Quiz Security in Canvas: Maximizing Security to Minimize Cheating

This Canvas guide to maximizing quiz security to minimize cheating aggregates all the tools and advice into one handy reference point for setting up quiz-style assessments in the Learning Management System (LMS). Properly formatted, quizzes are an effective means of both summative and formative assessment, depending on how they are designed.

For help designing assessments or knowing which tools are most appropriate for your classes, contact instructional designers in Online Learning by dropping a line to OnlineLearning@uah.edu today!

Teaching with Wikipedia

From Teaching with Wikipedia: A High Impact Open Educational Practice:

"Supporting higher education instructors who teach with Wikipedia is Wiki Education‘s specialty. We offer free resources for instructors to do this, which take the form of instructional design consultation, assignment management software, tutorials about how to contribute to Wikipedia, and print resources about editing in particular disciplines. These tools all come together in our Dashboard, a free and open-source web application that we consistently improve. In fact, we’ve built a volunteer development community around that continual improvement, and we engage a number of newcomers in this tech development."

“I call my senators, I vote, I donate to the ACLU, and now, I edit Wikipedia."

Future of Online Learning

In the Future of College Looks Like the Future of Retail, Jeffrey Selingo purports, "There are undeniable advantages, as traditional colleges have long known, to learning in a shared physical space. Recognizing this, some online programs are gradually incorporating elements of the old-school, brick-and-mortar model—just as online retailers such as Bonobos and Warby Parker use relatively small physical outlets to spark sales on their websites and increase customer loyalty. Perhaps the future of higher education sits somewhere between the physical and the digital."

Similar to e-commerce firms, online-degree programs are beginning to incorporate elements of an older-school, brick-and-mortar model.

Special thanks to Dr. David Johnson for this contribution to our blog!

OER Stewardship

Proponents of the Open Educational Resource (OER) movement are passionate and committed to the precepts of open access and free distribution of educational assets for the benefit of the masses. But how is such an egalitarian community ensured its sustainability, especially in an educational landscape crawling with private industry profiteers who are incorporating OER into their own pay-to-play offerings?

This brief overview of the CARE movement and considerations for committing to its success are a worthy read for anyone teaching online or considering doing so in the near future.

For more information on OER, how to find and/or produce it, and how UAH instructional designers can help you carve out your place in the OER community, please contact OnlineLearning@uah.edu.

The values expressed by the CARE Framework support a hopeful vision for the future of OER and education, positively impacting not only issues of access and affordability, but also the seemingly intractable issues of equity and inclusion. Thus the CARE Framework is meant to be applied by all individuals, organizations, and institutions who share a stake in the field’s long-term success and sustainability. This includes individuals who create or adapt OER for their own teaching and learning purposes; nonprofit OER publishers and libraries; commercial OER publishers; as well as educational technology vendors looking to incorporate OER into their products or services. CAREFramework.org