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Learning through community service
When students work with social organisms, everyone benefits.
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Memes — we got that
How I turned an internet trend into a teaching tool.
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Bring more joy into your teaching
A new tool helps instructors appreciate the positive in pedagogy.
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Emojis … as rhetoric?
A new course and lab at U of T Mississauga delve into these digital images 😀
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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.
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Is effective online learning bad for the environment?
Teaching may be more rewarding when students’ cameras are on, but it comes at a cost.
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Syllabus design boot camp, day 5: finishing touches
In the final stages of syllabus design, don’t forget to include your course policies.
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Syllabus design boot camp, day 4: create the schedule
Creating a workable course schedule for you and your students.
