Hi everyone,
I wanted to take a moment to highlight the five most recent posts from the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL) blog. As you'll see, it's an insightful and timely resource, written by CITL team members:
In search of an invitation to bring all participants in the classroom (instructor included) to a collective starting point, Claire Miller turned to 2019 MacArthur Genius Award recipient Lynda Barry.
Matt Barton explores better methods to engage students online, especially when it comes to asking for more than passively watching videos.
As we work to overcome the isolation that characterized 2020 and 2021, Daniela Gutierrez Lopez proposes we try to reach out from feelings of stagnation and take this opportunity to build a culture of care on campus.
Do you have a student who stopped showing up to class but is still enrolled? Have you emailed them numerous times expressing concern and not heard back? Claire Miller outlines two steps to alert others and help connect students with support resources.
In lab courses, it's not always easy to provide students with extra opportunities to complete missed labs and/or for students to take advantage of them. Madeleine Gonin asked several IU lab instructors, as well as instructional and instructional technology colleagues, to share strategies.
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