5 Tips for Improving Accessibility
Accessible design helps every student. This post gives you five practical tips and a short routine for checking your Canvas pages.
Teaching and Learning
Mastering Personalisation Tactics
Personalisation does not mean a separate course for every student. This post offers four practical tactics and a way to keep them manageable in…
Tips and Tricks for Creating Playlists and Choice Boards
Playlists and choice boards give students a say in how they learn. This post shares practical tips for designing both, and shows how to…
A Minimum AI Learning Entitlement: What You Can Build in One Canvas Week
A HEPI guest post proposes a minimum AI learning entitlement for every student. Here is what you can realistically offer in one Canvas week,…
Using Active Learning Techniques in a Blended Course
How to use active learning in a blended course, from online preparation to in-class techniques and discussion between sessions.
Carpe Diem Learning Design by Gilly Salmon
Carpe Diem is Gilly Salmon’s team-based approach to learning design. See the six steps and how to use them to build a Canvas module.
The Engagement Cycle and How to Use It
Students rarely disengage in the middle of a task. They drop away in the gaps. The Engagement Cycle gives you three stages and nine…
5 Effective Icebreaker Ideas and Tips
Five short icebreakers you can use in the first week of a course, with practical tips and a simple way to run one as…
The New Bloom’s Taxonomy: A Practical Guide for New Academics
A plain-English guide to the revised Bloom's taxonomy for new academics: what changed in 2001, how the six levels work, and how to use…
Creating Meaningful Feedback
Feedback only works if students can act on it. This post shows how to write specific, forward-looking comments, time them well and manage the…
