Fostering Fun: Engaging Students with Asynchronous Online Learning
June 17, 2020 Lisa K. Forbes, PhD Today, faculty are being asked to abruptly expand their teaching practices in ways many of us would never have imagined. For many, teaching online is something they’ve never done and for some, it’s something they never desired to do. I have some experience with digital pedagogy but for…
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Handing Students the Mic: Podcasting to Increase Engagement
Mike Yakubovsky Published in ASCD Express A recent LinkedIn study identified the top 10 skills employers are currently looking for in their interns and new hires (Hess, 2019). I looked through it all, and nowhere was there a reference to test-taking ability. What was at the top of the list were soft skills like collaboration, time management,…
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12 Key Ideas: an Introduction to Teaching Online
Dave Cormier and Ashlyne O’Neil Free E-book This book is meant to be a short course to help you prepare to move your teaching online. Do a chapter a day. Or just pick the ones you like. Reframing the “problem” of teaching online The impact of information abundance on teaching and learning Complicated vs….
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Successfully Taking Offline Classes Online
From a Special Issue of Educational Leadership titled A New Reality: Getting Remote Learning Right Catlin R. Tucker The keys are prioritizing community and designing student-centered lessons. Teachers who have taught exclusively offline in a traditional school setting may find the transition to teaching online daunting and foreign. As educators navigate this new…
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New Resource for Dawson Faculty: Teaching with Moodle!
A new resource is available to faculty. It is an asynchronous, self-paced online course called “Teaching with Moodle”, which has been developed by Madeleine Bazerghi (Pedagogical Counsellor, OAD). Moodle allows teachers to: • upload files such as narrated PowerPoints, videos, jpegs, word, excel, pdfs; • use the Chat and Forum features in order to communicate with students,…
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How to Be a Better Online Teacher – Advice Guide
From The Chronicle of Higher Education Whether you’ve taught online a lot or a little, chances are you didn’t enjoy it as much as teaching in person. Maybe you didn’t experience that fizz after a particularly invigorating face-to-face class. Indeed, according to a 2017 Educause survey, only 9 percent of academics prefer to teach “in a…
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Teaching Online Will Make You a Better Teacher in Any Setting
From The Chronicle of Higher Education By Kevin Gannon When I first began teaching online courses, I did so with a fair amount of uncertainty and trepidation. Could I replicate in a digital environment what I believed was essential for an in-person course? What I learned, however, was that I didn’t need to replicate my face-to-face…
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Yann Brouillette and Carmen Leung in ProfWeb Podcast!
From Profweb, April 27, 2020 A number of technologies have facilitated the transition to alternative methods of teaching. In recent years, these tools have become more user-friendly and accessible to teachers, who are using them to support a blended or fully on-line approach within their teaching practice. Yann Brouillette and Carmen Leung are 2 such teachers from Dawson…
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A Reflection on the Sudden Transition: Ideas to Make Your Synchronous Online Classes More Fun
From: Faculty Focus April 29, 2020 Article by: Siva priya Santhanam, Ph.D. The transition to online teaching has been partially, if not completely, challenging for faculty teaching in colleges and universities. I am writing this article while reflecting on my own experiences since March 16, 2020, when our university made the decision to move to online teaching….
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Dawson Counselling Service for Students
Message for Faculty who need to refer students for Personal Counselling: All applications for distance counselling, as well as any student centered mental health related inquiries, can be sent to Dawson Personal Counselling: DawsonPersonalCounselling@dawsoncollege.qc.ca. The email is monitored from 9:00-5:00 Mon-Friday and will be responded to within 24 hours of reception…
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