CENTRE for TEACHING and LEARNING
Educational Technology
Create engaging classroom experiences for all students, even those who might not usually speak up. With helpful educational technology, you can transform your classroom into a compelling learning environment.
Teaching Tools
Explore a range of teaching tools designed to support effective, engaging learning experiences. Visit the program guide to find upcoming workshops or request a consultation for personalized support in using these tools.
Alethea: AI-powered academic coach in mêskanâs
Alethea is an AI-powered academic coaching tool that helps students engage more deeply with assigned readings.
Now available as an activity in mêskanâs, Alethea flips the script on the misuse of AI tools and supports critical reading and comprehension by combining proven learning strategies with generative AI. It’s designed to foster meaningful interaction with scholarly content, especially in reading-intensive courses.
Mentimeter
MacEwan has an enterprise license for the interactive presentation software, Mentimeter. This license is available to faculty, staff and students. To access Mentimeter, go to Mentimeter.com, click Log in, and log in with SSO using your MacEwan credentials. If you have an existing account, it will automatically be ported over and you will receive an email from Mentimeter advising you that your account has been upgraded to MacEwan’s enterprise license.
H5P
H5P is an open-source tool for creating interactive learning content such as quizzes, videos, presentations and practice activities. Faculty can embed H5P directly into the learning management system and open textbooks developed through MacEwan Open Books (Pressbooks), so it's easy to integrate engaging, accessible and reusable activities into courses and materials.
Pressbooks
Pressbooks is an open-source publishing platform for creating, editing and sharing open textbooks and course materials. MacEwan Open Books, the university’s publishing platform that uses Pressbooks, allows faculty and staff to collaboratively develop accessible web-based teaching and learning resources and export them in multiple formats (e.g., PDF, EPUB) for flexible use.
Guide to Assessing Educational Technologies
This resource outlines key characteristics to consider when assessing educational technologies for classroom or other academic use.