Miami Dade College empowers faculty to make learning more engaging with Kahoot! solutions and training at one of the largest and most diverse higher education institutions in[...]

When the pandemic hit and classes switched to remote learning, the faculty knew they needed tools that would keep students motivated to learn in a remote setting. Many educators at the college took the initiative to create free Kahoot! accounts to support their teaching, and when Hanadi saw that faculty members were finding real value in these solutions, she took action to take the college's Kahoot! experience to the next level.

"I reached out to our associate provost for academic learning and technologies, and he purchased the college-wide license," Hanadi said. "Once it was official, we started doing training and promoting it."

This opened a new chapter in MDC's use of Kahoot!. The college's Center for Institutional and Organizational Learning (CIOL) not only supported the roll-out of hundreds of Kahoot! EDU licenses for faculty members, but connected with faculty to ensure that they could reap the full benefits of their new license.

"This was the trigger for us to start offering training and support for Kahoot!," Hanadi said. "Then the communication started with the Kahoot! Customer Success team to make it more official and to offer training, and we took it from there."

By purchasing Kahoot! at the institutional level MDC was able to build a partnership with Kahoot! to support the work of the CIOL. Hanadi and other CIOL staff members worked closely with their Customer Success Manager at Kahoot! to create accessible training resources that would help faculty master teaching with Kahoot!, including taking advantage of Kahoot!'s new features. The CIOL hosts both webinars and in-person workshops, all interactive learning sessions focused on two topics: pedagogy and technology.