Introduction to Yellowdig

The following will provide you with an introduction to the social media platform: YellowDig.

Last Updated: 6 months ago in Learning Community: Yellowdig Tags: LTI, Plug-ins, Social Learning, Yellowdig

White House executive order prods colleges on free speech, program-level data and risk sharing

President Trump on Thursday signed a much-hyped executive order tackling campus free speech and college transparency. However, his bombastic rhetoric in a White House East Room ceremony wasn't matched by the modest language of the order. "If...
British university calls off conference amid protests from transgender activists

Threats by transgender rights activists to disrupt an academic conference on prison reform over the organizer’s allegedly “transphobic” views on how inmates should be segregated have led to its cancellation. More than 300 people were expected...
Maryland professor resigns after allegedly making discriminatory comments about Chinese students and cheating

A series of recent reported incidents have raised the specter of tensions between faculty members and the international students they teach. The most recent such incident involved the resignation of a professor from the University of...
New study says trigger warnings are useless. Does that mean they should be abandoned?

Trigger warnings don’t help students, and they might even hurt those grappling with serious trauma. That’s the upshot of a new study on trigger warnings published in Clinical Psychological Science. Concerned about the use of trigger...
Not everyone bullish on redesigned University of South Florida logo

For a college or university, unveiling a new logo is always a risky proposition -- students and alumni get attached to the old one, and any change feels wrong. In 2012, the University of California system...
Carol Folt brings experience dealing with scandal and controversy from UNC to USC

Two months after being unceremoniously ushered from a public research university struggling with Confederate history, Carol L. Folt landed at a private research university out west grappling with its own set of challenges. Folt, who in...

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TILT Tip: Effectively Using Video in the Classroom

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19 Mar

TILT Tip: Learning Objectives Series – Conclusion

Learning objectives are important to your course because they describe in details what knowledge and skills your students will learn in a lesson/module/unit. Your class activities should NOT ...
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18 Mar

TILT Tip: Blackboard Reminder – Gradebook
Be sure to maximize the functionality of the Blackboard Gradebook by entering "0" in the gradebook for students that have not completed assignments.
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