As we finish the spring semester, it’s time to consider the design of your fall 2020 face-to-face course content delivery as you migrate to an online or blended format. In this blog, I’ll focus on a couple of basic tips for your videos with the aim of supporting engagement with content. Hopefully, you have a… Read more »
Module 1: Introduction to Blended Learning Will your course be online this Fall? Will you teach on-campus using a mix of virtual and in-person class time? Perhaps you’re still awaiting news of what is safely feasible for the upcoming semester. We don’t know when we will return to our campus classrooms, but we do have… Read more »
Small Teaching Online: Lessons from Part 1 of the Book As we’re preparing to teach summer course online, many of us are looking for easy tips and tricks to improve our instructional practices. The CITL has been sponsoring reading groups of Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes by Flower Darby and James… Read more »
Each year, we provide you with a list of recent teaching & learning related books that CITL staff have read over the year and would recommend to others for summer reading. This summer I’d like to change it up a bit. Online instruction has become a timely concern for faculty & students. While you did… Read more »
Technological advances, growing disciplinary knowledge bases, and a changing student population have fueled many changes over the last 200 years in what the college classroom looks like. As faculty members, we are no longer limited to the four walls of the classroom and a chalkboard. Now we can connect with our students inside the classroom,… Read more »
In the last part of this series, we filled our in-class framework with activities that allow our students to collaborate on the advanced learning objectives to achieve mastery. For this final part, we’ll be designing a pre-class session focusing on our basic learning objectives that students complete on their own. Our primary goal is to… Read more »