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H5P: A Remarkable Tool for Customized Learning

FIU Online’s Insider Instructor Webinar series explores relevant instructional strategies and effective uses of technology for the online environment. In “Has Your Content Gone Stale? H5P Can Help!,” Associate Director of Learning Technology and Honors College Faculty Fellow Maikel Right (formerly Alendy) discussed how leverage H5P to create more engaging content. In this article, we […]

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Learning Tools for Active Learning

FIU Online’s monthly Instructor Webinar series explores relevant instructional strategies and effective ways to use technology in an online classroom. The “Engage and Activate” webinar, presented in May 2021 by FIU Online’s Dr. Trina Sanders and Charles Roig, demonstrates how to use learning tools to incorporate active learning into your class. View the full instructor […]

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Building Interactive Quizzes with H5P

As millions of educators are settling into virtual learning, they are exploring different strategies like interactive quizzes to engage students. Instead of attempting to fully re-create in-person teaching, remote learning challenges instructors to think creatively and build a virtual environment for students to thrive. This summer, I had the pleasure of collaborating with Professor Ines […]

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EdTech Tools to Increase Student Engagement

PlayPosit: Increase Engagement with Videos Using videos in online learning may not sound ground-breaking or innovative, but that’s because you’re not using PlayPosit yet. PlayPosit is a tool that provides an intuitive, easy-to-use editing platform for creating interactive videos, also known as “bulbs.” You can use videos you create or content you have curated from […]