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The CATs in a Hat: Fostering Higher Order Thinking

The CATs in a Hat: Fostering Higher Order Thinking


By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

This is the third article in our series on Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) which can be used to gauge lesson effectiveness and student comprehension. To review, CATs were developed by Angelo and Cross (1983) to efficiently check whether studen ...

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Using Twitter and Facebook to Encourage Student Classroom and Political Engagement

Using Twitter and Facebook to Encourage Student Classroom and Political Engagement


By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

In this online Faculty Showcase video, Drs. Gina Woodall and Tara Lennon from the School of Politics and Global Studies discuss how the use of social media, specifically Twitter and Facebook, affects classroom engagement.They challenge the presumed l ...

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2016 Innovating Pedagogy Report

2016 Innovating Pedagogy Report


By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

December 21, 2016

The 2016 Innovating Pedagogy Report proposes ten new innovations that explore ways of teaching, learning, and assessment for an interactive and engaged world. The report is produced in collaboration with SRI International and The Open University. The ...

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Why Students Cheat

Why Students Cheat


By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

June 15, 2012

When faculty are asked “why students cheat?” they often cite different reasons from what a student would say. In this video, I highlight why students cheat. We begin be looking at some of the research on why students cheat and then we look at a theor ...

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Six Google Drive Add-ons to Enhance your Teaching Experience

Six Google Drive Add-ons to Enhance your Teaching Experience


By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Arizona State University offers Google Apps for Education to all students, faculty and staff. Google Apps for Education is a suite of free, secure tools which include Gmail, Calendar, Documents and Sites. Recently, Google launched the “Add-ons” featu ...

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Instruction By Design: How Important are the Numbers? A Data Literacy Dossier for Educators and Designers

Instruction By Design: How Important are the Numbers? A Data Literacy Dossier for Educators and Designers


By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

January 30, 2023

Season 06 | Episode 03In this episode, the Manager of Collaborative Learning from ASU’s Learning Experience team (Celia Coochwytewa) and the instructional designers from ASU’s Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation (Jinnette Senecal, Aaron Kr ...

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Recording Weekly Recap Videos

Recording Weekly Recap Videos


By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 14, 2020

Similarly to recording weekly overview videos, recording weekly recap videos provides an opportunity to create instructor presence and community within your course.Weekly recap videos allow for you as the instructor to interact with your students by ...

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Quality Matters Overview

Quality Matters Overview


By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

Arizona State University is committed to implement the Quality Matters standards for the design of online courses, and we are systematically building and evaluating our courses based on these rigorous, research-based standards. The Quality Matters st ...

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Using Voicethread

Using Voicethread


By: EdPlus Digital Learning Team

April 30, 2025

VoiceThread is a browser-based application that allows classrooms to have conversations asynchronously around images, videos, documents, presentations, and even lectures.  In the classroom, VoiceThread can be used for digital student-portfolios, ...

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