Let’s be honest: you approach the start of every semester with the perfect plan for a smooth online course. But as finals roll around, you find yourself buried in a heap of ungraded assignments, student emails, and rushed lectures. Dr. Amber Webber, an Instructional Design Manager at FIU Online and a seasoned professor, has been […]
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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 […]
Re-Imagining Video Lectures
FIU Online’s monthly Faculty Webinar series explores relevant instructional strategies and effective ways to use technology in an online classroom. The recent Re-Imagining Video Lectures for Impactful Learning Experiences webinar offered a crash course on PlayPosit, a powerful tool for adding interactivity to video presentations. It includes how-tos on developing interactive videos for asynchronous and […]
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 […]