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 […]
Recap: Graduate Student Workshop on Metacognition
Christina Michaud and Melanie Smith explained how simple metacognitive exercises can benefit both students and instructors without generating more grading.
Graduate Student Workshop: Using Metacognition in the Classroom to Increase Student Community and Learning
Explore strategies for prompting students to reflect on their learning, address their fears of failure, and assess themselves and their peers.
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.)
Reimagining the Grading Paradigm
In Spring 2022, the Center for Teaching & Learning created several events and programming that focused on questions about grading. This programming was inspired by, and in partnership with, colleagues from the College of General Studies, Kilachand Honors College, and the College of Arts Writing Program. Why grading? We chose this focus because of the many […]
A New Conference: Antiracist Teaching, Language and Assessment
CTL would like to help spread the word about a new conference, Antiracist Teaching, Language and Assessment, which kicks off 9/17, and includes sessions on 9/24 and 10/1. The conference is hosted by Oregon State University. Sessions are free and on Zoom. Keynote speakers include Alexandria Lockett, Vershawn Ashanti Young, Victor Villanueva, Ana Milena Ribero, […]
Modeling Accessibility and Inclusivity through Film-making
Film Director Miguel Ángel Font Bisier discusses accessibility and inclusivity with Prof. Elena Carrión Guerrero’s Spanish translation class (Image courtesy of Elena Carrión Guerrero) Contributed by Elena Carrión Guerrero (Senior Lecturer, Spanish, Department of Romance Studies, CAS) (4 minute read) In my spring class, LS 306 Spanish through Translation, I was fortunate to receive a […]
Summer Workshop Announcement: Gateways to Student Learning: Engaging students through the Flipped Classroom Approach
What have been the lessons of teaching in the LfA modality? How will you be transferring some of the successful strategies you implemented to increase student engagement remotely into the classroom? After a year of teaching in the LfA modality, you may be thinking about adapting many of the hybrid and remote content you have […]
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 […]