Foot traffic on campus may be light, but there is a lot happening in online classes already!
Many active learning techniques that work easily on the fly in live classrooms may need a bit of reworking for the online, hybrid, or physically distanced classroom. For instance, think-pair-share can happen spontaneously in person but requires planning ahead on Zoom. Even just pausing during a lecture feels different online.
This collaborative document hosted by LSU and the POD Network is quite handy. Thoughtful educators are contributing ideas for adapting F2F active learning activities to online synchronous, online asynchronous, and physically distanced classrooms. Browse by goal (such as engagement, assessment, reflection, deepening understanding) and active learning strategy. Contribute your ideas.
How are you approaching assessment this semester? Flexibility is the key concept, but how to apply it? Contract grading? Ungrading? Tokens? Give your ideas wings with CTE Faculty Fellow Alison Barton's folder from CHIIPs on Specification Grading.
The CTE hosts a book club every semester. This fall we read and discussed Jessamyn Neuhaus' Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers. See how Lori Meier in Clemmer College applies some ideas from the book to her classes with these lovely slides from her CHIIPs session.
