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Generative and increasingly agentic AI are challenging educators to rethink what, how and why we assess. As AI systems become more capable of producing polished work and completing complex tasks, assessment focused primarily on final products may tell us less about what students actually understand, can do and are learning along the way...

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Online learning is not broken. Too many online courses, however, have become content warehouses with deadlines. Students learn to navigate clutter, locate hidden instructions, complete mechanical discussion posts and remain largely invisible. Disengagement is easy to hide, and feedback often arrives too late to influence learning...

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Whether you are a faculty member, instructor, staff, or even graduate student, this course can help you build foundational knowledge to engage with open educational resources (OER) and help you expand your pedagogy through engaging with open publishing tools and open education concepts. This course provides insights into open licensing, sourcing quality OER, and using tools like Pressbooks and H5P to create engaging, accessible content...

Do you want to improve your online teaching skills? Do you want to be able to create content, gather resources, support your students' learning or design effective assessment tools?

This professional learning program could be just what you are looking for!