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Plagiarism Education Week

April 16, 2013, 4:01 pm

Turnitin and other sponsors, are offering a week of online webinars devoted to helping educators foster student understanding that Originality Matters.

The Webinar series includes:

Mon. April 22, Students and Plagiarism: Exploring the Disconnect Between Morals and Behavior

Tue. April 23, Plagiarism Spectrum Drill Down

Wed. April 24, Responding to Plagiarism: Lesson Plans and Strategies

Thu. April 25, Policy to Practice: Developing Effective Academic Integrity Policies

Fri. April 26, Teaching Originality, Creativity, and Critical Thinking

Blackboard Innovative Teaching Series 2013

February 25, 2013, 3:43 pm

With support from Blackboard’s global community, OSU is partnering with Blackboard to bring you a faculty training webinar series entitled The Blackboard Innovative Teaching Series (BITS). This program will bring best practices and evolved online pedagogy training to you in a concise and effective series consisting of weekly training webinars that have been designed for educators and will be led by your peers and product experts.

All educators are invited to join, regardless of your technical know-how or experience using Blackboard or other learning management solutions. To help you better gauge which sessions to attend, the webinars are divided into three tracks: Getting Started, Collaboration, and Assessing Learners.

More information about the tracks, the schedule, and registration can be found at http://www.blackboard.com/bits. All webinars are recorded and available online.

Here are a few upcoming offerings in this year’s series:

Creating and Planning Content for K-12, April 22, 2013 10AM PDT

Strategies for Generating Collaboration Online for K12, April 29, 2013 10AM PDT

More About Rubrics, May 6, 2013 10AM PDT

Motivating and Engaging Your Online Students, May 13,2013 8AM PDT

Organizing Your Content, May 20, 2013 10AM PDT

Please note - some of the webinars may demonstrate Blackboard functionality that OSU has not yet upgraded to...

Quick Steps Newsletter

Every year, TAC produces a newsletter called "TAC Quick Steps" to inform faculty of instructional technology changes and highlight some new or existing services that TAC offers.

Download the 2012 newsletter.