Teaching

Using careful planning and refinement, artificial intelligence can be a valuable teaching aid for both profs and students.

Universities are mostly resuming face-to-face teaching this fall. This will not be a return to normal; the success of online education has fostered a historic disconnect.

Instructors need to acknowledge that introducing students to a broader range of expertise requires care, preparation and active facilitation.

Enrollment in philosophy programs and courses are on the rise recently. The discipline is being seen by young people as a tool to understand their world and help change it.

Moving to online delivery of programs and services forced universities to be creative. Here are some of the initiatives they’ll keep as we return to campus in person this fall.

A professor reconciles the push for transferrable skills in university courses with her own reasons for teaching history.

As universities prepare a return to on-campus activities, many are hoping to keep advantages of remote teaching.

Recognizing the pervasiveness and the impact of microaggressions is critical to the development of inclusive and anti-racist learning.

Students become far more interested when discussions focus on the tensions within a belief system rather than comparing two different ones.

Assumptions that tenure is central to an effective university and that academics must be engaged in both teaching and research are only part of the problem.

How Indigenous researchers and communities are working in partnership with universities and non-Indigenous researchers to shape the future of environmental sciences.

“I think it’s provoked a change in the way we actually teach. Hopefully, it’s going in a direction of being more engaging and interactive.”

Take the time to determine how your course is structured and run; it will make a huge difference in deciding which method to choose.

To all of the tenure-track and tenured faculty: you have the ability to make real changes in the lives of so many people.

Give your students clear learning objectives and concrete opportunities to apply what they are learning.

Including social justice in public health curriculum will equip students with an equity lens.

By rebranding office hours, having assignment debriefs and doing a survey after each module, I am able to build higher quality courses.

Our students like having rubrics for their assignments, but we couldn’t find a good example. So we created one.

How I adapted my regular course for a pandemic reality.

Universities are turning to the UN’s 17 sustainable development goals as a blueprint for achieving a better and more prosperous world.