Tag student success

Inclusive Practice, Teaching Tips

Addressing discrimination in learning environments

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We can never guarantee total safety or know what feels safe to all students. However, we can do our best to promote conditions of relative safety. Why is establishing relative safety in our learning environments so important? Let’s start with…

UAF CTL Staff
September 28, 2021

Best practices, Teaching Tips

Strategies for better first-week student engagement

It's the first week of class. Do you know where your students are? It can be a rocky time for students the first week, even for those who are experienced. Here are some tips for helping them get up to speed as quickly as possible.

Moss
August 20, 2021

Best practices, Teaching Tips

Why should we care about OER?

Around 65% of your students may not purchase your textbook due to cost. This can have a significant impact on their success in your course. Using free and open education resources (OER) can ameliorate expenses for students and help make higher education more equitable for all students.

Moss
July 5, 2021

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How to inspire success through student interaction

Get ready to inspire someone to do their personal best this semester. This Teaching Tip includes ideas for increasing interaction in your course. Start with one thing and be consistent. Your choices will impact student learning and achievement. Before the…

UAF CTL Staff
June 28, 2021

Best practices, Inclusive Practice, Teaching Tips

Ideas for inclusive teaching practice

Inclusive teaching practice involves embracing diversity holistically throughout your course and activities. This Teaching Tip provides some ideas and resources for how to think about your course through an inclusive lens.

Moss
June 15, 2021

Best practices, Inclusive Practice, Teaching Tips

The art of the welcome announcement

Sending a welcoming message to students at the beginning of the semester is an important step in designing an effective online course. Intentional design and language choices in the announcement can create a lasting positive impression.

Best practices, Inclusive Practice, Teaching Tips

Introducing the online course evaluation rubric

The Online Course Evaluation Rubric serves as a framework for making notes on and progress toward preparing your course for next semester. Several instructional designers worked together gathering important course elements into categories with evaluative statements to jumpstart your review.

Christen Booth
June 1, 2021

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What is CircleIn and when will students have access?

UAF is expanding its pilot study of CircleIn, a supported online tool for peer study groups. Starting in fall 2021, CircleIn will be available to all students at UAF.

Dan LaSota
May 25, 2021

Inclusive Practice, Teaching Tips

Creating a learner-centered syllabus

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Research shows that a learner-centered syllabus increases positive student perception of the course and instructor, and generally leads to better learning outcomes. Here are specific ways you can update your syllabus to be more learner-centered.

UAF CTL Staff
May 3, 2021

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End-of-semester checklist to promote student success

At the end of the semester, students may struggle to remember everything they need to accomplish before the break. Here are five things instructors should remind students to do as each semester comes to a close.

UAF CTL Staff
March 30, 2021

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Aim for progress

At UAF, Student Progress Reports and Nanook Navigator Alerts are two mechanisms for providing feedback, which can lead to better student performance.

UAF CTL Staff
February 23, 2021

Emerging ideas, Teaching Tips

Unlocking your “hidden curriculum” to help high schoolers

We have been welcoming an increasing number of high school students into our courses. Helping these go-getters achieve a passing grade while still working on their high school diploma is easily achieved by following a hidden curriculum.

UAF CTL Staff
January 26, 2021