brightspace from November 2024, Jody Tolan of Marshall School of Business discusses lessons learned in administering Brightspace exams and identifying student readiness for Respondus.
In this Faculty Showcase on Brightspace from November 2024, Rita Barakat from Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences demonstrates how to integrate Google Suite to organize one’s course and engage students in the learning process by sharing resources and communicating effectively.
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 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.
This resource provides strategies on active learning for a variety of teaching settings, including tips for implementation, sample activity descriptions, options for planning active learning, and relevant research.
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