The Office of Teaching and Learning blog highlights ideas, practices, and conversations that shape teaching and learning across our institution. Here, you’ll find reflections, insights, and perspectives on learning that inspire innovation and thoughtful practice.
We know that making the change to distance delivery for finals in a short period of time can be a stressful undertaking. To make your work easier, the OTL has some suggestions and resources that will help get you started with making the move to distance testing.
In my limited experience with online teaching, the biggest challenge has been to “adapt” meaningfulness and community from the face-to-face class to Canvas. Given the unprecedented quarter we have ahead of us, meaning and community in teaching feel ever more vital. And yet they’ve perhaps never felt so beyond our reach.
In part two, we offer more advice for helpful tools and strategies for moving online. Once again my colleagues and I in Religious Studies (CAHSS) would like to make a pitch for thinking of the Spring Quarter as offering an opportunity to experiment, to be part of a community of learners with your students, and to do so primarily with some easy-to-set up uses of Canvas that support asynchronous learning (students working at their own pace, within a window of time). While these ideas won’t work for everyone, what we want to stress is that they can promote meaningful, effective learning, grounded in solid pedagogical principles – without exhausting you or your students.
Inclusive teaching practices consider the diverse needs of multiple student identity groups in learning environments. Whether teaching online or in the classroom, it is essential to focus on student intellectual and social development, recognizing the cultural and cognitive differences of diverse students, and how those differences enhance learning.
We know that making the change to distance delivery for finals in a short period of time can be a stressful undertaking. To make your work easier, the OTL has some suggestions and resources that will help get you started with making the move to distance testing.
Over the last few months the rise of AI writing tools generally, and ChatGPT specifically, has been a pervasive topic of conversation, especially in higher education.
The OTL has invited faculty with wide disciplinary expertise to contribute their perspectives on ChatGPT and AI writing tools for our OTL Blog. More faculty blogs to come!
The movie M3GAN (2023) is a tale about an artificially intelligent (AI) humanoid that learns from interactions and, ultimately, becomes a killer. The movie stands in a long line of films that highlight our collective fear that machine learning will eventually replace or destroy us. It is interesting that this movie was released only weeks after ChatGPT, an AI program, gained popularity in the media for its own learning abilities.
Implicit bias can be sneaky. This term refers to the unconscious bias that forms the assumptions that we make about students based on social identity (Imazeki, 2021). These assumptions can be invisible to us, especially in course-level assessment.
MyDU has officially replaced PioneerWeb. The new MyDU platform offers a more organized, user-friendly hub for DU staff and faculty from which many DU necessities can be easily accessed.
Pronouns are typically used to refer to a person when not using their name and are often associated with gender. It is important to not make assumptions about the gender of another person and to use their correct pronouns.
