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Creating a Productive Learning Environment

Students learn best when they are in a positive and safe environment that engages and challenges them intellectually. Here are some resources for creating safe and healthy learning spaces.

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Quality Matters: Peer Reviewer Course (PRC)

6 April 2021

Hello and welcome back! For Spring 2021, Academic Innovation is providing professional development opportunities by offering Quality Matters workshops/Courses. Quality Matters (QM) is a faculty-centered, peer-review process designed to certify the quality of online and blended courses. UTSA became a Full Subscribing member of Quality Matters in October 2019 and began implementation in January 2020. Note that all [...]

Creating Engaging and Interactive Content Using PlayPosit

13 April 2021

Looking for a new way to create engaging and interactive content for your lessons online? PlayPosit is an interactive video platform that allows you to create video assessments and create an active learning experience for your students in an online environment. In this session, you will learn the basics of PlayPosit, how it is [...]

Podcasting 101 with Adobe Audition

13 April 2021

Ready to start your first Podcast? Need a place to talk about your ideas and share them with the world? This class will teach you the basics of recording techniques and how to use multitrack sessions in Adobe Audition. Register and join [...]

Adobe Virtual Office Hours for Faculty

14 April 2021

Want to add Adobe programs to your course but you aren’t sure how? Stop by Adobe Office Hours for a casual conversation on how you can implement Adobe in your classroom. Register and Join [...]

Best Practices for Active Learning Techniques

15 April 2021

Active learning promotes engagement with course materials and energizes the classroom, but how do we move students from passive listeners to active learners? In this workshop, you will learn strategies to engage students in activities that promote analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of course content. Register and Join [...]

Learning the Advanced Features in Panopto

15 April 2021

Panopto is the easiest way to record, manage, and share videos, and it is free to UTSA faculty, staff, and students! Learn about the advanced tools Panopto has to offer to measure engagement such as statistics tracking at the student level, in-video quizzes, and how to assign video projects so students can create their [...]

Digital Accessibility in Practice – Video Accessibility

21 April 2021

Creating accessible videos can be daunting, but knowing the requirements and creating a plan of action can help you tackle this project. We will cover the accessibility requirements for asynchronous video content, our suggested process when creating a video from scratch, and how to review and think about remediating current video content. Register and [...]

Connecting the Classroom to Careers

22 April 2021

"Why do I have to take this class?" Are you able to answer this question from your students? In this session, campus experts will provide faculty with resources and ideas for helping students connect what they are learning in their courses to their future goals. We’ll review why connecting learning to a career path [...]

Promoting classes and programs. Where to start with Adobe products.

27 April 2021

Want to fill that summer or fall course? Promotion is the key to your success! This session will look at a few different Adobe tools that you can use to help you fill the seats in your upcoming courses. Register and join [...]

Adobe Virtual Office Hours for Faculty

28 April 2021

Want to add Adobe programs to your course but you aren’t sure how? Stop by Adobe Office Hours for a casual conversation on how you can implement Adobe in your classroom. Register and Join [...]

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