Teaching

January 13, 2025

Validating Student Responses During Class

Reading Time: 6 minutesWe’ve all been there… It’s the start of class, let’s say week 5, and you’re engaging students in a pre-assessment activity–asking them to recall what...

Communicating With Students/Equity and Inclusion/Teaching

January 9, 2025

Navigating Religious Accommodation Requests

Reading Time: 7 minutesBy: Dr. Sara Kafashan and Dr. Lauren Spring, with Sandrine Uwimana Some faculty may feel caught off guard if/when student requests for religious accommodations come...

Teaching

January 8, 2025

Engaging Students with an Eco-Friendly Curriculum

Reading Time: 3 minutesBob Carder – Professor in Conestoga’s Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technician program My career path has been varied and includes food service, trades, management,...

Active Learning and Engagement/Faculty Stories

January 7, 2025

Backwards Design Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide

Reading Time: 3 minutesAs you begin planning your asynchronous course, it’s important to think about what makes an online course effective. Successful courses are accessible, flexible, engaging, and...

Lesson and Course Planning/Lesson Planning/Online Asynchronous

December 19, 2024

Generative AI Guidebook for Teaching

Reading Time: < 1 minuteVisit the GenAI Guidebook for Teaching, a digital resource to aid faculty with AI adoption in teaching, learning, assessment, and research on teaching.

AI/Getting Started with AI/Teaching

December 18, 2024

How Gamification Supports Learning

Reading Time: 6 minutesGamification is incorporating game elements into non-game contexts. In education, this often involves using game elements like points, badges, leaderboards, and challenges to make learning...

Gamification/Teaching/Tech For Teaching

December 15, 2024

Universal Design for Learning: An Introduction

Reading Time: 3 minutesThink back to when you were in school – elementary through post-secondary. How often were you given opportunities to showcase how you learned that was...

Teaching/Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

December 10, 2024

AI Savvy Rubrics for Writing Assignments

Reading Time: 4 minutesConsiderations for designing and updating rubrics to reflect AI use permissions and a repository of examples of analytic and checklist rubric items

AI/AI and Assessment/Rubrics and Marking/Teaching

December 4, 2024

Making Learning Comprehensible: Build it, Model it!

Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat does making learning comprehensible mean? Are you being understood by your students and helping them retain information they are learning? Scaffolding and Modelling foster engagement and increase student success.

Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

November 26, 2024

From Anonymous to Acknowledged: The Benefits of Using Student Names in Teaching

Reading Time: 4 minutesEarly in my teaching career, a student told me that I was the only professor who had so far remembered her request to call her...

Build Community/Class Management/Teaching

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