Teaching Topics
Browse our growing repository of teaching topics to learn more about best practices for planning your courses, choosing teaching strategies, supporting your students and more.
Learn how to take a proactive, rather than punitive, approach to academic integrity in your courses.
Creating effective and engaging lecture videos is easy with the right tools and strategies.
Turn moments of classroom conflict and tension into generative learning opportunities by adopting the practice of “calling in.”
Learn how to apply Carmen Common Sense, ten student-authored suggestions for a student-friendly course.
Foster student participation in synchronous class meetings with these strategies for creating inclusive CarmenZoom spaces.
Explore strategies for creating or adapting effective assignments for online courses.
Explore best practices for planning thoughtful and effective assessments of student learning.
These guiding questions and considerations will help you design meaningful research assignments.
Understand the Digital Flagship initiative and explore basic approaches to leveraging students’ iPads in your course.
Learn strategies for planning and facilitating meaningful class discussions in face-to-face and online contexts.
Explore strategies to support students as they learn to write across different disciplines.
Learn core information literacy concepts and explore teaching strategies to incorporate them into your courses.
Learn how to evaluate teaching in online courses and download an example peer review rubric.
Explore strategies to keep teaching during emergencies or temporary interruptions to traditional instruction.
Download and customize a syllabus template for your online or hybrid course.
Learn how to be there for your online students, including strategies for communication, support, and feedback.
Learn how to foster a learning environment that is welcoming, inclusive, and supportive of all students.
Learn how to take a multifaceted approach to academic integrity in your online courses.
Explore best practices for fostering meaningful student-student interaction in your online course.
Learn how to intentionally support your students, and why this is especially important in online courses.
Explore key practices for building and teaching your online course.
Explore resources and tools for converting from in-person to virtual labs.
Understand how Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can improve the learning experience for all of your students.