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LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor: Prevent Cheating During Online Exams
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You can upload an existing syllabus file and students select the link to open it. The syllabus will appear as a standalone item in the content list. The only restriction of file type, is that is must be in a format that students can open.
Creating a Content Item with an attached File. What is OER?OER stands for Open Educational Resources, and is a term that refers to any educational resources that are typically:
What is not OER
What does this mean for CLC?It means people sometimes get confused! The college is supportive of faculty offering no- or low-cost textbook alternatives as a method of getting to students to have ready access to course materials and ultimately increase student success. However, not all no- or low-cost materials are OER. In order to truly be considered an open educational resource, that resource must be free and open to share with anyone (typically under a Creative Commons license).
The Teaching, Learning and Educational Technology Center serves as CLC's Clearinghouse for Open Education Resources, and we are happy to help you learn more about them, where to find them, and how to use them! College of Lake County Learning Outcomes (CLOs)CLOs are college-wide learning outcomes that were developed to ensure our students leave the College of Lake County with the skills and knowledge necessary to pursue their academic, career, and life goals.
There are eight CLOs:
It’s important that our students get repeated practice in each of the eight outcomes as they take coursework across disciplines and participate in extracurricular activities here at the college. Our systematic assessment of how well students are doing with each skill will help us identify strategies that lead to continuous improvement in the teaching and learning of the CLOs. A description of each can be found at: http://dept.clcillinois.edu/vpe/forms/CollegeofLakeCountyLearningOutcomes.pdf (Source: Vasilka Maslanka, Assessment Coordinator) “Student-Faculty interaction has a stronger relationship to student satisfaction with the college experience than any other involvement variable, or indeed, any other student or institutional characteristic.” Alexander Astin
Focusing on student retention does not mean lowering academic standards in your classroom or lab. Retention is not the goal; rather it is the result of providing a quality undergraduate experience. In fact, setting high expectations, while providing adequate support, is a basic premise of all retention efforts. What can faculty members do? Connect with students and help them connect with each other:
Help students succeed:
Identify students in trouble and reach out to them:
Encourage and acknowledge successful students:
(Source: Tanya Woltmann, Dean, Library, Testing, and Academic Success) Open educational resources (OER) are replacing primary courseware in higher education, with the potential to triple in use over the next five years — from 4 percent to 12 percent of the primary courseware market. The use of OER for supplemental learning materials is expected to quadruple in size as well, jumping from 5 percent to 19 percent.
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