Our Remote Teaching Strategies website has been updated with a new page with strategies and resources to build belongingness, community, and connection in remote courses. This site includes six strategies to support community and connection before the semester begins and during the first two weeks of the semester.
The Office of Teaching and Learning (OTL) would like to highlight the amazing work that instructors, staff, librarians, and students are doing to adapt and succeed in the current teaching and learning environment. You are invited to share your reflections and experiences—through video, audio, or text—on your remote teaching and learning experiences or curricular innovations at UofG during the pandemic.
Our Remote Teaching Strategies website has been updated with new resources, including a guide to supporting students’ self-regulated and self-directed learning in the remote environment. This site includes six strategies that instructors can implement to support students’ self-regulation.
During the Winter 2021 semester, the Office of Teaching and Learning will be hosting a virtual book club to discuss The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion (Cavanagh, S., 2016). Book club discussions are open to all University of Guelph faculty and instructional staff (including sessionals). At each meeting, book club members will take part in a facilitated discussion of one or two chapters of The Spark of Learning and discuss your thoughts, questions or share experiences from their own classes.
Our Alternative Assessment Formats for Teaching Online website has been updated with new resources, including a guide to implementing two-stage exams in the remote environment. This site includes suggestions for implementing two-stage exams in both synchronous and asynchronous formats, and the benefits of implementing two-stage exams.
Our Alternative Assessment Formats for Teaching Online website has been updated with new resources, including our concise guide to Shifting your Assessments to the Remote Environment. This site includes questions to guide your selection of assessments and sample assessment strategies for different learning outcomes.
Want to learn more about how to balance synchronous and asynchronous teaching approaches in your remote course? See our new resource for information about effective synchronous and asynchronous methods for teaching and learning activities, including content delivery, strategies to support student engagement and learning, and strategies to build community.
Interested in using oral assessments or exams as an assessment method in your remote course? See our new resource on implementing oral assessments, including strategies to design and implement these assessments, and examples of their use in various disciplines.