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Flipping Your Course: Making Your On-ground Lectures Available Online

By: Chris Neidig
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Getting students to retain information from your lectures can be a difficult challenge.  Traditional class lectures in a hybrid course don’t always ensure that students will understand key concepts. Integrating multimedia into a course Read More »

Screen Capture in Your Online Course

By: Chris Neidig

Instructors are always looking for innovative ways to connect and teach their students. Whether the class is online or on-ground, Camtasia Studio is a perfect tool for making content more engaging. Finding a single tool that can help with lectures, grading, and incorporating videos is very difficult. So let’s take a look at Camtasia Studio and see if it can help you.

What exactly is Camtasia?

TechSmith’s Camtasia Studio is a screen capture and video production tool all in one. With Camtasia Studio you can record your screen activity as videos with narration and produce them into multiple file formats. You can choose to capture the entire screen or any section of the screen. Once you have a series of capture shots it’s just a click to start producing your final video!

Before we get into the functionality of Camtasia, let’s think about some of the reasons you might create your own screencast.  Read More »

Faculty Innovations – Summer 2010

By: Jennifer Rafferty

By the Instructional Design Team at QU Online

This summer online faculty at Quinnipiac University implemented a number of innovative strategies to enhance student engagement and improve learning outcomes.  We would like to highlight these faculty members and recognize their efforts to improve the quality of online learning at Quinnipiac University.

Michaela Alexandru – MA206 Statistics for Behavioral Sciences
This summer MA206 Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, taught online by Part-time Faculty, Michaela Alexandru, received the Quality Matters seal of approval, an affirmation of excellence in online course design and novel use of pedagogies in teaching statistical methodologies for quantitative analysis. Read More »

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