Center For Teaching Excellence

Center for Teaching Excellence

Welcome to the Center for Teaching Excellence

Your students' attention and engage them by allowing them to:

Post their questions on discussion board for peers to respond
Develop their own question for an assignment based on their interests/ experience with the topic
Use a customized AI bot or Blackboard AI bot to foster socratic inquiry
The Question Game: Learners must read the textbook and have access to a course discussion forum. For each textbook chapter, the instructor creates a thread within the forum that asks an “initial question” that starts the game. Learners are encouraged to check the forum before reading the chapter. This way, they know what question to answer. If, as they read, they find the answer, then they’re encouraged to post the answer, specific source, and a new question. The next “participant” in the game should look to answer the newly written question instead of the “initial” question. As each person participates, they should look to answer the newest question in the forum.

Collaborate with smaller discussion groups where each has a predetermined role (flippity.net)
Answer each other’s authentic questions
Allow students to annotate comments on a Yuja video or perusall.
Use student-only discussion boards to discuss assignments
Asynchronous Scrabble Using google slides with unlimited letters

Use outlines or graphic organizers to thematically organize material
Answers specific questions by video segment (Yuja)
Offer alternatives for learners to engage with materials
Discussion Board Response Randomizer: Before responding to the question, use the randomizer to designate a role, audience, format and topic
Games: https://jeopardylabs.com and https://www.flippity.net/
Engage in simulations/ case study analysis
Debate with peers
Create a visual/poster, share a podcast audio clip, song or poem
Virtual Escape Rooms StudentAffairs.Com Escape Room Quest