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Classes at my institution started last week, which means that my co-teacher and I greeted just over 150 students in our biochemistry class. When I start the semester, I’m always struck by how many students there are, and how a big class like this would not have brought out the best in me. I thrived in the small classes I experienced in college, where I got to know my professors and my colleagues pretty well, and I think that I would have found a class of 150 intimidating and perhaps isolating.
The American Historical Association (AHA) has received a $1.65 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to partner with the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education and 11 institutional partners to lead “History Gateways,” an evaluation and substantial revision of introductory college-level history courses to better serve students from all backgrounds and align more effectively with the future needs of a complex society.
Each of these resources includes a video or text demonstrating or describing the activity or exercise for community-building. We also include descriptive text, slides you can reuse/adapt where relevant, and links to additional resources. We also show you how much time, what kind of resources you need, and different variations on the activity to help you adapt it for your purposes.
There’s never a bad time to re-examine and rethink how to write your syllabus. This guide walks you through everything you need to know, with specific tips and strategies, to craft an effective syllabus.
ROLE-PLAYING GAMES FOR ENGAGED LEARNING.
ENGAGE. IMAGINE. INQUIRE.
WITH REACTING TO THE PAST.
Disabled And Here is a disability-led stock image and interview series celebrating disabled Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC).
This portal provides healthcare students and professionals with an experiential learning opportunity for practising client care in a safe virtual environment. Here you can access a number of simulation experiences that will engage you in clinical decision making.
We continue to navigate a world that has been both fundamentally changed by a pandemic and is now making a more intentional effort to end systemic racism, social injustice, and inequality. We’ve curated these resources to help you create the inclusive learning environments students need to study, discuss, and tackle these challenges.
Searchlights and Sunglasses is about journalism and change. You do not need be a bleeding-edge technologist to understand this book; it’s for the middle of the bell curve, especially for the journalism educators who by now should be changing but can’t seem to get started. In a way, the book is like a giant pair of sunglasses, filtering the endless beams of “new information” about the future of news. Thanks to a team organized by the nation’s oldest journalism school, the University of Missouri, with the touch of a button the book becomes a classroom edition. In this “learning layer,” you will find lessons, discussions, activities, videos, links and research assignments designed to help teachers and students get the most out of a digital book experience.
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Use VOA's Pro-nounce to correctly pronounce names and places quickly and easily. VOA's pronunciation guide has helped people around the world pronounce challenging words in the news since 2000.
HowToPronounce.com is a crowdsourced audio pronunciation website that helps you learn how to say words, names and phrases contributed by native speakers.
Learning students’ names—and helping them learn each other’s names—is an important step toward creating a welcoming course climate. Research shows that students appreciate when an instructor makes an effort to learn names, while a lack of effort can make the instructor seem remote and unapproachable (Rubrecht, 2006). In particularly large classes, it may seem impossible to learn every student’s name, but even learning some names will foster a more caring and inclusive atmosphere.
The goal of the Pedagogic Service is encourage educators to reflect critically on their own teaching practices and to support them in exploring new pedagogies. Building on a successful model in the geosciences, we have created a library of pedagogic methods and a collection of activities which exemplify each method. The complete library is available through the Pedagogy in Action portal. Additionally, the library is used by our partners to create customized pedagogic portals for their own websites. Each portal links together information about pedagogic methods with examples of their use.
From your hobby to your career, your class notes to your final exam, your mood board to your runway show, padlets help you organize your life.
This project seeks to advance educational practices and models of more effective teaching evaluation at universities. In addition to developing tools and practices for improved evaluation, we are advancing understanding of the institutional change process for the adoption and integration of new approaches. The overall project encourages the use of evaluation, incentive, and reward processes as a lever to promote greater use of evidence-based teaching within universities as complex systems.
Put imagination to work
MURAL is a digital workspace for visual collaboration, where everyone can do their best work together.
Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to more than 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
A free library of images celebrating women’s lives and their work in 11 countries around the world • Learn more
FLOE provides the resources to personalize how we each learn and to address barriers to learning. Learners learn differently, and today’s society needs diverse, self-aware, life-long learners. FLOE supports learners, educators and curriculum producers in achieving one-size-fits-one learning design for the full diversity of learners, leveraging the variants made possible by Open Education Resources (OER).
The Open Pedagogy Project Roadmap is a module-based workshop that will assist you in planning, finding support for, sharing, and sustaining your open pedagogy project, regardless of its size or scope. The Roadmap will take you through four modules which will guide you through the 5 Ss of open pedagogy projects: Scope, Support, Students, Sharing, and Sustainability.
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Scoop.it!
Slides from Dr. Stephen Frye who presented this workshop on Adult Learners in Spring 2018. Includes principles of adult learners and other information.