These posts focus mostly on pedagogy tips
This post is guest authored by Marie Waung I am a puzzler – a person who solves puzzles for fun. My favorite puzzles are those that require a re-framing of the question or problem to… Read More »Letters Across a Remote Divide: Helping Faculty Say Yes to Letters of Rec for Students They’ve Only Met Online
Photo by kike vega on Unsplash This semester, the questions about how to teach effectively in times of COVID continue and trying to find the best approach to fit our current situation is still on… Read More »Teaching In-person and online simultaneously is not easy (but also not impossible)
One of the neat things to come out of my Hub affiliateship is Autumm gently pushing me to finish a project I started a few summers ago and then unceremoniously dropped: an open source worksheet… Read More »Making Calculus Group Work Easier: Worksheet Generator!
Fall 2021 marked the comeback to the classroom for many classes at the UM-Dearborn campus after being away for many months and at this point in the semester, it is a good time to reflect… Read More »Applying James Lang’s Ideas for Small Teaching
If you haven’t already seen it, I recommend Sarah’s post: Checking in: How to collect and respond to student feedback online which details the why and how of collecting student feedback. This brief post is… Read More »Customize this Form to Collect your own Student Feedback
This post was compiled and co-written by Belen Garcia and Carla Vecchiola This August our campus faces a bit of the uncertainty that other universities faced last August. Because our campus made the decision early… Read More »Masking in the Classroom
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Giving meaningful feedback to your students is an art and it is another way to keep students engaged in your class. Students need constructive feedback from faculty and instructors to… Read More »The Art of Giving Meaningful Feedback
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Office hours are an important part of any course, and provide students the opportunity to ask questions and get to know their instructor. As teaching and learning have transitioned online,… Read More »Easy ways to make time for students
Read time estimation 6 minutes | There are many approaches to instructional design and course building and I don’t want to give the impression that what I am going to write about here is one… Read More »3 D’s of Course Building
I was excited that I had the opportunity to present an interactive workshop called Avoid the Gloom and Doom of Zoom on Tuesday the 19th of 2021. Since it was interactive workshop recording would have… Read More »Avoid the Gloom and Doom of Zoom