Teaching

December 20, 2022

Assessment Types

Reading Time: 6 minutes Conestoga provides students with a wide range of assessment types. This tip describes the goals for choosing evaluation types, explains how discrete assessments fall within...

Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Lesson and Course Planning

December 5, 2022

Adding Video or Audio Feedback to Assignments

Reading Time: 5 minutes On average, students will likely review the feedback you offer in your assignments as many as three times (Anson et al., 2016). Yet, to many...

Assessing Learning/eConestoga/Rubrics and Marking/Student Focused Assessment/Teaching/Tech For Teaching

December 5, 2022

Learning Path – Excellent Fully Online Teaching

Reading Time: < 1 minute View this video introduction to the learning path on understanding your role and responsibilities as a faculty member delivering a fully online asynchronous course. What’s...

New Faculty/Online Asynchronous/Teaching

December 1, 2022

Flip Video Discussion Forums

Reading Time: 4 minutes Flip (formerly FlipGrid) is a Microsoft product that allows you to build engaging video discussion forums. Conestoga faculty have used this tool to invite students...

eConestoga/Licensed Apps and Pilots/Teaching/Tech For Teaching

November 23, 2022

Oral Assessments: Benefits, Drawbacks, and Considerations

Reading Time: 6 minutes This tip discusses factors to consider when deciding whether to add an oral exam as a course assessment.

Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Student Focused Assessment/Teaching

November 22, 2022

Creating a Harmonized Assessment Tool for Capstone Projects

Reading Time: 4 minutes Capstone projects showcase students’ comprehensive learning. Conestoga’s Computer Science programs host a capstone project at the end of each semester – an opportunity for students...

Faculty Stories/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

November 8, 2022

5 Benefits of Fully Online Learning for Students and Employers

Reading Time: 3 minutes 5 reasons why fully online (asynchronous) learning benefits students and employers

Online Asynchronous/Reflective Practice

October 25, 2022

Getting Students to Participate in Breakout Rooms

Reading Time: 7 minutes “[B]reakout rooms do not always magically create engagement and higher levels of learning.” (Saltz & Heckman, 2020, para. 16) Breakout groups are used as a discussion...

Active Learning and Engagement/Class Management/Group Work/Online Synchronous/Teaching

September 8, 2022

Adult Learning Principles for College Teaching

Reading Time: 5 minutes How can we be sure our practices reflect the fact that all of our students are adult learners? Conestoga’s youngest students are 17 year-olds who...

Teaching/Theory and Practice

September 2, 2022

Developmental Review of Fully Online (Asynchronous) Teaching

Reading Time: 5 minutes The Teaching and Learning Department offers a developmental review of asynchronous teaching to support faculty who are teaching fully asynchronous courses.

Educational Development Opportunities/Educator Development/observations/Online Asynchronous/Teaching

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