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Quick teaching tips, topical articles, and collected news from the Stanford teaching and learning ecosystem.
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How to organize learner-centered course material
Options and tips for organizing class materials and resources, using a learner-centered Canvas compatible approach
December 24, 2021
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Strategies if Students are Unable to Attend in Person
Pedagogic recommendations and policy notes for when students are unable to attend in person in Autumn Quarter 2021.
September 13, 2021
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Course Guidance for AY 2021–22
Stanford's Teach Anywhere site has issued extensive guidelines for the return to in-person teaching in Autumn Quarter 2021
September 08, 2021
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September 07, 2021
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Canvas course organization: Recommendations and templates
A guide on how to use and import premade modules and templates to quickly set up a Canvas course
August 24, 2021
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Slack as a teaching tool
Leveraging interaction-rich online discussion boards to optimize instruction
August 24, 2021
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Hosting a Zoom event
Technical setup and organization for a small- to medium-sized remote audience
August 24, 2021
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Telling your students how to use Slack for your class
Recommendations for supporting students using Slack (Part 3 of 3)
July 16, 2021
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Maintaining privacy in non-Canvas Slack workspaces
Take these steps to assure student privacy when using Slack outside of Canvas
July 14, 2021
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Setting up a Slack workspace for your students
Should you use Slack with Canvas or separately from Canvas? (Part 2 of 3)
July 13, 2021
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Best ways to use Slack for teaching
These recommendations will help you determine if Slack is the right tool for your situation (Part 1 of 3)
July 12, 2021
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Online Q&A forum tool Ed Discussion available Summer 2021
Ed Discussion adopted as alternative to Piazza
June 15, 2021
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Promoting Student Metacognition
Teach students how to use any learning activity or assessment to identify their own learning gaps and improve their study strategies.
June 07, 2021
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Empowering student learning in philosophy
CTL's Kritika Yegnashankaran writes for the Blog of the American Philosophical Association (APA) on ways to empower student learning
May 21, 2021
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Podcast: Elena Darling-Hammond and Danny Pimentel share their experience as TAs bridging students and instructors
A peer conversation addressing the evolving role of the TA
May 12, 2021
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How do you create a hands-on laboratory class in an online world?
In the era of COVID-19, a team of chemical engineering educators rethink a capstone lab class for seniors.
May 11, 2021
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Stanford students ‘collapsing distance’ through art
During winter quarter, students enrolled in a class called “Mail Art” created small works of art, remotely, during artist-led workshops, and mailed them to classmates.
May 11, 2021
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Learning to enrich face-to-face instruction
How Online/Pandemic Teaching Practices Can Enrich Face-to-Face Instruction
May 11, 2021
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Teaching statistics online (for the first time)
Stanford professor in psychology Russ Poldrack blogs about teaching—and grading—statistics online for the first time.
May 07, 2021
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Use Canvas to create a Slack workspace for your course
The new Slack integration in Canvas is much easier to manage than previous methods.
April 22, 2021
