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Our goal is to communicate the latest news related to UC’s eLearning ecosystem, Canopy. If you have input, please email us at ucitpio@ucmail.uc.edu. View past publications of the Canopy Newsletter in our newsletter archive at uc.edu/canopy.
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Introduction to Psychology, English Composition, Elementary Statistics and beyond: what do the courses that 70 percent of first-year students at the University of Cincinnati take have in common? They are all part of the Great Gateways initiative. Great Gateways courses are those that are integral to a major discipline and are essentially “gateway” courses into that major.
The initiative was born of a need to decrease the drop/fail/withdrawal (DFW) rates in these key courses, and focuses on finding innovative ways to support them, such as new instructional design, faculty training and technological resources.
The Center for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning (CET&L), the Center for Excellence in eLearning and the Learning Assistance Center are partnering with key faculty members on the initiative to ensure that there is integrated support during the redevelopment of these courses to reach their end goals. They are also working to ensure that students as well as faculty are aware of the myriad resources available to them outside the classroom.
Great Gateways creates a learning community so that everyone involved knows what is going on at all times, and instructors can use their courses as a place of innovation.
“It’s trying to take all the disparate groups that help these students and put them in one room, so we can coordinate all of our efforts,” said Noel DeJarnette, a calculus instructor and assistant director of the UC Math and Science Support Center. “You can find some interesting people that are really using technology to drive the learning that is going on.”
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eLearning backpack project
Apply for Cohort 2 by Tomorrow
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Applications Due TOMORROW
The deadline to apply for Cohort 2 of the eLearning Backpack Project is tomorrow, Friday, June 19.
For more information and to apply, visit uc.edu/canopy/tools/elearningbackpack.
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