Talking Politics in 2020
The context for students’ participation in this fall’s elections is challenging. As Nancy Thomas, Director of the Institute on Higher Education and Democracy at the Tufts University Tisch College of…

Finding the Excitement in Teaching Remotely: Doing CS with a Light Board
Why would you build your own light board in your home office? It sounds exciting but how does it work and why should you consider doing it (or not)? I…

Example of resilient course design for an interactive lecture course
In thinking about fall term course planning, I had two strong responses: 1) I don’t know where to begin, and 2) It’s a lot of work to plan a course,…

Student Experiences from Spring Term
On July 9, The LTC and Academic Techology were delighted to host a conversation about our students’ experiences with remote instruction during spring term. Chris Dallager (Director of Disability Services),…

Why resilient course design?
Even before spring term wrapped up, the LTC and AT team started thinking about how to support faculty in preparing fall term courses. We knew that fall would look different…

Collaborative groups and online annotations
In our ongoing series of posts about what worked well in spring term, Susan Jaret McKinstry (English) shares how she used collaborative groups to do annotations of both text and…

Discussion groups to build community online
This past Monday the LTC offered an opportunity to reflect on spring term and discuss Flower Darby’s book Small Teaching Online. Darby emphasizes the importance of community among learners in…

Reflection assignments to better connect with students
At the end of spring term, I invited faculty to share their experiences with online teaching, what had been challenging, and what had worked well. One of the challenges that…

Teaching and learning with care & hope
Last week, the ACM offered the first of a series of workshops designed to help faculty think about and prepare for teaching this fall. The first workshop, led by Karín Aguilar-San…

Using badges to recognize engagement — Part 2
This is the second post on how faculty are using badges in their online courses this term. (Part 1 is here.) Amy Csizmar Dalal (Computer Science) generously walks me through…

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