Planning for a Rapid Transition to Online Instruction
Faculty Retreat 2020 Recap: Going Full TILT
Submitted by Stephanie Whalen, Academy Chair, English & Interdisciplinary Studies This year’s Faculty Retreat theme, Transparency in Learning and Teaching, or TILT, was timely in helping faculty to ensure that the purpose of learning activities, tasks required of...
Essential Online Skills – Recordings of Virtual Sessions
Making the transition to online instruction? Get up to speed fast! Watch a recording of one of the Essential Online Skills sessions hosted by the Academy for Teaching Excellence. The session focuses on essential Blackboard and Collaborate (live, virtual lecture)...
Off-campus Flexible Learning Folder Template
The Academy has created a basic Blackboard folder template to help faculty get through the rest of the semester. We can quickly copy this template into any of your Blackboard course shells as a framework for building out content for the remainder of the semester....
Essential Online Skills Sessions
Virtual and in-person drop-in sessions focused on essential Blackboard and Collaborate (live, virtual lecture) skills will be held March 16 - March 20 during the dates and times below. For the virtual sessions, Google Chrome is the preferred browser. Email the Academy...
GeoTech Center Regional Workshop: Teaching with Geospatial Technologies
Do you use maps in your curriculum? Does your teaching include location or solving spatial problems? Are you interested in adding to your active learning resources? If so, this free summer workshop on teaching with geospatial technologies will be of interest....
Webinar Recording: The Unwritten Rules of College: Creating Transparent Assignments that Increase Students’ Success Equitably
The Academy hosted a webinar on Thursday, January 16, 2020 with the lead Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) researcher, Dr. Mary Ann Winkelmes. In this webinar, Dr. Winkelmes reviewed the findings as well as educational research behind the concept of...