Tech Talk (Learning Technology)
This system is the primary Learning Management System (LMS) used at Howard for courses, grades, and assignments.
What is Canvas?
CETLA was established in this year to support teaching innovation at Howard.
What is 2003?
Online courses must provide clear, predictable structure so students know what to do each week. This is achieved by organizing content using consistent ______.
What are modules?
DOL supports faculty in building on-campus, hybrid, and online courses as part of this category of academic oversight.
What is online program development?
The main library building on campus, home to the large African-American history collection, is known as what?
What is Founders Library?
This audience-response tool allows instructors to poll students in real time using mobile devices or laptops.
What is PollEverywhere?
The current interim director of CETLA is this Howard University faculty member.
Who is Dr. Kyndra Middleton?
Using frequent low-stakes quizzes in online courses helps students check their understanding all qualify as this type of assessment.
What is formative assessment?
For a course to be considered "distance education" rather than "correspondence education," the DoE requires institutions meet this three-word standard.
What is regular and substantive interaction (RSI)?
The first Homecoming at Howard — a tradition that would influence many HBCUs — was held in what year?
What is 1924?
This virtual platform allows for instructors to record their lectures and presentations, create captions for their audio, and edit video/audio components of a recording.
What is Echo360?
The establishment of the Office of Digital and Online Learning was supported by a grant from this foundation.
What is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?
Research shows students learn better when course objectives, learning activities, and assessments all work together to ensure that learners achieve the desired learning outcomes - or, that they demonstrate this.
What is alignment?
This process focuses on reviewing courses to ensure they meet essential standards.
What is Quality Assurance?
The Howard University radio station, WHUR-FM, is famous nationwide for originating this smooth jazz format.
What is “The Quiet Storm”?
This tool is described as a “glass chalkboard pumped full of light,” used for creating visually engaging video lectures.
What is Lightboard?
A core part of DOL’s mission is developing and facilitating this type of infrastructure that supports high-quality online education across Howard.
What is a digital learning infrastructure?
Intentionally limiting extraneous information—such as busy layouts, unrelated graphics, or lengthy text—reduces this for learners, referring to the mental effort required to process information in working memory.
What is Cognitive Load?
This document lists all essential course components, including learning objectives, assessments, learning activities, learning materials, and digital learning technology.
What is the Course Map?
Howard University’s motto means “Truth and Service.” What is the motto in Latin?
What is “Veritas et Utilitas”?
This collaborative tool allows instructors to create flash-cards, interactive white-boards, or live flowcharts to share during a live session.
What is Lucid Chart?
In 2024, Howard welcomed an international delegation from this country to share its digital learning innovations.
What is Jordan?
Federal guidelines require that online courses include purposeful, academically related instructor interactions—not just grading or announcements. This requirement is known as ______.
What is Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI)?
When designing online content, instructors should include meaningful text alternatives so students with visual impairments can access images. This practice is part of ______.
What is accessibility?
As of 2025-2026, Howard is classified as this highest-level research institution type under the Carnegie Classification system.
What is an R1 research university?