Learning Solutions Newsletter Q2 2021
LEARNING & COMMUNITY CORNER
Ina Fleischer new in the LS team
The Learning Solutions Team is pleased to welcome a new member for the second time. Ina Fleischer joined us on 1st of June and brings with her a lot of experience in the field of training and media didactics with a focus on gamification. Ina will support the team in the area of instructional design, training and other projects. In the following video (with english subtitles) you will learn everything you need to know about Ina :)
Dear Ina - welcome to the team!
DIDAKTICS & TEACHING
Tips for making grading less painful
For many of you, the end of the semester is in sight—or at least it would be if you didn’t face a huge pile of exams and papers to grade. Grading season can be a slog—we’re sharing tips to make the process less painful.
1. Allow enough time to complete the grading of exams in smaller chunks.2. Set a goal for yourself, e.g. grade 10 papers a day and then give yourself permission to do something else.3. Use rubrics to ensure that you are grading consistently and transparently.
Further techniques are presented on the following pages:
"Grading Strategies" from Western University’s Centre for Teaching and Learning
"Tips on Grading Efficiently" from Berkeley University’s Teaching and Resource Center
„How to Grade Faster in 2020" by Deborah J. Cohan, published in Inside Higher Ed
Good luck, and let us know, what grading hacks work best for you?
INNOVATION & INITIATIVE
EDTECH Austria Webinar with Lyuba Stafyeyeva, MA on Remote Proctoring
Innovationsservice Salzburg together with EDTECH Austria organised a webinar on "Remote Proctoring: Dos and Dont's". Our colleague Lyuba Stafyeyeva, MA, took part and presented basic approaches, considerations and challenges in online proctoring of exams from a university perspective.
The webinar was an exciting exchange, as the topic was examined from different perspectives:
- Insights from international solution providers for remote proctoring- The perspective of users such as universities- Student perspective- Legal perspective
Here (partly in German) are the presentation slides of the individual presentations from the webinar for review.
Conclusion of the webinar from the MCI's point of view:
Good proctoring is good proctoring, whether online or in person. So let's not be fooled:
Guide to compressing videos
We would like to inform you about a new guide on how to compress files.
Some of you may have been confronted with large video files from recorded MCI webinars® or other files to share with your students via Sakai. It is possible to quickly exceed the maximum upoad limit of 150 MB or the total storage limit of 1 GB in a course site.
To help you find a quick solution, we have created a short guide for the HandBrake software. The software is used to compress or shrink files and allows you to share your files with students in Sakai without much quality reduction.
The guide is available for you on our internal Sharepoint in the Media Productions section, on the Teach Online site and here as direct link.
With this in mind - Let's compress!
If you have other questions regarding your teaching, we are always here for you!
Your Learning Solutions Team.
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