engage - transforming teaching and learning through technology
top 5 teaching challenges
As identified by UW-Madison faculty and staff in 2007

Challenges:

  • Deliver lecture materials online?
  • Use alternatives to traditional assessment and testing?
  • Develop engaging hybrid courses?
  • Offer broader access to course materials? (The Wisconsin Idea)
  • Facilitate collaboration and group projects?


Solutions:

If you want to... Then try...
Foster "just-in-time" learning by using pop-up windows from existing web pages to teach concepts
Concept Tutor / Teach Lab
Use interactive images to teach concepts or ideas containted in visual representations
Quizimage
Add text commentary, transcription and explanations to audio files for timed display during user playback
Audio Transcriber
Synchronize a transcript to an audio or video file (for accessibility, for language translation, or as a learning aid)
World Caption*
Solicit student feedback, allow anonymous student responses, create game-like quiz formats or test student understanding of a concept
Student Response Systems (Clickers)
Automatically deliver portions of your course content in audio, video or graphic formats to students so that you can free up class time for discussion
Podcasting
Make online videos interactive by inserting prompts, questions or other media elements
QuizVideo
Create case scenarios that incorporate multimedia, questions or opportunities for exploratory learning
Case Scenario Builder
Easily create and maintain a web-based glossary customized for your subject
Glossary Builder
Create online lecture presentations to help students before or after class, or as part of an online course
eTeach

 

*World Caption was developed by Brian Deith, School of Journalism and Mass Communication - http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/worldcaption

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