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Provides basic and practical directions, tips, and other insights for teaching in Higher Education. The series is produced primarily for Canisius College faculty, but also may help professors or instructors elsewhere. 

We try to have at least one new episode each month.  You can also find and subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts.

Episodes

Table of Contents

Music Credit: Gunnar Olsen (via YouTube)

Episode 1

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Basic considerations and tips for communicating instructions, and updates to your students. Develop consistent procedures that simplify the learning process and focus energy on course substance.

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Get a quick list of calendar dates for your course outline using Caleb McDaniel's brilliant "Syllabus Maker."

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Episode 3

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Consider some basic course design principles.

Relevant Links and Resources

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Relevant Links and Resources

COLI Guide to Teaching Online Module 4: Communication & Creation.

Here's some helpful documentation for asynchronous discussion instructions for students.  You may adopt or adapt these to your classes.  

Our D2L Self-Paced Training for Faculty has a video series that shows how to organize, manage, and optimize your asynchronous discussions within D2L.

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Relevant Links and Resources

COLI Guide to Teaching Online Module 4: Communication & Creation.

Here's some helpful documentation for asynchronous discussion instructions for students.  You may adopt or adapt these to your classes.  

Community Standards and Polices at Canisius College.

Some Good Reading

Ten Best Practices for Teaching Online.  Taken from Judith Boettcher and Rita-Marie Conrad's The Online Teaching Survival Guide.  Among other things, this article includes great basic tips for online asynchronous discussions.

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Episode 11

In this episode, we discusses ways to improve professor feedback on student work.  Make your feedback commentary another great opportunity for students to learn, and help students get the most from it.

Great Sources

Brookhart, Susan.  How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students.  ASCD, 2017.  

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Canisius College Research Guides

Episode 13


In this episode, I will give a brief monologue on some tips and activities that instructors can use to help students to take better notes during class. I will also cover a few ways instructors can encourage students to become more involved in the lecture.

Sources

Barkley, Elizabeth F., and Claire Howell Major. Interactive Lecturing a Handbook for College Faculty. Jossey-Bass ;John Wiley & Sons, 2018. Open WorldCat, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1696854.

Davis, Tessa. “Https://Twitter.Com/Tessardavis/Status/1359819223212699648.” Twitter, https://twitter.com/tessardavis/status/1359819223212699648. Accessed 16 Mar. 2022.

“Home.” The K. Patricia Cross Academy, https://kpcrossacademy.org/. Accessed 17 Mar. 2022.

McMurtie, Beth. “A ‘Stunning’ Level of Student Disconnection Professors Are Reporting Record Numbers of Students Checked out, Stressed out, and Unsure of Their Future.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-stunning-level-of-student-disconnection?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_4057895_nl_Academe-Today_date_20220412&cid=at&source=&sourceid=&cid2=gen_login_refresh. Accessed April 12, 2022.

Other Links

Note-taking and Studying for College

Creating SlideDecks

Microsoft Lens App for Scanning Written Documents