Florida State College at Jacksonville Taps Packback to Reimagine Online Discussion
FSCJ has officially partnered with Packback in order to enable faculty to create more enriching, engaging online learning experiences for students.
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Packback and Michigan State Team Up to Reimagine Online Discussion
Through a new partnership with Packback, Michigan State University is now giving instructors and students access to an inquiry-based discussion platform designed to increase engagement and boost academic outcomes, even in remote settings.
The Importance of Supportive Ed Tech at HBCUs
Dr. Tyra Gross is a professor of public health at Xavier University of Louisiana, a historically Black university. In her experience, she has found that HBCUs are often well-known for a few specific things (famous graduates, high-profile conversations with tech CEOs), but folks don’t know as much about what happens on campus day-to-day. As we …
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From Disenchanted with Discussion to Inspired about Inquiry: My Experience Adopting Packback
In this article, Professor Sarah Garman explores her experience teaching online for over a decade and the disenchantment she experienced with traditional online discussion after years of hard effort on her part never quite yielding the results she wanted. With that skeptical attitude, she tried Packback and found her excitement towards discussion reinvigorated through Packback’s …
Implementing Technology in College Classrooms
When Dr. Kaston Anderson-Carpenter steps in front of his psychology class at Michigan State University, he sees 175 students interacting with laptops, tablets and smartphones in a carefully constructed academic environment.