Below is a list of popular topics that the Teaching and Learning Collaboratory currently focuses on. If you have an interest in one of the topics, please review our workshop schedule below to register for those currently available. If the workshop is not listed or the date and time does not fit for your your schedule, please reach out to Maureen Fodera to discuss what topic you would like to review and to schedule a time.
Supporting In Person or Digital/Online Delivery
- Active Learning
- Best practices, benefits, and examples
- Deeper Dive into Visual Maps, Jigsaw, and Think/Pair/Share
- Best Practices for Dealing with Student Absences
- Considering Brave Spaces vs. Safe Spaces in Discussions
- Creating Effective Multiple Choice Questions for Student Response Systems
- Engaging Discussions – Get Your Students Thinking and Engaged with Your Subject Matter
- Flipping the Classroom
- Best practices, benefits, considerations and tools
- Guidelines for Working with Online Approaches for an Online or In Person Classroom Format
- Being Present, Organizing Course Intuitively, Framework for Learning Activities, Online Discussion Board Etiquette, Asynchronous and Synchronous Modalities – When Best to Use
- Tips for Incorporating Digital Story Telling as Assignments
- Tips for Planning Your Condensed Course
- Tips on Ways to Engage and Motivate Students with Reading Assignments and Micro Video Lectures
Online
- Tips for Improving Online Breakout Rooms
- Note: This topic focuses on strategies to improve the flow of break our rooms. It does not review how to use the technology tool.
Software Application/Tools
- Tips for Creating Basic Excel Pivot Tables Using Excel for Windows
- Tips for Creating Letter and Label Mail Merges Using Word for Windows
- Working with the iClicker Tool – Student Response System
- Tips for Working with Google Earth – Chrome Version
- Supported Whiteboarding Tools on Campus for Courses or Meetings - Webex and Box
- Supported Polling Tools on Campus for Courses or Meetings - Slido and iClicker