This is a guest post from Dr. Marcus Croom, Assistant Professor of Curriculum & Instruction, Indiana University School of Education and a CITL DEIJ Faculty Fellow. Happy November! Have we teleported from the first blog to this final blog of our three-part series? Feels like it to me. We’ve covered a lot of ground together,… Read more »
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Getting Student Feedback at Midterm
We in the CITL are big proponents of getting mid-semester feedback from students as a way of improving our teaching and their learning. While there is much we can learn from end-of-course evaluations, that information doesn’t offer us opportunities for smaller adjustments that can prove valuable to this semester’s students. And asking your students for… Read more »
Has It Already Happened?
This is a guest post from Dr. Marcus Croom, Assistant Professor of Curriculum & Instruction, Indiana University School of Education Quick question: Has January 6, 2021 come up in your classes yet? I wish I could hear what you’re thinking right now. Whatever your thoughts may be, here’s what I’m thinking: January 6th already came… Read more »
What Inclusive Instructors Do
Through their national, multipart study of instructors at a variety of higher educational institutions, Tracie Marcella Addy, Derek Dube, Khadijah A. Mitchell, and Mallory E. SoRelle sought to identify how participants define inclusive teaching and what practices they implement in their own courses. One of the results of this work is a comprehensive resource that… Read more »
What Would You Keep this Fall? Elisheva Cohen on Flexibility in Assignment Deadlines
In this week’s “What Will You Keep this Fall?” video, I am talking with Dr. Elisheva Cohen from the Department of International Studies and Center for the Study of Global Change. Elly shares her approaches to providing flexibility on assignment deadlines and how that both provides students with self-determination and improves the final products she… Read more »
What Will You Keep This Fall? J Duncan on Online Office Hours
In this week’s “What Will You Keep the Fall” video, I am talking with Dr. J Duncan from the Informatics Department about his use of online office hours. Specifically, J shares a bit about how he and his colleagues are using online office hours to consult with students on coding projects, which involves shared screens… Read more »