Student Centered Course Design is an approach to education where students are active participants (rather than passive receptacles) in the learning task. An outgrowth of Constructivist theory, student-centered learning is well-suited to online and hybrid-online courses where students can take an active, self-directed role in their mastery of content using collaborative technologies.Teachers who embrace student-centered learning can skillfully access the knowledge students already possess and channel it into the current learning task.

Student Centered Learning

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Student Centered Learning and Canvas

Canvas is designed to support student-centered learning, and it gives students more autonomy than Blackboard did-- they have the ability to form their own study groups, create collaboration spaces, and build their own e-Portfolios. They can get instant feedback from interactive lessons, engage in real-time communication, and use the "What-If" feature in the gradebook to see what kinds of grades they need to score on every assignment to get the grade they want. Canvas offers several wiki-style collaboration tools that allow students to contribute to a shared understanding of the content.

This training course is designed to walk you through the student-facing view of Canvas first before you start building your own course as an instructor. Some of the learning materials you will see along your way are designed for the student perspective, but don't worry! We will get to the Instructor view in Workshop Two.

Next Page: Faculty Tech & Teaching Survey

On the next page, you will find a five-minute survey about your comfort teaching with technology. This is solely for our purposes so we can assess training needs and track our effectiveness at raising faculty tech competencies. Your responses will be anonymous and will not be used for any other purpose.