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Kick Off Rubric Creation with Blackboard AI

Posted on March 14, 2024 (March 18, 2024) by Erin Bell

By Russell Davidson, Associate Director for Digital Education Blackboard has introduced an array of AI-assisted tools to enhance ultra-style course sites. If you have utilized the stock image search to add a course banner following our February 2024 newsletter, you have already interacted with one of these AI features, as the default image search keywords […]

Attending to the Mental Health Needs of Students Using an Interactive Assignment

Posted on August 5, 2022 (September 6, 2023) by Erin Bell

By Dr. Renady Hightower, Associate Professor, Health Services Administration COVID-19 changed the world in 2020. The effects of which reached into the lives of each of us in many ways. COVID-19 research documents the pain and anguish felt across the spectrum of human existence. Unfortunately, the ultimate sacrifice has been the numbers of lives lost […]

Resources for Fostering a Sense of Community and Connectedness During Times of Change

Posted on April 11, 2022 (January 9, 2023) by Erin Bell

Open Educational Resources: The following links offer several free open educational resources which span the disciplines. DOAJ: The Directory of Open Access Journals provides free, Creative Commons access to over 17,000 peer-reviewed journals covering all disciplines. It is a donation and volunteer-supported non-profit based in the UK. https://doaj.org/ MERLOT: The MERLOT system provides access to curated […]

Microsoft Stream – Uploading Video

Posted on February 8, 2022 (February 11, 2022) by Erin Bell

Microsoft’s Stream is an excellent way to provide your students with access to your videos. Not only does it do a fine job of streaming video (as the name suggests), it does a fair job of automatically generating transcripts for your videos, which makes your content ADA compliant and more usable for your students generally. […]