This post is by Lisa Kurz, Cassie Coble, Allen Davis, J Duncan, Olga Kalentzidou, Cody Kirkpatrick, Margaret Lion, and Katie Metz In January the CITL offered a series of webinars (facilitated by the co-authors of this blog post) on career development for teaching faculty, covering topics such as writing a teaching statement, summarizing student evaluation… Read more »
Quick Tip: Gathering Feedback from Students
If you began teaching online in January, you’re now well into the spring semester, and it’s a good time to gather some informal feedback from your students. You might ask your students for feedback about the first few weeks of the course, for example, especially if you transitioned from online to a face-to-face or hybrid… Read more »
Quick Tip: Learning Students’ Names
An easy way to build community in your online course is to learn and use students’ names. This is easy to do in synchronous online classes because participants’ names are displayed with their pictures. If a student’s preferred name doesn’t match their name on the roster, invite them to use the “Rename” feature in Zoom to… Read more »
Quick tip of the week: Use Google docs to hold your students accountable for group work
If you have students discuss course content, analyze case studies, or solve problems in small groups or in Zoom breakout rooms, you can hold them accountable for their work by giving them space in a Google doc to record their discussion. Create a Google doc with the assignment prompt and a clearly defined space for… Read more »
Quick tip of the week: Encourage Your Students to Come to Virtual Office Hours
One way to connect with your students, particularly in an online course, is to invite them to come to your (virtual) office hours. Students are often shy or reluctant to come to office hours, so think about rebranding them as “coffee breaks” or “casual chats.” Or invite your students to sign up for brief time… Read more »
Teaching an Intensive Three-Week Course
If you’re planning to teach a course during the three-week intensive session at the end of the fall 2020 semester, you may have lots of questions about course design and teaching strategies. Should your intensive course be simply a shorter version of a conventional 16-week course? What particular issues should you keep in mind as… Read more »