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Thoughtfully Crafting a Blended Course (Card Activity)

July 16, 2024

In this activity, you’ll consider the differences between onsite, blended, and online learning, visualize your course’s existing modalities, explore what modalities are – and aren’t – working, and experiment with different modalities to see what makes sense for your specific teaching context. This can feel overwhelming; re-design is a time and energy consuming prospect. We all know how many tools there are out there and no one has idle minutes.

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Stuff we learned during the 2024 conference season

June 27, 2024

We each pulled out memorable moments from the Teaching and Learning Symposium (TLS), the IT@UofT conference, Adobe World Conference, and the Crowdmark Community Conference to share.

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Let us know how we’re doing

June 3, 2024

To help inform the ETO’s service and support planning for the upcoming 2024/2024 academic year, we’d like to hear from you!

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Using Lighting to Transform a Room for Impactful Interviews

May 27, 2024

ETO’s Education Media Specialist, James, will talk about what went behind the filming of the two-person interview videos created for one of the modules in Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG), an online course in the Mining Industry Management Program (MIMP).

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MADE for U of T | Ep. 11 | Luke Hobson

May 24, 2024

In the 11th episode of MADE for U of T (see all episodes), we hear from instructional designer and author, Dr. Luke Hobson, who shares his experience working as an instructional designer and suggests what other designers can do to level up their skills and offerings.

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Faculty Question of the Week (May 23, 2024)

May 23, 2024

How can I download a Quercus rubric in SpeedGrader?

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Faculty Question of the Week (May 16, 2024)

May 16, 2024

How can I embed an interactive word cloud into a PowerPoint presentation?

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Quercus Updates (May 2024)

April 26, 2024

This update: Crowdmark new features, MS Stream interactivity tools, Quercus Discussions redesign, and tools being removed from the Academic Toolbox.

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