Announcement

Online Training for Top Hat

It can be difficult to break away from the day to attend Top Hat training, so the Office of Teaching and Learning has created a tutorial to help you learn how to leverage Top Hat in your lectures. This self-paced, interactive module takes about 20 minutes to complete from start to finish and includes video demos and software simulations to help you learn more effectively. If you already use Top Hat and don’t need the whole module, there is an interactive Course Roadmap to take you through to the pieces you want to learn more about.

To start the module, follow this link to Leveraging Top Hat in Presentations.

Tips: What to do if your course storage is full

(Updated on Oct 4th, 2018)

A Carmen course shell currently has a file storage quota of 500MB; you can check your course storage usage on the Files page (left menu) of your course.
Only the files that you have uploaded into your course count toward its storage quota; for example, this does not include student submissions, files copied from other courses (including the master), or media comments you create within a content page or the SpeedGrader.
Unused files are automatically discarded when Teaching and Learning refreshes your masters. Read on for  some additional tips that you can follow in your masters and semester shells.

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CarmenCanvas training sessions available

Instructional designer Jay Hsiao provided two training sessions on CarmenCanvas during spring break. For those faculty and staff who were not available to attend, the following links take you to recording of the training.

The Carmen Content Refresher covers the basics. You can access it here: https://mediasite.osu.edu/Mediasite/Play/bc07b56d236f4732bf025e5d49a9c45c1d

The Carmen Assessment Refresher covers creating question banks, assignments, and quizzes. You can access it here:  https://mediasite.osu.edu/Mediasite/Play/cf31085b8a7c4d43b79df2155bb83d6d1d

First-year students evaluate iPads in the classroom

The class of 2020 was the first cohort of students equipped with iPads to support administration of high-stakes tests through ExamSoft and applications related to classroom instruction.

Early this semester, the Office of Teaching & Learning surveyed first-year DVM students to assess their levels of satisfaction with iPads, as well as how they used the mobile device to support learning. The results were generally positive, with recommendations for making them even more valuable.

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Discussion Groups on “Small Teaching” Begin Monday

Just a reminder that faculty conversation on James M. Lang’s Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning begins next week. Faculty and educational program staff are invited to join us for either or both discussion sessions scheduled from 8 to 9 a.m., Monday, Feb. 20, and noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21. We will be meeting in VMC 0076.

Topics covered are from Part I: Knowledge, which involves retrieving, predicting, and interleaving. In particular, we will consider what new knowledge we discovered in the first section of the book and how to apply that to our own pre-clinical and clinical instruction.

If you did not register for the book group but now have time to attend, please feel free to drop in. While we do not have additional copies of the books, several of us are willing to share our copies, and you can always order a digital copy (Kindle or Nook are currently available).

If you have questions, please contact Melinda Rhodes-DiSalvo, rhodes-disalvo.1@osu.edu.

Curtain Falls on Turning Point, but Top Hat is Here

Theatre Curtains

Turning Point will take its final bow during the summer 2017 and be replaced by Top Hat for the autumn semester. There are several reasons for this change, but chiefly, Turning Point does not interface well with Microsoft Office 2016.

Pedagogically, Top Hat can be used as a student engagement tool to test student’s prior knowledge, check for understanding of material recently presented, encourage class participation and engagement, and take attendance. The question types vary in range from a standard multiple choice question to “Hot Spot” questions that allow students to click on an area in an image for identification. Continue reading Curtain Falls on Turning Point, but Top Hat is Here →

Visiting Author Focuses on Academic Integrity, Teaching Excellence

Dr. James M. Lang, author of Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty and Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning provided faculty at the College of Veterinary Medicine insight into methods for promoting academic integrity, as well as small adjustments to teaching that impact student learning and retention.

Lang’s visit to the college began on Monday evening, Oct. 17, when he visited with a small group of DVM students in the second and third years of their program. The meeting was designed to present him with student perspectives on academic integrity and curricular experiences. Continue reading Visiting Author Focuses on Academic Integrity, Teaching Excellence →

New Horizon Report Highlights Tech Trends Relevant to CVM

One of the most significant annual reports about eLearning comes from the work of the New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. The NMC Horizon Report 2016 identifies trends and technology that drive educational change. This year, 18 topics were analyzed as likely to impact higher education. The following are relevant to the eLearning environment and curriculum at the College of Veterinary Medicine.

LEARNING ANALYTICS

“A number of researchers and companies are working to design … analytics that reveal patterns in learning-related behaviors to improve learning for individual students as well as across institutions. The kinds of student data being analyzed include institutional information such as student demographics and course selections, pace of program completion, learning platform engagement statistics, and concept mastery.”

At our college, data from ExamSoft, Qualtrics, and Carmen can be used to assess how we teach and how our students learn across the core curriculum and into clinical rotations. Continue reading New Horizon Report Highlights Tech Trends Relevant to CVM →

Visiting Expert Presents Innovative Approaches to Teaching Non-Technical Skills

indialaneOn Friday, Jan. 29, Dr. India Lane, Professor of Medicine in the Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Student Success at the University of Tennessee, visited with faculty to discuss methods of teaching non-technical skills across a veterinary education curriculum.

According to Dr. Lane, the following non-technical competencies have been identified as critical to successful veterinarians. Continue reading Visiting Expert Presents Innovative Approaches to Teaching Non-Technical Skills →