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Humanizing the Online Classroom
Featuring: Kona Jones
Director, Teaching and Learning at Richland Community College, Canvas Community Coach, Phd Candidate Instructional Technology Leadership
The Pros and Cons of Using Social Media in Higher Ed Classes
Social media has your students' attention. Does it belong in your higher ed courses?
Check out why it could make a big impact.
Promoting Information Literacy and Integrity in Online Discussions
Online and asynchronous classroom discussions can offer students valuable learning opportunities. Turnitin and ActiveClass bridge the challenges of meaningful discussions in online and asynchronous learning to promote engaging, accountable, and original conversations.
Call it what you want, but please don't call it a discussion board.
Discussion boards had their time in the sun. It's time we gave our students something better and more intuitive.
Engagement is Bigger Than a Buzzword
But it's also much more than a simple metric. See why students are leaving school and how ActiveClass can help.
High five for HyFlex
The past few years have spotlighted the inability of certain higher ed structures to meet students’ and instructors’ needs. But for many classes, HyFlex offers solutions—and ActiveClass is the perfect fit for this instruction model.
Innovative Professor Leverages ActiveClass to Guide Students to Engagement
As an Associate Professor of Africana Studies with an emphasis on Digital Culture, Dr. Bryan Carter is always on the lookout for new technologies and ways to create interactive and immersive learning experiences for his students...
Student Engagement Platform Raises $1.9 million
The round was also joined by several angel investors and executives from successful Arizona EdTech companies CampusLogic and Parchment.
The company plans to use the fresh capital to build its growth engine, enhance customer support, and expedite product development.
Early stage EdTech company raises $1.9 million in seed money
Scottsdale, AZ, October 25, 2021; ActiveClass, an early stage education technology company focused on improving student success and retention through better student engagement, has raised $1.9MM in seed money.
Creative Arts and Media School Modernizes Peer Feedback With ActiveClass
As a renowned liberal arts college focused on Media, Film, and Graphic Design, Columbia College Hollywood has its proverbial finger on the pulse of cutting edge technology and design.
Social media is the worst...but also kind of the best.
Scottsdale, AZ, September 30, 2021 - Social media can be a powerful tool to help engage students. ActiveClass aims to make it easy to leverage social media content, connect with classmates, share relevant content, make sense of it with an instructor, and engage in a social-like environment, right inside of courses, all inside the LMS.
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