Thanks to Madeleine Gonin for collaborating on this blog post. If you joined us this summer in reading about teaching online, you know that students need opportunities to communicate with you and their peers. In particular, it’s important to get feedback from your students about their experience in your course. An easy way to gather… Read more »
Teaching STEM Labs Online: Reflections from IU Instructors
Recently the CITL has hosted a series of “Coffee Talk” events for instructors—informal opportunities for instructors to gather and discuss challenges they share, as well as solutions or strategies they’ve tried in their classes. This blog post describes ideas that arose in a Coffee Talk focused on teaching STEM labs online. Format, schedule, and logistics… Read more »
Small Teaching Online: Lessons from Part 2 of the Book
This is the second in a series of blog posts based on CITL’s reading group Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes, by Flower Darby and James M. Lang, which is available to instructors through IUCAT. Our second meeting of the reading group focused on Part 2 of the book, called Teaching Humans…. Read more »
What To Do If You’re Zoombombed
You’ve probably heard of “zoombombing,” a kind of cyberattack in which unwanted guest(s) disrupt Zoom meetings. Oftentimes, zoombombers are interested in cheap pranks or distracting meeting hosts and participants. But on rare occasions, their distractions are more malicious: offensive images, hate speech, or pornographic material. Whether unamusing pranks or malicious trolling, zoombombing is an unwanted… Read more »
Gathering Feedback: Alternatives to the OCQ in Spring 2020
This post is part of our Keep Teaching blog series meant to help IU instructors move their classes online quickly due to COVID-19. For more detailed resources, see the Keep Teaching website. Normally, at the end of the semester you’d expect to receive feedback from your students through the Online Course Questionnaire (OCQ), evaluating your… Read more »
Creating Lessons and Units: Packaging Course Content for an Online Setting
This post is part of our Keep Teaching blog series meant to help IU instructors move their classes online quickly due to COVID-19. For more detailed resources, see the Keep Teaching website. As many of you transition our courses online, we encourage you to think of how you can create units for your course content. Rather than having… Read more »