Category: Teaching

  • Teaching with AI Online Course through Educause

    Teaching with AIApril 7–16 | April 20–29May 5–14 | May 19–28  Register for the dates that work best for you. Teaching with AI is a flexible online program tailored for higher education faculty, instructional designers, and support staff designed to deepen participants’ understanding of AI and empower them to seamlessly integrate it into their curricula. It features live discussion…

  • Faculty AI “Show and Tell” – Looking for Presenters!

    The Spring Lunch & Learn series returns with sessions on teaching, learning, and research. One session, an AI Show and Tell, will explore how AI is being used (or not being used) in courses. We invite faculty to give a short (10-minute) share about one thing related to AI in your teaching or research.  Example topics This is meant to be informal and not perfection, we are…

  • How to Use Retrieval Practice to Enhance Learning

    Full Guide Available Here. Excerpts below. by Pooja Agarwal, Henry Roediger, Mark McDaniel & Kathleen McDermott When we think about learning, we typically focus on getting information into students’ heads. What if, instead, we focus on getting information out of students’ heads? “Retrieval practice” is a learning strategy where we focus on getting information out.…

  • Designing Group Projects

    Recommendations from the Eberly Center at Carnegie Mellon University Excerpts below What are best practices for designing group projects? What is true for individual assignments holds true for group assignments: it is important to clearly articulate your objectives, explicitly define the task, clarify your expectations, model high-quality work, and communicate performance criteria. But group work…

  • Podcast- FOSTERING PEACE, JOY, AND COMMUNITY IN TEACHING AND LEADING, WITH DANNY MANN

    Teaching in Higher Education Podcast with Bonni Stachowiak On Episode 611, I welcome Danny Mann, Executive Director of the University of California Irvine’s Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation, to Teaching in Higher Ed. Danny brings his experience as an educational developer, a passion for fostering peace, joy, and community in higher education, and expertise in…