Teaching in CarmenCanvas
Teaching in CarmenCanvas
Sharing innovative stories, best practices and resources to enhance your teaching strategy at Ohio State
Faculty Show and Tell: Virtual Poster Symposium
Taking a traditional in-person course and transforming it into an online-only format can be challenging. How do you stay engaged with your students? What happens when an essential course assignment is a highly interactive, face-to-face activity? Believe it or not, CarmenCanvas has the functionality to make engaging assignments work in a virtual space.
Associate Professor Brian Lower and Instructional Aids Associate Ella Weaver, from the School of Environment and Natural Resources, used CarmenCanvas to create a virtual poster symposium.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS
Student Success Hinges on Three Essentials
Instructional designers share the three essential items all Carmen courses should include in order to set students up for success—and they are simpler than you might expect.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS
Students Talk Carmen
Focus groups were conducted to gather direct feedback from students about their experiences with courses in Carmen. Students shared what was most important to them in Carmen as well as what instructors can do to enhance their learning experience.
RESOURCES
Swift Coding Workshops
Attend a 90-minute workshop to learn a new approach to coding that gives everyone the power to learn, write and teach code. You’ll hear about the new Swift Playgrounds app and explore ways to build coding into your curriculum.
TECHNICAL HELP
Cross Indexing Content
Learn how to reference existing content by using direct links in your CarmenCanvas courses. Providing direct links ensures clarity, reduces capacity for confusion and increases student accountability, while also saving students valuable time.
BEST PRACTICES
Impact of Mobile on Learning
Shanna Jaggars and Marcos Rivera share their research on the impact of mobile technology on students and learning. Discover what factors can lead to the success (or failure) of deploying tablets in the classroom.