by Christina Sabo | Oct 26, 2020 | Featured, Features, Guides, Online
Whether you’re sending an email, posting in a discussion forum, or chatting online, digital communications can be tricky, as there no allowance for tone of voice or facial expressions. It can also be difficult to strike a balance between explaining things clearly and...
by Christina Sabo | Oct 19, 2020 | Accessibility, Featured, Guides
Over the past few years, Microsoft has become a leader in designing for greater accessibility, retooling everything from Word to their xBox controllers for better, more universal design. Among these changes, Office products (regular and 365 alike) now have numerous...
by Christina Sabo | Oct 5, 2020 | Featured, Guides, Online
Many students prefer taking online courses because they allow greater flexibility, especially during the pandemic, as many may now be balancing work and childcare with completing their course assignments in a way that they weren’t before. However, the pandemic...
by Christina Sabo | Aug 10, 2020 | Blackboard, Featured, Features, Guides, Online
Learning Technologies has four full-time instructional designers on staff and here to help you. But help you do what? We realize that it might not always be clear just what instructional designers do or how they can help you design and deliver your course content....
by Christina Sabo | Jun 15, 2020 | Featured, Features, Guides, Video
With instruction being online for the summer and online and hybrid for the fall, it’s never been more important to create video content for your students. Of course, for those who don’t usually create videos for their courses, this may not be a straightforward...
by Christina Sabo | Mar 27, 2019 | Featured, Guides, Tech to Try
Google Hangouts is an amazing tool for keeping in touch with groups of people with a shared interest–students, colleagues, or even a professional network. Unfortunately, Google plans to phase out the platform by October of 2019. So what can you use in its place?...
