WELCOME FACULTY
Welcome to The Center for Instructional Innovation. This is your destination for on-going support as we work together to serve the needs of both the 21st century world and our students. Here, we come together as peers to share ideas, questions, successes, and yes- the occasional snares we all sometimes fall into as work to ensure that the education we provide for our students will serve them today and tomorrow.
Please feel free to browse the resources posted here. Many more will soon be coming, along with multiple opportunities for collaboration on many levels. Live, synchronous discussions will take place here soon along with demonstrations, debates, and simulations.
As we launch The Center for Instructional Innovation (The CII), it is crucial that you recognize how seriously we take our mission: to promote and enhance teaching and learning effectiveness. Education truly is a team sport and no one person can be all things to all students; only by combining our strengths, ideas, issues, and experiences can we, as a faculty and as individuals, move our practice to a higher level.
Thank you for all that you do for Brandman, our students, and our community.
Click here to learn more about an exciting new initiative for 2013!
Open Invitation:
Any BU instructor who gives a presentation (best practices, research, poster,...) at a reputable, professionally relevant conference is invited to share his/her achievement with the rest of the BU faculty in a special CII webinar. Please email cii@brandman.edu with the details of the conference and the presentation after it has taken place and we will contact you to arrange an online date that works for you.
All live trainings take place in the Virtual Training Room, http://brandman.adobeconnect.com/cii
Log in as a Guest if you do not have an Adobe Connect account.
Please remember that ALL videos streaming from Adobe Connect (you'll see it in the url), will need to be resized to fit your screen properly.
Introduction
Academic Integrity
Adobe Connect
Attending
Basic Tips & Tricks
Blackboard
Brandman University Digital Glossary
Grades
GradeMark (School of Arts and Sciences; School of Business and Professional Studies)
iDEAL (Instructional Design for Engaged Adult Learning)
The following resources are also available through My Window:
LiveText (School of Education; School of Nursing and Health Professions)
MyAccess
Online Writing Community
Online Faculty Spring Meeting Archive
Quality Matters
Prezi
Thoughts/Ideas/Opinions/FYI
YouTube
Webinar Archives - Getting the Most out of Our Virtual Library
Please view these three documents to learn about an exciting, new research initiative for all instructors.