Teaching

Because a picture is worth a thousand words! Discover a set of posters illustrating notions related to teaching and learning.

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities.

Part of a series where members of the Equity Unbound community contribute their tips for intentionally equitable and engaging facilitation. Join us for MYFest and learn more at: https://myfest.equityunbound.org

The U of A ePortfolio Institute has debuted several new resources, including an ePortfolio website dedicated to helping students and faculty use the WordPress platform to build their portfolios.

A number of responses focused on the idea of mastery.

At the end of Fall 2023, we asked students to share the names of any instructors they thought had used Canvas particularly well. We were thrilled to see dozens of ...

Peter Felten presents three practices that will make relationship-rich education possible at a large scale.

Students with alphabetically lower-ranked names often receive lower grades than their peers, according to a recent study from the University of Michigan.

A piece co-authored by my students and me

We asked professors, students, and high-school counselors.

Explore Robert Gagne's instructional design principles and how to apply them to your eLearning course, training sessions and more in this in-depth guide.

Note: This post is based on a LinkedIn post I shared on April 2, 2024. I have created this blog post as another option for interacting with the “inclusive teaching umbrella” idea. Image…

Please join UC Online for another webinar showcasing pedagogical tools and techniques used to shape modern educational outcomes.Presenters will give “lightni...

And generative AI is the thing that broke it, Zach Justus and Nik Janos write.

This is the fifth post of the Carefully Curated Series for the Spring 2024 semester. I had the chance to visit my undergraduate university campus this past weekend. It was so beautiful, and the vib…

Education experts call it ‘grade inflation’. This comes amid reports of more high distinctions being awarded at some Australian universities.

Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning is a podcast from the Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning. Our mission is to encourage instructors,…

How do we encourage you? Through Empathy, Awareness, Presence, and Trust. See more and download our infographic to share with colleagues.

by Liz Norell, associate director of instructional support In our August 8 blog, we shared a preview of our September 8 workshop on supporting neurodivergent students, including the following definitions of key terms: Neurodivergent: a person with a brain that processes information in a way different from most individuals.

This year's OER conference is hosted in the Munster Technological University (MTU) in partnership with the Association for Learning Technology (ALT). The con...

Traditional student evaluations of teaching miss the mark in a number of key ways. Here is a simple, useful tool that might serve as a replacement.

We review how stress induction, time pressure manipulations and math anxiety can interfere with or modulate selection of problem-solving strategies (hencefor...

Using such evaluations reflects colleges’ lack of a true commitment to diversity, writes Joanna Wolfe, who offers three actions institutions should take sooner rather than later to change the situation.

Behind students' increasing pull toward extracurriculars