Diversity and Inclusion Supporting an Inclusive Course Climate in the Heat of Challenging Moments Course climate is at the core of creating a classroom environment that fosters learning for every student.
Foundations of Learning Supporting Learner Responsibility There is a balance to strike between supportive "scaffolding" and the motivating experience of choice.
Online Learning Supporting Learning in Zoom If you are a teaching assistant (TA), supporting Zoom may be a formal part of your role. If you are…
CATLR Tips and Resources Supporting Online Learners While classroom norms are baked into the student experience, the online learning environment is unfamiliar for many students and may…
Diversity and Inclusion Supporting Ourselves & Our Learners in Difficult Times How can we support our learners in difficult times—and in ways that integrate with our own personal needs and pedagogical approaches?
Experiential Learning Teaching a Dialogue of Civilizations Course CATLR and the Global Experience Office partnered to generate this resource, integrating insights from experienced Dialogue instructors and learning science literature.
Online Learning Teaching Presence in the Community of Inquiry Framework What is "teaching presence"? Faculty whose teaching experience has all occurred in a physical classroom may wonder what it means…
Reflection Teaching Statements Writing your teaching statement serves as a valuable opportunity to reflect on and represent your pedagogical values.
Diversity and Inclusion Teaching Strategies to Support First-Generation College Students Explore teaching strategies that support first-generation students’ success and are easy to implement.
Teaching Strategies Teaching Summer and Condensed Courses Compressed course formats challenge instructors to make thoughtful and intentional adjustments to ensure that learning goals are being effectively met.
Teaching Strategies Team-Based Learning An increasingly popular form of collaborative learning that solves most of the problems associated with traditional group work.
CATLR Tips and Resources The Benefits of Learning With Colleagues: The Case of Teaching With Tablets It takes practice to use a tablet for your teaching activities. Read about the year-long pilot project with benefits for faculty and students.
Diversity and Inclusion The Benefits of Mindfulness on Learning Mindfulness practices have measurable positive effects on student attention, focus, creativity, and compassion.
Foundations of Learning The Power of Affirming One’s Values A values affirmation is one of the most studied self-affirmation interventions because it is through the lens of personal values that the self is evaluated.
Foundations of Learning The Power of Self-Explanation By helping your students understand some of the research on learning, you can both improve their performance and build their capacity to be self-directed learners.
Foundations of Learning Three Principles for Using Peer-Feedback Among Learners Sometimes the person who has just learned something is the very best teacher of it, so peer-feedback can be effective in ways instructor feedback cannot.
Diversity and Inclusion Traditional Exams for In-Person and Remote Students Considerations for traditional exams Whether you are teaching a Hybrid NUflex course or an on-ground course in which some students…
Assessment Transparent Assignment Design When we communicate how and why students are learning course content in certain ways, we are being transparent about the…
Foundations of Learning Two-Stage Exams By building in a second, collaborative phase to the exam process, two-stage exams leverage individual accountability as well as greater learning with fellow students.
Foundations of Learning Use Students’ Prior Knowledge to Build Motivation Students’ prior knowledge about--and experience with--a topic can be leveraged to help kindle a desire to learn more.
Foundations of Learning Using Analogies to Help Others Learn Analogies and metaphors can be an effective way to help others map familiar relationships with onto new material, as long as they are not stretched too far.
Assessment Using Assessments to Enhance Learning Assessments can deeply inform and enhance learning, both within the semester and in subsequent terms.
Online Learning What Does It Take to Design an Online Course? Even when a course is well established, transitioning it into an online format typically involves rethinking aspects of the structure, flow, and learning strategies to take advantage of the online environment.
Online Learning What Factors Contribute to a High Quality Online Course? CATLR’s Online Course Design Learning Potential Rubric is designed to help faculty operationalize evidence-based learning principles in online courses.
Experiential Learning What Is Active Learning? An overview of how we learn from what we do and some familiar activities that illuminate the importance of activity to engaged learning.
Diversity and Inclusion Writing Feedback for Multilingual Learners When providing written feedback to multilingual learners, limit sentence-level feedback to errors that are serious and treatable.
Experiential Learning Written Assignments From planning to feedback to integration, we can help students integrate their prior knowledge across the process of writing assignments.