Welcome to the blog of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and Online Education at Georgia State University. We hope that on these pages you can start your exploration in teaching in a digital age. We also hope that your next step in that process is to call or come by our space so that we can be a part of your exploration.
Learning Technology Updates for July 2024
This month, we're excited to share several important updates to enhance your teaching experience with our learning technologies. New features include: Automatic Zero for Missing Submissions End of Life SMS messaging for iCollege notifications Updates to the Slim...
iCollege Course Access and Enrollment Updates – Fall 2024
Exciting changes are coming to iCollege course access and enrollments starting Fall 2024. These updates aim to streamline student access and enhance course management for faculty, addressing common issues and aligning with FERPA standards. Key improvements include the...
Learning Technology Updates for May 2024
May 2024's updates bring several exciting changes and important notices for our learning technologies. We’ve introduced a new feature that allows students to view grade item feedback attachments directly from the gradebook, we’re rolling out a major update to...
Perusall: New Optional Student Cost Settings
Starting Summer semester 2024 Perusall added an extra step to course setup in which instructors are asked to support Perusall through one of these three methods: Purchase an institutional license Adopt a textbook from the Perusall catalog Require the students to pay...
Summer 2024 Vevox Student Response Pilot
Join CETLOE as we offer a FREE pilot of the Vevox Polling and Class Engagement tool. With Vevox, instructors can create real-time polling and word clouds, conduct interactive quizzing, and allow for anonymous Q&A, and more! Vevox is fully integrated into...
Learning Technology Updates for March 2024
Welcome to the March 2024 learning technology updates! This month, we're thrilled to introduce two key enhancements: an updated process for generating quiz reports and an improved link creation dialogue box, allowing you to select how links open. See below for...
Learning Technology Updates for December 2023
As we bid farewell to 2023, we are thrilled to unveil the final learning technology updates of the year! Many of our publisher integrations receive an upgrade, ensuring seamless compatibility and improved functionality. The Kaltura Player undergoes a transformative...
Data Analysis with ChatGPT
Do you work with data? Would your students benefit from being able to use advanced statistics to analyze real-world datasets? If so, ChatGPT Plus might be able to help. In short, ChatGPT’s Advanced Data Analysis mode accepts file uploads and runs Python to manipulate...
iCollege Integration Upgrades
We are pleased to announce important updates to your iCollege experience--aimed at elevating privacy, enhancing security, and improving functionality. Beginning Spring 2024, the following external learning tools will be upgraded to LTI 1.3: Cengage McGraw-Hill...
Shaping How Students Interact with Generative AI Chatbots
Better than a Google search or a direct question for a chatbot, thoughtful prompting can enable one-on-one interactions customized to an individual’s needs and imbued with pedagogical best practices. To see how this is done, we’ll first look at a prompt that will turn...
Consistency is Key: User Experience of Course Interface Elements Across an Online Program
Think about the last time you interacted with technology and couldn’t do what you set out to do. Maybe you wanted to try out a new recipe, but you had to watch a video before you could view the ingredient list. Or perhaps you couldn’t find your favorite TV show after...
Transforming the Case Study: The Impact of Narrative and Graphic Design
Case studies can be dense with information, and there is often little attention given to the narrative or graphic design. Is it possible for a case study to be something more? Is it possible to make a case study that’s not only visually appealing but impactful and...
iCollege Quiz Timing Improvements
Streamlined Quiz Timing and Setups As instructors, we know that creating quizzes and managing assessments can be time-consuming and sometimes complicated. However, with the latest updates to iCollege Quiz Timing and Setup, we are thrilled to introduce a more efficient...
Welcome to Design Notes
Welcome to Design Notes! We’ll be using this space to highlight work and insights stemming from partnerships between faculty and CETLOE’s Learning Design team. These highlights will include program and course design work, engaging multimedia, research from our user...
Learning Technology Updates for April 2023
We're excited to announce multiple updates coming to iCollege to close out the Spring 2023 Semester! These include a completely redesigned iCollege homepage, based on student and instructor feedback, a new discussion creation and editing experience, and the ability to...
Learning Technology Updates for February 2023
iCollege quizzes have a couple of updates for February 2023 including new paging options and the ability to show quiz availability dates on your course calendar. See below for details and release dates, and please get in touch with help@gsu.edu if you encounter any...
Social Skills: Teaching the Way You Love to Teach
What teaching work do you love the most and how can you do more of it? In this blog post, we’ll see how one GSU professor revised her online course to bring more of herself and her fellow experts into their learning community. Working with CETLOE, Dr. Deirdre Oakley...
Learning Technology Updates for January 2023
We only have one update coming to iCollege to start off 2023, and it's a change to the way incomplete rubric evaluations are saved to prevent incomplete evaluations from being released to students . See below for details and release dates, and please get in touch with...
Learning Technology Updates for December 2022
We have several new updates to iCollege, and Webex this month including the ability to associate College to Career competencies with your course activities, and a new availability date model for assignments. See below for details and release dates, and please get in...
Learning Technology Updates for November 2022
We have several new updates to iCollege, Pulse, and Webex this month, including the ability to edit the text in assessed rubrics, and an infinite canvas whiteboard in Webex meetings. See below for details and release dates, and please get in touch with...
Learning Technology Updates for October 2022
We have several new updates to iCollege, Pulse, and Webex this month, including a new design and layout for iCollege Quiz Creation and Editing that's available to opt into. See below for details and release dates, and please contact help@gsu.edu if you encounter...
Learning Technology Updates for September 2022
We have several new updates to iCollege, Pulse, and Webex this month. See below for details, and please contact help@gsu.edu if you encounter any problems or have questions. iCollege [learn_more caption="View Section and Group Enrollment from the...
Learning Technology Updates for August 2022
We have several new updates to iCollege and Webex this month. See below for details, and please contact help@gsu.edu if you encounter any problems or have questions. iCollege - Available August 26th We...
PAWS Enrollments and iCollege
Near Real Time Integration We are excited to announce a “near real-time” enrollment process in iCollege! Beginning Fall Semester 2022, iCollege enrollments will update multiple times a day, 7 days a week between 7:00 AM and 9:00 PM. Any changes to instructor...
Learning Technology Updates for July 2022
We have several new updates to iCollege, Turnitin, and VoiceThread that are available now! See below for details, and please contact help@gsu.edu if you encounter any problems or have questions. iCollege The...
Learning Technology Updates for June 2022
We have several new updates to iCollege, Webex, Slido, and VoiceThread that are available now! See below for details, and please contact help@gsu.edu if you encounter any problems or have questions. iCollege [learn_more caption="Assignments - Copy...
Learning Technology Updates for May 2022
We have several new updates to iCollege, Webex, and VoiceThread! Some of these are already available, and others will be available starting Friday, May 27th. See below for details, and please contact help@gsu.edu if you encounter any problems or have questions....
Learning Technology Updates for April 2022
We have several new updates to iCollege, Webex, and Slido! Some of these are already available, and others will be available starting Friday, April 29th. See below for details, and please contact help@gsu.edu if you encounter any problems or have questions....
Learning Technology Updates for March 2022
We have several new updates to iCollege, Webex, and Slido! Some of these are already available, and others will be available starting Friday, March 25th. See below for details, and please contact help@gsu.edu if you encounter any problems or have questions....
Learning Technology Updates for February 2022
We have several new updates to iCollege, Webex, and VoiceThread! Some of these are already available, and others will be available starting Friday, February 25th. See below for details, and please contact help@gsu.edu if you encounter any problems or have...
Learning Technology Updates for December 2021
We have several December learning technology updates to close out 2021 including iCollege, Webex, and VoiceThread! See below for details, and contact help@gsu.edu if you encounter any problems or have any questions. New iCollege Homepage Widgets Available...
Ensuring Transparency in Authentic Assessment Design
Authentic assessment allows faculty to scaffold student learning in a course by tapping into a student’s prior knowledge of a subject and building upon that knowledge through real-world applications of the concepts and theories presented in a course. Beginning in...
Learning Technology Updates for November 2021
This month's iCollege updates will be available on Friday, November 26th! We've also included a review of the tools that have had opt-in/opt-out interface changes this year that will become permanent next month. See below for details, and contact help@gsu.edu if you...
Real World Work in TX8120: Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders
If you work in higher education, you’ve heard about career readiness. But it's not that easy to drop students into real world situations where they’ll put knowledge to work, while also supporting their learning. How Can A Course Immerse Students In the Real World?...
Learning Technology Updates for October 2021
We have several updates to our learning tools for October-. The iCollege updates will be available on Friday, October 29th , and the Webex and VoiceThread updates are available now! See below for details, and contact help@gsu.edu if you encounter any problems or have...
The Digital Career Toolbox Meets the Design Thinking Process
Design Thinking is an interdisciplinary concept where designers bring innovative ideas and products to fruition by “[integrating] the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for success” (IDEO). This human-centered approach is the basis...
Learning Technology Updates for September 2021
We have several updates to our learning tools for September. The iCollege updates will be available on Friday, September 24th, and the Webex updates will be available on Tuesday, September 28th. See below for details, and contact help@gsu.edu if you encounter any...
Learning Technology Updates for August 2021
We have several updates to our learning tools as we head into the Fall 2021 semester. All of these updates are live today unless otherwise noted. Be sure to review our July 2021 updates blog post as well for information on updates to Assignments, Grades, and Quizzes....
iCollege Updates for July 2021
We are happy to share improvements and feature updates coming to iCollege on July 23rd, 2021. See below for details, and contact help@gsu.edu if you encounter any problems or have any questions. [learn_more caption="Assignments – Add categories in the New Assignment...
Accessible Design at the Forefront
Accessible Design at the Forefront How many times have you added content into iCollege only to receive the red Ally icon? On second thought, did you know that the red icon indicates accessibility errors? Of course you did! Well, hopefully, you also know that there are...
Passing the Mic to Students: The Importance of Student Feedback Sessions in the Design Process
We learn a lot about musical artists from their lyrics---their emotions through life experiences and even their struggles navigating life’s turning points. What’s special about so many classic songs is that the artists themselves were involved in the songwriting...
Starting Off on the Right Foot: Building Community in Online Learning
After months of waiting and 2,483 miles of driving across the country, November 2nd was finally here. I was about to start a new job during a pandemic. Waiting to join my first Webex meeting at GSU, I took deep breaths and nervously sipped coffee in between. I was...
Learning to Learn
The motivated, self-regulated, and engaged “expert” learner is what we want in our classrooms. We know they not only do better in our classes, they do better in their next classes because they learned how to learn. So, how do we go about reducing barriers that can get in the way of student metacognitive development, while at the same time setting up accessible and challenging learning environments?
Learning Technology Updates for March 2021
We are happy to announce the following enhancements to the learning environment at Georgia State: iCollege Quizzes -- Improved Copy Workflow Beginning March 26th, the copy functionality will be available on individual quiz drop-down menus. This simplified workflow...
A Wrinkle in Class Time, Part 1
Every student will spend time in a different way, but making some basic estimates can help you and your students to better navigate your course.
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work…With Some Help Along the Way
“Group projects make me understand why Batman works alone.” - Anonymous It’s no secret that students are often less than enthused about working with their classmates. We’ve all heard the horror stories: the group member that never shows up, the domineering leader, or...
What’s Your Story?
Does your course have a story to tell? A fruitful way to view your course is through the lens of narrative or story. No matter what the topic or discipline there is always a way to incorporate storytelling in course design. Embedding your discipline's concepts into a...
From the Interwebs: Tips for Building Online Instructor Presence
Every now and again we come across articles with some very quick practicality for teaching online courses. And where we often focus on designing your course, instructor presence in an online course is probably one of the biggest contributors of student retention...
The Joy of Breaking Things
I’d been thinking about the need for experimentation in learning. How might we design experiences where learners feel safe and motivated to explore? To disrupt habits and take risks? Then my daughter’s daycare classroom closed due to a COVID-19 exposure,...
iCollege Updates for February 2021
We are pleased to announce two major updates coming to iCollege this Friday, February 26. Both updates are focused on making the learning environment more accessible to all learners. For more information on accessibility and universal design, please review this...
Managing Incompletes in iCollege
Each time a course is created in iCollege there is a course end date automatically set. Once the end date passes, students can no longer access the course. The default end date for a course is generally 60 days after the last day of classes as shown on the...
Bean Dad Pedagogy: Teaching Complex Software Tools
In the early days of 2021, the internet was briefly consumed with the story of ‘Bean Dad,’ a father who’s 9-year-old daughter was trying to make baked beans but didn’t know how to use a can opener. Bean Dad saw this as a ‘teachable moment’, gave his daughter a...
Moving Lawyering: Practice Ready Writing Online in a Pandemic
Moving courses from a face to face or blended environment to fully online typically includes challenges, but when the class has an intricate fixed schedule and multiple moving parts the challenges increase exponentially. My name is Katie Bridges. I'm a Learning...
Learning Technology Updates for January 2021
Welcome to a new year in learning technology! This month we want to highlight a couple of Webex updates, and we want to share how you can turn off the new iCollege Assignment creation experience if it does not meet your needs. iCollege – Turning Off the New Assignment...
Effective and Efficient Communication with Students in iCollege
In my last post, I suggested that instructors establish immediacy with students by making adjustments to the way they respond to student emails. But once they have access to your iCollege course, there are many communication techniques that can effectively provide...
Answering Student Emails to Establish Immediacy
Hi, I’m Steve. I was a professor of communication for thirty years before accepting a position as a Learning Experience designer in the CETLOE in June. A month after starting, I was asked to teach an online class for the Department of Communication in the fall. The...
December 18 iCollege Updates
As we approach the end of the year, we are excited to announce some recent and upcoming improvements to iCollege. Most of these updates will go live on December 18. Please see details below regarding updates to Quiz Retakes, the My Courses Widget, a new Assignment...
Arts Critique in the Time of Covid
“Hulk Smash!” I thought to myself as I dominated critique after critique. It was April of 2020, penultimate critique sessions for Advanced Animation, and after 9 years of teaching digital arts, I found myself reverting to teaching behaviors I had worked hard to...
September 25 Webex and iCollege Updates
Beginning September 25, the following features will be available in Webex and iCollege: Webex -- Webex Assistant Provides Live Captioning The new Webex Assistant, available beginning September 25, will allow Webex Meeting participants to view live, machine-provided...
Cisco Webex Meetings Enhancements, Part Two
The second round of Webex updates will be live on September 15! For a recap of what has already been updated, please see our previous blog post. Below is a preview of what to expect on September 15. Video Breakout Sessions in Webex Meetings Breakout sessions in Webex...
Cisco Webex Meetings Enhancements
We are excited to announce a new Webex Meeting experience launching September 8! This update will improve the interface for Webex Meetings bringing a modern, easier-to-use design to make Webex Meetings better than ever! Note that these changes only apply to Webex...
iCollege Updates for August 28
We are happy to share improvements and feature updates coming to iCollege on August 28th. See below for details, and contact help@gsu.edu if you encounter any problems or have any questions. Starting August 28, the New Quiz...
Crosslisting in iCollege
As many courses have recently shifted to fully online instruction, some instructors noted that they had multiple identical online-only courses in iCollege and have asked that their courses be crosslisted. Crosslisting is a process that combines two more more sections...
iCollege Updates for May 22
We are excited to share some updates coming to iCollege tomorrow, May 22! We will update this blog post on additional links to Knowledge Base articles as they are available, but we have shared a preview of what to expect in tomorrow’s update below. [learn_more...
Intelligent Agents with Perimeter Professor, Michael Bradley
Intelligent Agents in iCollege let instructors send automated reminders to their students about things like remembering to log in or submitting upcoming assignments. In this video, Michael Bradley, professor of Religion and Philosophy at Perimeter College walks us...
Content Best Practices
Take a moment and think about the content in your course. Not the specific information contained in your course content but the actual media itself. What comes to mind? Did you think about a textbook? Maybe some articles and a video you found on youtube. Or, maybe...
Online Teaching Best Practices
Well, fancy meeting you here, friend! Was it the title that got you to click the link? Well, excellent! I'm glad we're both interested in how it is that we transform our teaching to do what is best for our online students. Teaching online clearly isn't the same as...
Prequel to the Process ft. the School of Public Health’s BSPH Program
Spring semester is in full swing and so are this year’s new projects. The designers at CETL have started implementing a new exciting (just trust me for now) program design process that we've been working on for a hot minute. I won’t get too into the weeds about all of...
New Upgrades to iCollege on January 24, 2020!
Several upgrades and enhancements are coming to iCollege today, January 24. Please see the list below for full details for the new Quiz Builder tool, updates to assessing Quizzes, and updates to assessing Discussions: Quiz Builder Building Quizzes in iCollege is...
Preparing for a Film Shoot at CETL
We, at CETL, are always amazed by professors for the many things that you do. Be it the clarity of expression of ideas, or the inspiration that you provide for students outside of the major, or the ways that you help shape the life goals of so many students. On a very...
What’s New in Course and Program Design at CETL?
Welcome to the first CETL blog post of the new semester, year, and decade! This post is a team effort featuring Joju and Taylor. We're here to let you know about some of the new projects the course and design team are working on this semester. We'll both be working on...
New Upgrades to iCollege on October 25, 2019!
Several upgrades and enhancements are coming to iCollege today, October 25. Please see the list below for full details: TurnItIn PeerMark is Now Available TurnItIn PeerMark is a tool for facilitating peer review assignments in iCollege. This tool is now...
The CETL Onion
Forrest Gump, the titular character of the beloved American film Forrest Gump, is known for saying “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” I would argue, that life is much more like a box of onions. You don’t know what you’ve got...
Position Available: Graduate Lab Assistant, Learning Technologies
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and Perimeter College are seeking FOUR graduate students to provide instructional support for simulcast courses taught at the Alpharetta, Decatur, Dunwoody, and Newton campuses of Perimeter College. This position will...
The Prodigal Intern
Look, it’s Michael! He’s returned to us! You all might remember Michael from his award-winning internship this past summer with CETL’s Learning Analytics and Learning Experience Design teams. Oh, you didn’t catch that? Well, to make a long and scintillating story...
The fantastic and sometimes delicious benefits of co-design
I don't usually order pancakes (team waffle all the way) but the allure of "duck gravy-smothered" anything was too strong to pass up. The pancakes arrived along with a glass of OJ, and honestly, I think the term “smothered” was a little too conservative. It was...
Reflect, Rethink & Refresh
Transforming a face-to-face course into a 100% online course for the first time can be a daunting experience. It’s a big change and in the beginning it may seem a nebulous task to take on. This summer, I partnered with professor Eric Wright, Ph.D., to redesign SOCI...
The Iterative Process of Process
A long time ago in an office not that far away, I had just finished an initial meeting with an English professor. After meeting with a faculty member, the designers on our team will reflect on what was discussed and send a follow-up email to recap and provide next...
Langdale 200 Simulcast Experience
Langdale 200 now hosts new technology that allows you to extend your lecture to students who are not physically in the classroom. Using Webex-fueled cameras, displays, and conferencing tools, students can join your lecture via a Webex link from their own...
Position Available: Graduate Lab Assistant, Learning Technologies
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and Perimeter College are seeking FOUR graduate students to provide instructional support for simulcast courses taught at the Alpharetta, Clarkston, Decatur, and Dunwoody campuses of Perimeter College. This position...
Position Available: Graduate Research Assistant, Learning Technologies
The Center for Excellence in Teaching is seeking a graduate student to assist the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning with assessment and reporting on existing and emergent CETL programs and initiatives, with an additional emphasis on assessing the quality...
Come Work With the Learning Experience Design Team at CETL!
GSU's Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) is looking for a passionate designer to liaison with our College of Law and work exclusively on online and hybrid law programs. The candidate who gets the job will be a member of CETL's Learning Experience...
NSF’s We Are Mathematics Video Competition Winners!
Congratulations to GSU's John Weber from the Mathematics department and our very own Garrett Dehart (not pictured) for winning the NSF's, We Are Mathematics Video Competition! The video promotes John's project SMILES (with fellow PIs Dennis Pearl from Penn State and...
The Diversity Readiness Rubric: Talk the Talk Or Walk the Walk
The Diversity Readiness Rubric: Talk the Talk Or Walk the Walk The Diversity Readiness Rubric is a unique guide designed to improve our course designs at CETL. It articulates a robust set of standards for evaluating courses while expressing Georgia...
New Upgrades Coming to iCollege on June 8, 2019!
Several upgrades and enhancements are coming to iCollege on Saturday, June 8. Please see the list below for full details: Webex -- New, Modern Webex Integration The new Webex integration provides an improved interface for scheduling meetings and...
Reflection Question Bank for your Courses
Metacognition is one of my favorite unsung heroes in learning. Without reflecting back on how you achieved the results that you achieved and considering the means by which you learn, you will be less likely to achieve success in the future. However, most reading...
The Value of Integrating with iCollege
iCollege is more than just a learning management system—it is a digital learning environment that brings together learning technologies and digital courseware from multiple vendors into a single environment making it easier for instructors and...
iCollege and Canvas Integration Process
Integrating a new learning technology or digital courseware with iCollege or Canvas/Stacks requires that the requestor (faculty or staff) be willing to participate in the integration process. When integrating with iCollege or...
Constrained Writing Approaches To Creativity and Design
I often wondered when I cursed, Often feared where I would be— Wondered where she'd yield her love, When I yield, so will she. I would her will be pitied! Cursed be love! She pitied me ... - Lewis Carroll Do you notice anything...odd about the piece of writing above?...
Technology and Courseware Selection Made Easier
Evaluating and selecting a textbook/courseware or learning technology can be overwhelming and often times a confusing process. Vendors and their sales representatives often describe their products in such a way that it is difficult for you to...
PC Sites is Going Away!
PC Sites is Going Away! On April 30th, 2019, you will no longer have access to websites hosted on PC Sites (https://sites.pc.gsu.edu). CETL will be decommissioning the server that hosts all PC Edublog sites. If you wish to keep your website, you will need to manually...
Cool Tools: TwoTone
Think data visualization just isn't clicking for your innovation-loving students? Try data sonification! TwoTone allows you to convert your datasets into sound. Now, this may sound like it's just for the novelty of things, but it also serves an accessibility purpose....
Interwebs: Changing Instructor Mindset Lowers Racial Disparities in STEM
Campus Technology published an article about some research conducted by the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University in Bloomington that was just published in Science Advances (yes, I just gave you the link to both a summary...
10 Minute Tips – February 2019 Calendar
Do you have a few minutes to increase your knowledge about iCollege or other technology integration tools? CETL will be hosting several short webinars to help you stay in the know about technology that you can use in your classroom. Join us in our WebEx...
Speculating with Speculative Design
Here at CETL, the Instructional Design team really likes to experiment. For those of you who know us, this probably doesn’t come as a complete surprise. We do have one of the most playful spaces on campus. And we take our play seriously. Last year, we...
New Rubric and Assignment Interfaces for iCollege
As we announced in the Fall, the learning management system we used for iCollege moved to the cloud and is now on a continuous update delivery system. This means that iCollege will be getting small improvements on a monthly basis. Our first update...
An Evening of Technology
Georgia State University Part-Time Instructors An Evening of Technology Part-Time Instructors, join the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning for An Evening of Technology. This event will provide technology expertise and creative solutions that will...
Creating Insanely Great Syllabi
Today’s blog topic is The Syllabus. We’re mid-semester and probably not thinking about next semester, but should you? This is a good time to have this discussion so you can take some time to think about and play with this approach! This is my third year as the CETL...
Reassessing your Assessment Strategy
First of all: Happy Fall Semester 2018 from Sarah and Will! Now that you’re a couple of weeks in, you might feel some grading fatigue setting in. As such, this is a good time to switch all of your skill-building assessments to auto-graded multiple choice quizzes in...
Staff Innovators Program (SIP) and Perimeter College Online Success
If you haven’t heard about the Staff Innovators Program, I hate to say it, but you have sadly missed out. Like the wise Tony the Tiger once said: It’s Grrrrr-eat! In fact, take a second and read a bit about it here so you’re prepped to hear about my experience as...
What’s it Take to Tell a Story (A Story About a Story)
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The Course and Program Design team (CPD) has this video that we really like. We use it in a ton of meetings and post it in various online spaces because we think it really helps our partners and potential partners get a glimpse into what working with us is...
Design Reflection: FI 4040: International Finance
A Design Journey Begins In May 2017, Dr. Shrikhande reached out to CETL to inquire about transforming his face to face FI 4040 course to an online experience. As indicated by the instructor, more and more courses in his department provide the online option for...
iTeach With iPad: Higher Ed Edition
Let’s start with a hypothetical situation: Your institution has decided to adopt iPad for all students and faculty. You need to attend professional development on how to use iPad for teaching and learning. You’re not convinced this is more than a fad; in...
Staff Innovators Program: The SIPPLE Effect
This spring marks the end of the Staff Innovators Program (SIP). SIP is a rigorous year-long program in design thinking that focuses on human-centered design. I had the great fortune to collaborate on this project with the indefatigable champion of innovation,...
Design Reflection: Fostering a (More) Socially-Just, Rigorous, and Caring Community in a 130 Student, Fully-Online SOCI 1101 Course
Accolades and Congratulations Dear, dear CETL blog readers: I think that you should all join me in a big round of applause for Dr. Jung Ha Kim. Not only did she just finish teaching her first ever online course, but she also graciously, carefully, and caringly guided...
Spotlight on Tiffany Green-Abdullah, Manager of Learning Community Development
Meet Tiffany. Her secret powers include super stealth and being in 8 places at once. Ok, not really but she is a super connecter that knows those folks...and those folks...and those folks! So what does the Learning Community Development team...
SoTL Workshop on Learning Analytics for Assessing Student Engagement
Learning Analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about learners and their contexts*. At Georgia State University, we use Learning Analytics to understand and optimize learning from academic data that is typically generated from...
So You Want To Start a New Program!
So you’ve decided to start a new program here at GSU. Congratulations - that’s super exciting! Except: You soon realize that starting a program is a multi-pronged process starring a smorgasbord of people, policies, contexts, concerns, and excitements. This is where we...
Spotlight on Chad Marchong, Manager of Learning Analytics
Is Chad your friend? If not, he really should be. Not only is he a gentleman and a scholar, but those of us on the Instructional Design team also deemed Chad our collective best friend long ago. This holds for both his previous incarnation as Manager of Learning...
Affordable Learning Georgia Grant: Round Eleven
Have you ever felt like chucking your always out-of-date, expensive, and totally non-remixable (under penalty of law) textbook from the eternally-spalling Courtland Street Bridge? Now's your chance! The USG's Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) initiative is currently...
Help: I’m not ready to teach this online class and the semester is starting TODAY!
Sometimes, departmental teaching schedules get a little...interesting. Instructors sometimes quit right before (or during) the semester. Faculty may be asked to take on additional courses during the Drop/Add period to meet unexpected demand. Class format is...
Open Educational Resource and Statistics Anxiety
Yu-Ju's (Sharon's) paper is just published in the Journal of Formative Design in Learning (Wohoo). This is part of her dissertation study that she adopts open educational resources in the introductory statistics/quantitative research methodology courses to deal with...
The Socratic Method
It was only a matter of time. Years back, WordLens showed the world a camera app that could be pointed towards any text & instantly translate it. Google bought it & includes it now in their Translate app. Then PhotoMath & MathPix entered the scene &...
Post/human Approaches to Design and Teaching?
Post/human Approaches to Design and Teaching? Lately, it seems like you can’t turn a corner without being smacked in the face by the specter of posthumanism. As with other educational philosophy trends of yore (I’m looking at you, constructivism) posthumanism is the...
Clash and Flow: Pedagogy and Street Art
On December 2, 2016 a group of instructional designers and graduate students hopped on the Atlanta Streetcar at Hurt Park for the first ever guerilla Art in the Wild: StreetArt Tour in the Edgewood district. The goal of this CETL-hosted trip was to encourage educators...
iCollege Prep Week – Spring 2017
Do you need last minute help with setting up your Spring classes in iCollege? Learning Technologists are available to assist you in the iCollege Emergency Room at the Clarkston Campus on Thursday and Friday, January 5 and 6, from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm. To reserve a time...
Exploring Teacher Professional Development and Support in an Adaptive Learning Environment
Every student is unique. Individual difference among students can result in diverse ways of communication, interaction, and learning. In the Convention of Association of Educational Communication, & Technology (AECT) in Las Vegas this October, I presented a study...
Inspired by Design: Art In the Wild StreetArt Tour
When we think about designing classes we tend to think about controlling these experiences. What if we flip the script, however, and also think about disorder? How can we use chaos (both ordered and disordered) in our course designs? For our fourth and final Inspired...
Now Available: Magna Commons Online Professional Development
In celebration of National Distance Learning Week, we would like to introduce you the Magna Commons an online repository for professional development for all GSU faculty. The Magna Commons provides access to pre-recorded informational webinars. Topic categories...
Inspired by Design: Creating Local, Contextual Experiences: Atlanta History Center
So let’s say that you teach an awesome undergraduate course at GSU. Your students are doing well, your evaluations are decent, and your Dean is pretty happy with your performance. However, you still have a small, persistent itch in the back of your mind: What if I...