June is an ideal time to gather educators, administrators, policymakers, business leaders, and philanthropists. With summer break underway but fall semester planning still distant, participants
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Upcoming Changes to YouTube Embed Player: Increased Ads from August 1st 2024
Educators and students alike have long relied on the seamless integration of YouTube videos within Blackboard Learn to enhance the learning experience. YouTube’s rich repository
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Personalized AI tutoring as a social activity: Paradox or possibility?
Can the paradox between individual tutoring and social learning be reconciled though the possibility of AI? By Ron Owston | June 12, 2024 EDUCAUSE Review
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Ungrading: Decentering grades to enhance student learning
Many people inside and outside of academia seem preoccupied with the specter of “grade inflation.” But, what if instead of grade inflation (or its scary
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Feminist pedagogies inform inclusive STEM teaching
Traditional STEM teaching has a persistent predicament of exclusion and inequity. The 2023 Diversity and STEM: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities report from the
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Strategies for long-term learning success
It’s not a new idea that students need to take an active role in their learning process to learn effectively and retain content over the
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Inclusive group assignments: Fostering teamwork among diverse identities
A survey conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates on behalf of the Association of American Colleges and Universities found that employers believe undergraduate programs
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Equitable, non-traditional grading
Traditional grading methods typically revolve around meeting specific criteria to obtain a grade. For instance, the conventional 0-100% scale aligned with the A-F system is
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Call for proposals for Illinois Online Higher Education Symposium
NIU is proud to be partnering with Illinois public higher education institutions to offer the first Illinois Online Higher Education Symposium, bringing together thought leaders
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Supporting AI Use for Teaching and Learning
The following update was shared by Jason Rhode, associate vice provost for Teaching, Learning, and Digital Education, at the Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, and Personnel
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Adobe Creative Cloud Suite available for all NIU faculty
The Division of IT and the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning are excited to announce that all NIU faculty of all ranks and classifications
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Incorporating AI in the classroom ethically
What do you think of AI? (Redux) In the blog post “Generative-AI-resistant assignments,” we posed the question, “What do you think of AI?” Whether we
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