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‘perusall’

learning online with social annotation

jul. 26, 2021—this spring cft executive director derek bruff experimented with the social annotation tool perusall in his first-year writing seminar. perusall allowed him to share a variety of course materials with students, including news articles, podcast episodes, and youtube video, and to invite students to annotate those texts collaboratively. he used the tool in several different...

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transform your teaching with perusall with eric mazur

mar. 10, 2021—learning is a social experience — it requires interactions and interactivity. the coronavirus pandemic has been a good opportunity to rethink our approach to teaching. moving some tasks to an online format suggests that many activities that have traditionally been synchronous and instructor-paced, can be made asynchronous and self-paced. through perusall, we will demonstrate how...

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teaching with perusall and social annotation – highlights from a conversation

sep. 23, 2020—by derek bruff, director this summer, hundreds of participants in the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分’s online course design institute had the chance to use a social annotation tool as part of their experience in the institute. my cft colleagues and i asked participants to read a few articles about online teaching and annotate them collaboratively, first...

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upcoming conversations on teaching

sep. 3, 2020—these sessions provide members of the vanderbilt teaching community a chance to share their teaching experiences and learn from each other in an informal, discussion-based format.   teaching in a hybrid and physically distanced classroom for some instructors, the classroom looks very different this fall. some of their students are in the classroom, but masked...

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