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.
Carmen Common Sense: Best Practices
Learn how to apply Carmen Common Sense, ten student-authored suggestions for a student-friendly course.
Designing Assessments of Student Learning
Explore best practices for planning thoughtful and effective assessments of student learning.
Facilitating Discussion
Learn strategies for planning and facilitating meaningful class discussions in face-to-face and online contexts.
Online Instructor Presence
Learn how to be there for your online students, including strategies for communication, support, and feedback.
Shaping a Positive Learning Environment
Learn how to foster a learning environment that is welcoming, inclusive, and supportive of all students.
Student Interaction Online
Explore best practices for fostering meaningful student-student interaction in your online course.
Supporting Student Learning In Your Course
Learn how to intentionally support your students, and why this is especially important in online courses.
Teaching Online: Effective Practices
Explore key practices for building and teaching your online course.
Universal Design for Learning
Understand how Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can improve the learning experience for all of your students.
Keep Teaching Guides
- Keep Teaching: Carmen Course Template
- Keep Teaching: Virtual Labs
- Keep Teaching: Alternatives to Traditional Finals
- Keep Teaching: Strategies for more efficient grading
- Keep Teaching: Video Assignment Guide
- Online and Hybrid Syllabus Template Instructions
- Designing Assessments That Don't Lend Themselves to Cheating
- Attendance in Online Classes
- ODEE Credit Hour Estimation
- Regular and Substantive Interaction in Online and Distance Learning