In continued support of campus goals surrounding collaborative and active learning, the CITL coordinates the placement of classes into the following innovative teaching spaces, and is accepting applications to teach in these rooms during the Spring 2022 semester: The Collaboration Café (Cedar Hall AC C102) is designed to support discussion-based collaborative classes of up to 49 students. The Collaborative… Read more »
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Collaborative Whiteboarding for More Engaging Synchronous Sessions
If you’re struggling to find new ways to engage your students in synchronous online class sessions, you’re not alone. Jennifer Terrell and Chase McCoy, instructors who teach a large lower-division course in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, were also looking for new activities to help their students learn course concepts in synchronous… Read more »
For Teaching Faculty: Preparing for Promotion
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 »
Leveraging Seminar-Style Dynamics for a Close Knit Online Course
Throughout consultations and events this fall, instructors have shared that the “magic” of their typical, in-person class wasn’t as strong in their online or hybrid courses. The common thread among all the stories is that instructors are missing the closeness felt among students in the class. These stories drive me as a graduate student studying… Read more »
Quick Tip: Use Canvas Modules to Organize Access to Your Course Content
In Canvas, Modules are like folders of links to course site activities and resources that help instructors present related items in one place. For example, in Module “Wk 4 Health Analysis Charting,” students will find direct links to all the readings, lecture videos, images, charts, etc. they need to learn about working with health analysis… 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 »