Diversity and Inclusion Promoting Intercultural Competence in Your Learning Environment Consider actively engaging the diversity of backgrounds of your learners to enrich the experience for everyone.
Foundations of Learning Promoting Transfer of Knowledge Through Expansive Framing Supporting students’ sense of belonging positively impacts their academic success and overall well-being.
Teaching Strategies Re-envisioning Lectures These four tips will help you design lectures that help students process and make sense of presentation contents
Foundations of Learning Reflect on the Learning Environments You Create It’s important to take stock of how our learning opportunities have unfolded in the past, what patterns we might see, and how this can inform you approach moving forward.
Teaching Strategies Reflecting on the Last Day of Class The last day of class offers a powerful opportunity for students to both bring closure to their overall experience, but also look ahead to how what they have learned can inform their future in specific ways. For this reason, it can be an important beginning.
Teaching Strategies Set the Tone on the First Day of Class in Your Hybrid Course Like many aspects of teaching, helping students develop a sense of belonging and community can impact learning in both face-to-face…
Teaching Strategies Students As Makers: Renewable Assignments "Renewable assignments" add value to the world, instead of being discarded by students once they get their grade.
Assessment Students as Partners in Learning What constitutes a partnership, and what are the benefits? Student-educator partnerships are defined as “[a] relationship in which all involved—students,…
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?
Reflection Teaching Statements Writing your teaching statement serves as a valuable opportunity to reflect on and represent your pedagogical values.
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.
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…
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.
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.
