On-Demand Workshop Videos

The summer is an excellent time to jumpstart preparation for the  upcoming academic year. In this Teaching Toolkit workshop, members of  CTL's instructional design team identified intentional steps that  faculty and teaching assistants can take over the summer to successfully  review and revise their courses. Presenters highlighted levels of  knowledge as they relate to learning objectives, assessment, and course  content. The different types of lecture recordings are also featured to  provide some inspiration as faculty begin their course review and  revision process.

The  CoursePlus PathFinder tool is a powerful option for faculty to actively  engage their students with the curriculum while promoting critical  thinking in a student-centric approach. This workshop included an  overview of the tool, highlighting the steps faculty should take in  creating a viable path structure such that students receive meaningful  feedback as they interact with the activity; the pedagogical rationale  of implementing the option; and a first-hand faculty perspective from  Brittany Feijoo (International Health). [Please note that the first few  minutes of this session were not included in the recording.]

Continuing  the theme of Strategies for Moving to a Virtual Classroom, Elizabeth  Stuart, PhD, Associate Dean for Education, facilitated a conversation  with some of our distinguished colleagues, discussing several best  practices arising from the many lessons learned in the first year of the  pivot to the virtual classroom. Faculty reflected on their personal  experiences and discoveries in finding what works best both for the  students and the faculty teams in the "new" online environment we were  all forced to adapt to one year ago.

In this  Teaching Toolkit workshop, CTL highlighted some CoursePlus options for  students' self-regulation as applied to the Universal Design for  Learning (UDL) framework's principle of providing multiple means of  engagement. Our newest CoursePlus feature, In-Lecture Quizzes, was  highlighted as one of the things that may be purposefully incorporated  into a course as a means for students to internalize what they've  learned and to understand how they, as individuals, learn best.

The pandemic  has driven both students and faculty from the classroom and forced all  of us to turn our homes into remote teaching spaces. Now that we have  some experience under our belts --and we have survived a few academic  terms-- how can we expand our thinking to engage learners, and find ways  to re-envision storytelling? In this workshop, Instructional Designers  and Video Producers from the Center for Teaching and Learning showcased  evidence-based innovations that engage learners through unique  storytelling.