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Community building activities

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.

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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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Foundations of academic dialogue, Part 2

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.

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Foundations of academic dialogue, Part 1

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.

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Rubrics

This resource describes different kinds of rubrics and considerations for selecting a rubric best aligned with an instructor’s grading practice, assignments, and learning objectives. Examples of rubrics are provided.

Keywords: rubric, assessment, assignment, evaluation, learning objective

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