Faculty Learning Hub

July 21, 2024

Motivating Your Students to Learn: What Works, What Doesn’t

Reading Time: 6 minutes Think back to a time when you were really motivated to learn something, particularly when you felt the activity was engaging and joyful. It could...

Teaching/Theory and Practice/Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

July 18, 2024

Getting Started with Copilot in Your Class

Reading Time: 6 minutes Why get started with Copilot in your class? Exposure helps students get better at using Copilot and other generative AI chatbot tools. It also helps...

AI/AI and Teaching/Teaching

July 10, 2024

The 10-Minute Countdown: Ensuring Seamless Classroom Wrap-Up

Reading Time: 3 minutes Managing the end of a class efficiently is a crucial skill for any professor, ensuring a smooth transition for the next faculty and maintaining a...

Lesson Planning/Teaching

July 10, 2024

How to be Compassionate without being a “Yes” Person

Reading Time: 3 minutes By Dr. Nasreen Sultana, Teaching and Learning Consultant Erica teaches a course where students come from diverse backgrounds. She has both domestic and international students...

Build Community/Communicating With Students/Reflective Practice/Teaching

July 8, 2024

Explaining Content Effectively

Reading Time: 4 minutes Thanks to Nancy Nelson, PhD. Have you ever struggled to explain a complex concept to someone new to your field? You’re not alone. Even experts...

Active Learning and Engagement/Teaching

July 3, 2024

Alternatives to graded weekly pre-reading quizzes

Reading Time: 8 minutes Many faculty wish that students would engage more meaningfully with assigned class pre-readings and other materials. When students show up to class not having spent...

Teaching

June 25, 2024

Teaching Tool: Using Intelligent Agents to Foster Student Success

Reading Time: 2 minutes Learn how you can use the eConestoga tool Intelligent Agents to support your teaching.

Communicating With Students/eConestoga/Teaching

June 24, 2024

Planning for Post-Assessments: So…What did they Learn?

Reading Time: 4 minutes “It’s Not What We Teach; It’s What They Learn” – Alfie Kohn Wondering what students have learned in the lesson you’ve just delivered? Have students...

Assessing Learning/Giving Feedback/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

June 24, 2024

Ready, Set, Teach! Navigating pre-class jitters and set-up

Reading Time: 3 minutes You’ve got your lesson planned, your water bottle filled, and your slides ready, but still, you’ve got butterflies in your stomach as you approach the...

Class Management/In-person/Reflective Practice/Teaching

June 18, 2024

Starting Small with SoTL

Reading Time: 4 minutes Attribution for photo by David Iskander on Unsplash Transform Your Classroom into a Learning Lab Opportunities for SoTL exist everywhere in the educational spaces in...

Teaching