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Teaching experience in the academic job market
“Evidence of teaching effectiveness” adds to the ever-growing demands on graduate students.
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Designing a pathway through our post-pandemic teaching challenges
How to support the teaching mission at your institution.
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What I really teach
University studies provide long-term life skills that employers value: critical thinking, creativity, adaptability and self-regulation.
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Learning-centric programming: strategies to support meaningful engagement
Some practical strategies to design an experience with a clear purpose woven with meaningful engagement.
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How pharmacy education is changing to meet the needs of LGBTQ+ patients
Sexual minorities are still experiencing barriers to care, says a professor overhauling curriculum at Dalhousie University.
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Questioning the ethics of online proctoring
Instead of relying on a ‘technological fix,’ we need to ask what drives students to cheat in the first place.
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What the pandemic taught us: mental health is a necessary condition for learning
How a course on the science of learning evolved into the importance of mental health in academic skills development.
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Meet the new med schools
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine is inspiring other universities to prioritize social accountability, advocate for health-policy change, and serve communities in need.
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Understanding and preventing plagiarism
An international partnership has been established to better understand plagiarism among graduate students.
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How instructional designers enabled the great shift to digital learning amid COVID-19
Particularly in the initial phase of the public health emergency, these unsung university staff did most of the heavy lifting to rework face-to-face courses.
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Taking the university experience outside
The COVID-19 pandemic created a new way of learning in higher education: outdoor classes.
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Is sharing recorded lectures all at once as effective as releasing them week by week?
A cognitive science professor finds little difference between using “the Netflix model” versus “the Disney+ model.”
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How to get students to read your syllabus
Use the first class of the term to show students how to use the syllabus and create a plan to direct them back to the syllabus over the semester.
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Building an effective classroom community online
Early career instructors should feel encouraged to extend and innovate in the virtual classroom.
