Category: Teaching/Learning
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Teaching Resources – Fall Semester Startup Quick Links
This short guide lists essential teaching resources for getting started in the fall semester each year. Upcoming Events Contacting Your Class The Registrar maintains a registrar’s instructor systems page you can use to contact your class, which you will use for grading and other tasks. You can often access your class list and the email tool before…
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Workshop Materials: Cultivating a Habit of Reflective Practice in Your Work
This workshop is something I developed for use with the MSU COLA Fellows graduate summer program. I’ve converted it to an asynchronous version here for those who couldn’t attend the workshop or others who come across it. Workshop Outline This workshop consists of four main parts, with a reflection point separating each part. You may…
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An Introduction to Visually Mapping Curriculum
Visually mapping out curriculum is a way to better understand your course, program, or major and can help you make decisions on curriculum development or changes, assist students with navigating programs, and/or help you talk about your program. This post outlines a short workshop on visually mapping curriculum. You can use the post to guide…
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Developing a Reflective Practice Workshop 2023
This workshop on Developing a Reflective Practice was offered in May 2023 for the MSU COLA Fellows. It was converted to this asynchronous format for those who weren’t able to attend. Workshop Outline This workshop consists of four main parts, with a reflection point separating each part. You may use the reflection prompt individually, or…
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Planning for a Blended Approach to Teaching Post-Crisis at MSU
Returning to campus after the events of Feb 13 we find ourselves in a space of continuing to process our own feelings and emotions, caring for others, and providing opportunities and space for all of us to return to our teaching and learning routines. MSU has provided guidance to our community suggesting that we use…
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Identifying Process Artifacts in our Work: Part of the Surfacing Our Work series
My colleague Shannon Kelly and I recently started a series of posts on the process of “surfacing our work.” The series focuses on the ways that, as educational technology professionals, we can work toward sharing more of our work that is in process and publishing work that has not traditionally had a publication outlet. The…
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10 Tips for Creating and Offering Online Courses
This post started as a presentation that I gave as part of the Foundations of Successful Online Teaching and Learning series my colleagues and I created as part of our outreach work to K12 schools across Michigan. The tips are a few that I’ve identified in my 20+ years of experience building and teaching…
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Resources for K12 Teachers Moving Online
Earlier this summer my colleague Jeremy Van Hof and I began to work with administrators and teachers in Okemos Public Schools to plan for and develop training materials for supporting K12 teachers moving courses online during the COVID-19 pandemic. The result was a set of materials and accompanying workshops we titled the Foundations of Successful…
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Model for Professional Development and Course Quality in Online Teaching
The Challenge: What Resources to Draw On When Planning Online Learning When developing online courses it is often difficult, as an instructor, to determine which resources to connect with at different points of the process. From an administrative perspective, it can also be difficult to determine which supports to invest in and plan for, in…
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AAN Panel on Learning Assessment
On Friday 2/16 I was part of a panel sponsored by the Academic Advancement Network on Learning Assessment. Fellow panelists Stephen Thomas, Justin Bruner, Becky Matz and I were asked the following questions with conversation among us and the group following. The word “assessment” means different things to different people and roles. What does learning…