On-Demand Workshop Videos

This session  focused on the CoursePlus Gradebook tool, including its customizations,  its tie-ins to other CoursePlus tools, its most recent upgrades  including extra credit options, and more.

This Toolkit  Workshop highlighted the benefits of using the online Gradebook as both  a means of record-keeping and as a pedagogical choice in opening  communication with and fostering motivation in your students. Various  research findings and sample scenarios were discussed to lead  participants to further consider how they might best use the Gradebook.  As a part of this Toolkit, we demonstrated specific features of the  CoursePlus Gradebook module.

This  session brought members of the CTL Technical Writing, Audio Production,  and Instructional Design Teams together to offer helpful tips for  developing and delivering a narrated PowerPoint lecture in preparation  for a CTL studio recording. The benefits of modularization, good slide  design, strategies for accessibility, and recording best practices were  highlighted while focusing on the 3 P’s – Planning, Preparation, and  Performance. While the session was geared for preparing and recording a  lecture in the CTL studio, the shared strategies and techniques can be  applied to narrating a PowerPoint with any teaching and learning  platform.

View Preparing a PowerPoint for Narration in the Studio:
    Section A: Planning (7:42)
    Section B: Preparation (8:05)
    Section C: Performance (5:50)

This  workshop focused on dissecting and understanding different types of  rubrics, and examining their benefits for both faculty and students.   Strategies for building and integrating the rubric were discussed. The  session's takeaway gave participants a better understanding of creating  and using a rubric that sets clear expectations for students, all while  streamlining grading practices. The session's handouts are available as  PDFs: Designing a Basic Rubric, Example Rubrics.

In  CTL’s continued exploration of alternatives to the traditional  lecture-driven class, guest facilitators Dr. David Jernigan and Ayelet  Hines shared their experiences on the merits of Experiential Learning,  specifically as the method was applied to their course on “Theory and  Practice in Campaigning and Organizing”. They were accompanied by a  student who was able to share her perspective and give positive  testimony to the practice. In their course, students are paired with  organizations over two JHSPH terms while they develop a campaign plan  and apply the knowledge gained in their field experiences to a final  paper and presentation.

​​

Guest  facilitators Dr. Janice Bowie and Lee Bone led the second part of the  workshop, sharing their perspectives using the Harvard case-based method  of teaching and learning. The course they have taught together (with  Suzanne Greene - SOM) that applies this pedagogy is an introductory  course into community-based participatory research (CBPR). Their  presentation included a background in case-based learning (CBL) before  sharing specific applications using the method in public health training  and in CBPR. Here, too, a student was able to share their perspective  on this lecture alternative.