Announcing Our New Graduate Teaching Blog!

This year, CTL has been fortunate to have three wonderful graduate students working with us as Graduate Teaching Consultants (you can find out more about Phillippa Pitts, Sarah Sklar, and Ben Suitt on our staff page). One of their ideas was to produce a blog “for grad students, by graduate students” addressing some of the teaching questions […]

Meet our Spring 2021 Adobe Catalyst Program Cohort!

BU’s Adobe Catalyst Program (ACP), a Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) and Digital & Learning Innovation (DL&I) partnership has started its third cohort. The ACP provides a virtual learning space for experienced Adobe Creative Cloud (ACC) users (catalysts) to mentor colleagues who wish to implement multi-modality into their teaching and assignments, and use ACC […]

Adobe Catalyst Program: Teaching with Adobe Creative Cloud

  Adobe Creative Cloud software provides a unified platform to edit professional video and audio, process digital images, create single and multi-page printed layouts, render 3D objects, and much more. The Center for Teaching & Learning’s Adobe Catalyst Program brings faculty together to help them become more comfortable using this powerful software tool in the classroom.

The Power of the Special Guest on Zoom

Film Director Isaac Cherem visits Prof. Amina Shabani’s Spanish class as guest via Zoom (Image courtesy of Amina Shabani) Faculty Contributor: Amina Shabani (Lecturer in Spanish, Romance Studies) (2 minute read) Thanks to the generous support of the CTL and the Hub Office, we were able to host last month the Mexican filmmaker Isaac Cherem […]

Game-based Learning & Gamification

  Faculty Contributor: Amber Navarre (Senior Lecturer in Chinese, World Languages & Literatures) (2 minute read) Between playing a game with friends and attending a lecture in Zoom, what would your student choose? What if the lecture itself is a game they can play with friends? Researchers have found that playing games and creating a game-like environment […]

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Faculty Guide to Assessment Options in Remote & Hybrid Classes Part 1: Overview of Exams & Assignments

(12 minute read) Creating and administering assessment tasks such as assignments, quizzes, and exams during this remote and hybrid teaching period is a challenge, but also an opportunity to evaluate how to meet the learning objectives in your class. The options outlined in this multi-part series guide on assignments and exams will help you think […]

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Wikipedia in the Classroom: Getting Started

Thursday, October 29 from 2:00-3:30pm Presented by faculty and staff from BU Libraries, BU CAS Writing Program, College of Communication, School of Public Health, and Wiki Education. Wikipedia editing has proven to be useful in academic courses. It can serve as a form of service learning and can lead to new informal communities of interest on […]