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Welcome to the Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment, and Redesign

UNT is the largest provider of online credit courses among Texas public universities.

The Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment, and Redesign supports the University's goal of enhancing learning-centered environments, thereby helping students get the most from their academic experience. Not only do we assist faculty in the creation, design, implementation, and assessment of distributed learning courses -- we also serve as the liaison for various administrative and technical support functions, thereby saving faculty's time, talent, and creative energies for their students.

Our Pledge to Instructors

The Center recognizes that you, as UNT Instructors, are the key to the University's ability to thrive in the highly competitive and volatile environment of distance education and we pledge to assist you by:

  • Providing initial consultation to help you determine the best combination of technologies that will enable your students to succeed
  • Providing team that will assist in implementing the instructional approach that you choose
  • Enabling you to increase your understanding, skills, and comfort level with distributed learning technologies
  • Acting as a liaison to support functions including the library, registrar, admissions, legal, The Coordinating Board and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
  • Helping you to obtain grants to support the re-engineering of your courses
  • Assisting in evaluating the outcomes of your distributed learning courses

 


May Brown Bag Spotlight:

Jessica Brannon-Wranosky, Ph.D. Candidate,
2009 UNT Outstanding Teaching Fellow

"Grading Student Writing Assignments Online Using GradeMark®"


Our final spring CLEAR Brown Bag, Grading Student Writing Assignments Online Using GradeMark®: Spring 2009 Semester Pilot, was held on May 7th in Chilton Hall Room 245.

Our presenter was Jessica Brannon-Wranosky, Ph.D. Candidate, 2009 UNT Outstanding Teaching Fellow, and Lead Designer for the Department of History’s 100% INET Survey Course Re-design.

A challenge facing many faculty members each semester is the management and grading of student writing assignments, particularly in large undergraduate class environments. During the spring 2009 semester, Jessica Brannon-Wranosky implemented Turnitin’s GradeMark® as a mechanism for accepting and grading online writing assignments/essay exams for both United States History survey courses.  Jessica will share her experience using Grademark and identify advantages and disadvantages she has discovered during her spring 2009 semester pilot.

Additionally, participants were entered in a drawing to win a copy of Teaching Online: A Practical Guide by Susan Ko and Steve Rossen (ISBN-10: 0618298487).

 


If you have ideas of specific faculty doing interesting things in the online learning environment, please send your ideas to Jane Himmel at the Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment, and Redesign and she'll be happy to schedule a presentation.