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Quick teaching tips, topical articles, and collected news from the Stanford teaching and learning ecosystem.
- June 15, 2021
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Online Q&A forum tool Ed Discussion available Summer 2021
- Ed Discussion adopted as alternative to Piazza
- Tech Tutorial, Class Management
- June 07, 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.
- Class Management
- May 21, 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
- Inclusion & Equity
- May 12, 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
- Teaching Assistants
- May 11, 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.
- Discipline-Specific, Asynchronous Activity
- 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.
- Asynchronous Activity, Discipline-Specific
- May 11, 2021
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The Best of Both Online and F2F Instruction
- How Online/Pandemic Teaching Practices Can Enrich Face-to-Face Instruction
- Class Management, Synchronous Activity, Inclusion & Equity
- May 07, 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.
- Asynchronous Activity, Class Management, Discipline-Specific
- April 22, 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.
- Tech Tutorial
- April 22, 2021
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Enable and use SCRIBE in Canvas
- Students can use SCRIBE in Canvas to convert text into audio files.
- Accessibility, Inclusion & Equity, Tech Tutorial
- February 09, 2021
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What can I do today to create a more inclusive community in CS?
- Concrete and actionable advice to help instructors build a more diverse and inclusive community within Computer Science
- Discipline-Specific, Inclusion & Equity, Interviews
- January 28, 2021
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Course Design Equity and Inclusion Rubric
- This rubric developed in BIOE applies frameworks of inclusive and equitable course design to assess what's happening in a course and potential improvements
- Inclusion & Equity
- December 08, 2020
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CTL syllabus template
- A customizable document containing reflection prompts, and links to resources and policies you may find useful as you craft your syllabus.
- University Resources, Inclusion & Equity
- November 20, 2020
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Successful online study groups
- Student Voices, Class Management
- November 18, 2020
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ACT to sustain learning through current events
- Instructional practices for supporting your students and their course learning through current events, which you can adapt to your courses.
- Class Management
- November 13, 2020
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Online discussion forums
- Asynchronous Activity
- November 09, 2020
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Optimizing sound quality in Zoom for music performance
- Tech Tutorial from Stanford Introductory Studies.
- Tech Tutorial
- November 09, 2020
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Playing video through Zoom
- Tech tutorial from Stanford Introductory Studies.
- Tech Tutorial, Synchronous Activity