In this post we will explore various options for finding and creating affordable course materials for your students. In 2017, the Babson Survey Group published survey results from over 2,700 faculty representing all disciplines and institutions spanning two-year, four-year, public, and private institutions in every Carnegie classification. When asked which factors were important or very… Read more »
Over the next few months, the CITL’s Service-Learning Program will be sharing a series of posts on the Foundations of Service-Learning. For more posts, click here. Service-learning (SL) begins with John Dewey’s understanding of higher education: Universities are tasked with helping students become active, knowledgeable citizens. SL enables students to discuss issues in their community… Read more »
Welcome to our new instructors at IUB! We hope that you are settling in well and getting excited about your fall courses. In this post we share strategies and tools for making the start of the semester as productive as possible for you and your students. Prepare your Canvas site We highly recommend that you… Read more »
As graduate student instructors, our classrooms are cultural intersections. In this setting, we often face barriers with student engagement and identifying diverse educational resources. In order to support graduate students throughout the instructor experience, graduate students needs spaces that prepare them with knowledge and skills for cross-cultural experiences inside and outside of the classroom. Moreover,… Read more »
Graduate students at Indiana University Bloomington have many opportunities to learn about, practice, improve upon, reflect on, and document their teaching activities. These teaching development activities are found in many places around campus – from programs in individual departments to centers like the Graduate Mentoring Center (GMC) and the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning… Read more »
This is the first post in a series about how to flip your classes, an approach that moves some content delivery outside of the classroom in order to provide in-class time for practice in applying that information to build new knowledge. It is suggested that, like all new instructional approaches, you try flipping one class… Read more »