Like most of you, I have many and varied thoughts about grades. Even in the best case scenario, grading is a fraught enterprise. Grading during a global pandemic is even more so. Among the many features of grades that make them particularly tricky in […]
This post is a guest post by CAT Innovative Teaching Award winner, Carmen Pérez-Muñoz, Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish. To read more from Carmen, visit her new blog, Dr. Carmen’s Corner. Since writing has always been therapeutic for me, and I sure […]
This post is the third in a series about alternatives to synchronous video conferencing platforms like Zoom. What follows is a wild thought experiment. What it isn’t is an endorsement of a specific pedagogical approach. You might call it speculative pedagogical fiction. […]
Today’s post is a guest post by Megan Regan, Visiting Associate Professor of Economics I am redesigning my courses with three priorities. This semester is teaching everyone new lessons about the world we live in and the fragility of human built systems; we will […]
Transitioning any course mid-semester to a remote setting is hard (understatement of the year!). It may seem especially daunting if the class you are teaching is hands-on, procedural, or performative in nature or if the learning experiences rely on equipment or technology only available in […]
This post is the second in a series on alternatives to live video sessions with students. You can teach the remainder of your course using nothing but email. I’ll repeat: you can teach the remainder of your course using nothing but email… and maybe […]
This post is the first in a series on alternatives to live video sessions with students. At this point it seems everyone has likely spent an inordinate amount of time communicating with colleagues near and far about what in the world we all will […]
So. Your students are scattered to the winds, their textbooks might still be in their dorm rooms, and you have no idea if they’ll have access to reliable WiFi for the 249 Zoom sessions you plan to schedule. What’s a newly-remote teacher to do? Ask […]
Announcing the rapid shift to remote teaching in the middle of spring break makes course material access difficult for many students. Here are ways that you, vendors and publishers, and ZSR Library can help. Additional information is on the library’s Rapidly Shifting Courses for […]
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 […]
