Center for Teaching Excellence

Welcome to the Center for Teaching Excellence

                                   Your students' attention and engage them by allowing them to:

Connect their learning with prior knowledge 

• Share video introductions using loom or padlet
• Incorporate their personal experiences in their assignments

Ask questions

• Post their questions on discussion board for peers to respond 
• Develop their own question for an assignment based on their interests/ experience with the topic
• Use a customized AI bot or Blackboard AI bot to foster socratic inquiry
• The Question Game: Learners must read the textbook and have access to a course discussion forum. For each textbook chapter, the instructor creates a thread within the forum that asks an “initial question” that starts the game. Learners are encouraged to check the forum before reading the chapter. This way, they know what question to answer. If, as they read, they find the answer, then they’re encouraged to post the answer, specific source, and a new question. The next “participant” in the game should look to answer the newly written question instead of the “initial” question. As each person participates, they should look to answer the newest question in the forum.

Talk with peers

• Collaborate with smaller discussion groups where each has a predetermined role (flippity.net)
• Answer each other’s authentic questions
• Allow students to annotate comments on a Yuja video or perusall.
• Use student-only discussion boards to discuss assignments
• Asynchronous Scrabble Using google slides with unlimited letters

Categorize and apply new Information

• Use outlines or graphic organizers to thematically organize material
• Answers specific questions by video segment (Yuja)
• Offer alternatives for learners to engage with materials
• Discussion Board Response Randomizer: Before responding to the question, use the randomizer to designate a role, audience, format and topic
• Games: https://jeopardylabs.com and https://www.flippity.net/
• Engage in simulations/ case study analysis 
• Debate with peers
• Create a visual/poster, share a podcast audio clip, song or poem
• Virtual Escape Rooms StudentAffairs.Com Escape Room Quest

Handwriting and Drawing to reinforce learning