Lessons from a Veteran

Today’s post is a guest post by Barry Trachtenberg, Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History At my previous institution, I taught 4-week online courses in the History Department for about a dozen years during the summer and winter sessions. I’m not a great fan […]


Consultations are Going Remote, Too

Now that the entire campus is moving to remote work, we are making another shift in our plans for support this week (at some point, we are going to run out of chalkboard images to capture these shifts!). When our open labs went remote, many […]


Open Labs are Going Remote

Update: now that the entire campus is moving to remote work, we will also offer our 1:1 consultations remotely. To make that possible, we are cancelling the afternoon open labs on Tuesday-Friday afternoons. You can schedule a consultation via our new team Calendly page here: […]


National Public Radio Interview

A few hours before Wake Forest suspended face-to-face classes on Wednesday, I had a brief conversation with Jeremy Hobson of NPR’s Here and Now. In this interview, I offer advice to the many faculty and students transitioning to remote instruction across the country, talk through […]


WFU Keep Teaching Website

Thanks to our friends at Indiana University, and to the indefatigable Allen Brown in Online Education, we’re pleased to be able to share with you a new website with comprehensive resources for this transition. On this page you’ll find tips about getting started, specific […]


Remote Teaching Open Labs

Update: now that the entire campus is moving to remote work, we will also offer our 1:1 consultations remotely. To make that possible, we are cancelling the afternoon open labs on Tuesday-Friday afternoons. You can schedule a consultation via our new team Calendly page here: […]


Preparing for Remote Teaching

As I write this, 43 institutions have decided to suspend face-to-face classes to slow the communal spread of the novel coronavirus [update as of 3/11 @ 1:46PM: the number is 147]. In almost all cases, the plan is not to cancel classes, but […]


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