Academic Innovations: Summer Workshop

What did I learn?

Academic ‘teaching’ innovations

• Use of new technology: iPod and apps that are useful in teaching.

• Universal Design for learning and learning outcomes: Bloom’s Taxonomy– Need to collect and share best ‘activities’ adopted by

successful teaching methods.

• Assessment and Evaluations tools available.– Rubrics for different types of assessments– How to use ‘rubric tool’ in the new versions of BB– hands on training in the workshop– CATS

Teaching Tools

• Creating ‘slide share’ document and embed into BB.

• Learning more about ‘student response’ systems.

• How to redesign courses to accommodate different learning styles, and students with different cognitive abilities.