2-Minute Mentor Videos:
Online Resources for KU Faculty and Instructional Staff Members
Each 2-Minute Mentor link features a short (two-minute) video discussion and a couple of quick hits about these teaching topics:
GTA Flex and Online Teaching Program
GTAs: The link to the application form for the GTA Flex and Online Teaching Program is now available. It can be accessed here.
Events
Flex Teaching
CTE has created a website for helping faculty create flexible courses that can shift between in-person and online. Visit the Flex Teaching site.
Bloom's Sixth, the CTE blog
40 days (and 40 nights?) of teaching in confinement: A diary
Making iPad videos, using VoiceThread, and living a life of non sequiturs
A place for community during isolation from campus
Helping students find their way through a fog of uncertainty online
To give your online class a bit of campus feel, add a virtual whistle
News & Notes
Carol Holstead, Journalism & Mass Communications, shares strategies for improving teaching, starting with a back-to-the-basics approach for names, emails, feedback, and office hours.
Tony Rosenthal, History, discusses the use of new teaching methodologies in a urban history course in his article, "Sin Cities: From History to Sociology to Urban History, an Interdisciplinary Journey".
Harvard University scholars focus on "Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom".
The American Sociological Association calls for reconsideration of student teaching evaluations. Click here for official statement.
