Faculty Learning Hub

July 3, 2024

Alternatives to graded weekly pre-reading quizzes

Reading Time: 8 minutesMany 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...

Categories Teaching

June 25, 2024

Teaching Tool: Using Intelligent Agents to Foster Student Success

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

Categories 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...

Categories 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 minutesYou’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...

Categories Class Management/In-person/Reflective Practice/Teaching

June 18, 2024

Starting Small with SoTL

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

Categories Teaching

June 13, 2024

“So, what do you think?” Using Think-Pair-Share to Engage ALL Students

Reading Time: 4 minutesOne of the simplest ways to engage your students is the tried-and-tested teaching strategy called ‘Think-Pair-Share’.  If you are newer to teaching, then this should...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Collaboration/Group Work/Teaching

June 12, 2024

Practicing Student-Centered Assessments in Contemporary Classrooms 

Reading Time: 4 minutesContemporary classroom assessment emphasizes ongoing feedback, student involvement, and diverse assessment methods to enhance learning outcomes. It reflects a shift from traditional testing and grading...

Categories Assessing Learning/Student Focused Assessment

June 5, 2024

Designing and Implementing Socio-culturally Responsive and Equitable Classroom Assessments 

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis post was co-authored by Dr. David Baidoo-Anu and Dr. Monsurat Raji, Assessment of Learning Consultants. Given the increased diversities in our classrooms today, student...

Categories Assessment Quick Guides/Diverse Identities

May 30, 2024

Generative AI: Ban it or bring it on? One Professor’s Perspective

Reading Time: 4 minutesMichael Quartermain, School of Business, reflects on the benefits and drawbacks of AI adoption at the college.

Categories AI/Faculty Services

May 30, 2024

AI-Adapting Activities and Assignments: Part 1 of 2

Reading Time: 6 minutesIdeas for adapting activities and assessments for the closed or prohibited use of AI

Categories AI/AI and Assessment/AI and Learning