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Tag: Student Experience

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    College Student Mental Health: What Instructors Should Know

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    Professor of Psychology Kris Vespia addresses the mental health crisis our students are facing and provides some context on how poor mental health can create barriers for students’ success. She then offers practical suggestions and resources instructors can use to better support their students in need, reminding instructors that they don’t need to be experts…

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    Setting the Tone for a Welcoming Classroom with a Liquid Syllabus

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    At times, the syllabus can feel like a relic from a different age of academia: a formal, lengthy document that reads like a legal contract and lacks personality. In an attempt to make syllabi more engaging and student-friendly, some instructors have come up with clever ways of reimagining their syllabi. One example of this is…

  • Article: Applying Flexible Teaching Practices in a Post-COVID World

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    Though the widespread and hard-hitting effects of the pandemic spurred a call for increased flexibility in teaching, some students face many barriers to their learning even during “normal” academic semesters. In this article, we explore ways flexible teaching is just as important in a post-COVID world as it is now, and how we might continue…

  • Designing with Equity in Mind: Reflections and Assessment of an Online Chemistry Class

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    With the abrupt transition to online learning in Spring 2020, followed by a summer of reflection guided by CATL’s Pivotal Pedagogies online course, Associate Professor Bree Lybbert found herself feeling inspired to design her new online class for Fall 2020 with equity in mind. In this post, Bree walks through how she applied some of…

  • 10 Tips for Reworking Online Discussions

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    Tips collected by Luke Konkol We often hear that asynchronous online discussions “just don’t seem to work.” The reasons why run the gambit from feeling like busy-work for students to simply being too much to read. This post shares ten quick ideas (in no particular order) instructors might consider to tweak their online discussions and…