Center for Teaching & Learning
Teaching: Helping Students Make Sense of the Election
November 5, 2020Teaching and learning centers, as well as centers for civic engagement, have also been working hard to prepare staff and faculty members to talk about the election and its aftermath with their students. If you’re wondering how to talk about…
Electric Pickup Trucks, Online Learning and the Large Lecture Class
October 21, 2020How do electric trucks relate to higher ed? I've come to think of the large face-to-face lecture course as the Ford F-150 of higher ed. As an industry, we are addicted to the economics of the big lecture. There is…
Richard Mayer Has Spent Decades On Educational Research – Here are His Pandemic Teaching Tips.
October 21, 2020Richard Mayer is one of the most influential educational researchers. The journal Contemporary Educational Psychology ranks him as the No. 1 most productive educational psychologist in the world. EdSurge reached out to Mayer to learn what his research reveals about…
McGraw Hill Online Teaching Guide
October 21, 2020Need Help Developing a Quality Online Teaching and Learning Experience for Faculty and Students? Download and share the Online Teaching Guide with your faculty. McGraw Hill is committed to providing faculty course design and delivery support that keeps quality at…
7 Ways to Do Formative Assessments in Your Virtual Classroom
October 21, 2020Formative Assessment 7 Ways to Do Formative Assessments in Your Virtual Classroom Finding out what your students are really learning remains indispensable to teaching. Here’s what teachers are doing to check for understanding online. By Nora Fleming October 1, 2020…
Class for Zoom Adds Classroom Experience to Popular Meeting Platform
September 30, 2020Success for All: Access and Equity in the New Normal 2020 UTLG Fall Conference Watch video By Dian Schaffhauser A startup founded by ed tech veterans has announced a program intended to make Zoom more effective in replicating the classroom experience for…
Rethinking Effective Student Learning Experiences
August 10, 2020Patrick T. Terenzini describes six characteristics that, based on decades of research, have been found to cultivate and promote student learning. After 40 years studying how college affects students, and after reviewing more than 7,000 studies published since 1970, a…
Ton of tools and 10 things to do if you’re new to online learning…
April 30, 2020Schools and Universities in several countries have closed down for weeks. But life goes on. Or does it? Do educators simply give up and wait until students come back or do what they should do and switch to safer online…
UDL is essential in post-secondary pandemic learning
April 30, 2020Leveraging Universal Design for Learning, or UDL, will help ensure effectiveness and a level of normalcy in an unexpected new learning reality The shock has passed, the sadness comes and goes, and the stretchy waistband pants are becoming a mainstay.…
3 ways to stay connected when going remote
April 29, 2020These strategies and resources will contribute to a more inclusive learning experience--even when going virtual You’ve just made a heroic effort to rapidly transition your course to online delivery in response to a campus closure. It’s important now to take…