As we approach Thanksgiving we wanted to highlight ways to help students prepare for the upcoming transitions they may be facing. Some students will experience a disruption at Thanksgiving as they move home and/or experience a change in the format of their courses. Consider using your office hours to help your students prepare for successful… Read more »
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Leading Inclusive Discussions
We have created a series of short videos about inclusive discussion techniques. This blog will explain why it is important to structure discussions for an inclusive classroom, how to determine what needs to be practiced, and gives an overview of the videos. Why structure discussions? Sathy and Hogan (2019) give an analogy for this—an inclusive… Read more »
Teaching During (and after) the Election
An expanded version of this article is available on our website, including sample language to use with your students. 2020 has been a stressful year for everyone in the IU community, and the upcoming presidential election is adding yet another layer of tension to a year that has seen a major health crisis, an economic… Read more »
Quick Tip of the Week: Allow Students to Choose which Zoom Breakout Room to Join
With a recent Zoom update, we can allow students to choose which breakout room they want to join. Instructors could specify topics of discussion for breakout rooms and let students join those based on their interests. Similarly, students could join breakout rooms based on their role in a group project, the type of question they… 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 »
Keep missing our events? Watch our recordings!
When quarantine started in March, I thought about throwing my beloved planner into the garbage. It seemed like plan after plan was cancelled and I was facing a wide-open schedule of nothing. (Cue chirping crickets and a tumbleweed blowing by.) However, as our world quickly transitioned online, it didn’t take long for many of our… Read more »