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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Episode 17
Dr. Jonathan Lawrence, Associate Professor in Religious Studies, is joined by recent Canisius graduates Mylan Hawkins and Abby Bradley to discuss the use of historical simulation games in their recent classes. Dr. Lawrence uses Reacting to the Past series games to teach concepts in the study of world religions, as well as critical analysis skills common across the liberal arts. He has written a game focused on Jesuit history, appropriate at Canisius College but also any course where perspectives on religion intersect with social class and political institutions.
Hawkins and Bradley provide valuable student perspectives: it is fun to learn this way, but it was also challenging. Game-based learning makes rigorous demands on students' research, analysis, and presentations skills, as well as creativity, emotional intelligence and collegiality. At the same time, it compels students to consider the relationship between their cultures and experiences in the present, and people's problems and choices in the past. Along the way, they encountered plenty of surprises, too!
Relevant Links and Resources
Reacting to the Past Consortium
Course Catalog: Religious Studies at Canisius