Opportunity to apply for CUNY Open Education Publishing Institute
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York has just announced its call for participants for the Summer 2024 Open Education Publishing Institute: Collaborative Knowledge and Social Justice, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grant program and hosted by GC Digital Initiatives and […]
BU Faculty Contribute to International Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Contributed by Malavika Shetty, CAS Writing Program/College of General Studies Faculty from the Writing Program, along with BU libraries on the Charles River campus, and the Alumni Medical Library, and colleagues from the University of Southern California and the American University of Beirut, organized an across-time-zones Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Feb 16, 2024. On the BU campus, the […]
Reflecting on Reflecting
Contributed by Jean Otsuki, Associate Director, CTL I recently had the opportunity to attend a meeting of the New England Faculty Developer Consortium, where I participated in a workshop called “Unsettling Assumptive Worlds Through Shifting Perspectives: Approaches to Reflective Practice in Teaching and Learning,” led by Dana Grossman Leeman, Senior Associate Director at the Center for […]
UDL Learning Community: Applications Open
CTL and Digital Learning & Innovation (DL&I) invite faculty to join a year-long Learning Community on Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Learning Community participants will meet for six 90-minute discussion and practice-based sessions in the spring and fall semesters of 2023. The meetings will be led by Luis Perez, a consultant for CAST. Find our more about the […]
Spring Workshops on Writing and Feedback
Christina Michaud and Marisa Milanese, Master Lecturers from the CAS Writing Program, will co-facilitate two workshops in early spring. Workshop 1: Putting Grammar Back In: Linguistically-Responsive Writing Instruction For faculty who teach writing, rhetoric, or writing-intensive courses, “what to do” about grammar has long been a concern. Join us for an interactive workshop as we […]
Welcoming Designing Antiracist Curricula Fellows
Professor Ibram Kendi offered words of welcome to the first cohort of DAC Fellows who will gather each month to learn about antiracist teaching approaches and develop courses.
Embodied Learning: Teaching and Learning with Reacting to the Past
Read the intense and exhilarating experience of attending the annual Game Development Conference, Reacting to the Past.
(Contributed by Maria Gapotchenko.)
CTL begins new partnership with MetroBridge
The Center for Teaching & Learning is excited to announce a new partnership with The Initiative on Cities’ MetroBridge experiential learning program. The partnership will be supported by a $25,000 grant over two years from the Davis Educational Foundation. Thanks to the Davis Educational Foundation and to David Glick, Faculty Director of MetroBridge, and Paige […]
Safety, Curiosity, and the Joy of Learning
A recent webinar, “What Students Need This Academic Year,” hosted by The Chronicle of Higher Education, reminded us that “normal” is a relative and transitory feeling and space. Malik Singleton, a student speaker from Harris-Stowe State University, noted that he wants to “take charge of my own normal.” With that advice in mind, we wish […]
Supporting students and faculty in the classroom
Contributed by Jean Otsuki and Deb Breen, CTL (3 minute read) After more than a year and a half of pandemic pedagogy (masks, social distancing, remote and hybrid teaching), many students and faculty have been looking forward to the prospect of a return to face-to-face classes. Yet the spread of the Delta variant has subdued […]