Faculty Matters:
New! From Turnitin: Guidance on Evaluating Your Assignment Prompts (and writing new ones) that Discourage Generative AI Use.
From The Center for Teaching Vanderbilt University:
Best Practices for Classroom Management: Dealing with Disruptive Behavior by Kathleen McKinney.
College Completion Most Influenced by Who’s Teaching and How by Jessica Blake
New:
Getting Started with AI-Enhanced Teaching: A Practical Guide for Instructors (2024) and Guiding Principles for the Use of Generative AI in Courses from MIT Sloan Teaching & Learning Technologies
Five Ways to Get Nursing Students Engaged in Your Classroom
A guide to engaging your nursing students in the classroom by Wolters Kluwer.
Center for Academic Innovation
This article presents a systematic literature review of AR/VR teaching-learning experiences in higher education institutions (HEI), analyzing 129 papers from 2012 to 2022. The review highlights how AR/VR technologies have been successfully integrated into various fields, improving learning immersion, particularly in disciplines like hospitality, medicine, and science studies.
Bermejo, B., Juiz, C., Cortés Gómez, D., Oskam, J., Moilanen, T., Loijas, J., ... & Dunlea, D. (2023). AR/VR teaching-learning experiences in higher education institutions (HEI): A systematic literature review. Informatics, 10(2), 45. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics10020045
This study investigates the effectiveness of three-dimensional virtual reality (3D-VR) as a teaching tool for human anatomy courses in medical education. It found that VR significantly improved knowledge retention, particularly for male students, compared to traditional teaching methods.
Alharbi, Y., Al-Mansour, M., Al-Saffar, R., & Garman, A. (2020). Three-dimensional virtual reality as an innovative teaching and learning tool for human anatomy courses in medical education: A mixed methods study. Cureus, 12(2), e7085. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7085
A Student's Perspective on Creating a Classroom Legacy: How College Professors Can Garner Phenomenal Student Reviews by Mia Cestra at ACUE
Featured:
Learn More:
A Universal Design Approach to Teaching Multilingual Students. From The Times Higher ED
What is ChatGPT? Learn more from Open AI.
From Beth McMurtrie and The Chronicle Teaching: Will ChatGPT Change the Way You Teach?
Inside Higher Ed
From Susan D'Agostino: ChatGPT Advice Academics Can Use Now
Familiar with the ins and outs of FERPA? Learn more from The University at Albany
Read the Maria College Ferpa Policy Statement.
Mental Health and Wellness
How to support and promote student well-being? In Beyond the Walls of the Wellness Center: Creating a Cross-Institutional Well-Being Strategy, Dr. Alexander R. Miller and Julie Tucker discuss the importance of creating a campus culture in which we might promote students' engagement with their own wellness and how faculty and staff can help alter the narrative of wellness beyond counseling to include discussions with students about nutrition, sleep, physical activity, and the restorative properties of nature.
Acknowledging the increase of stressful sociopolitical events and the impact on student well-being, Lindsay Till Hoyt, Ph.D .offers strategies to support student well-being, within the context of civic engagement in Promoting College Students’ Mental Health in the Context of Sociopolitical Stress.
New: Take a look at our neurodiversity, equity and inclusion resource section for faculty.
Faculty Focus Live podcasts
#40: Student Retention, Interleaving, and Fundamental Concepts: Design Your Course with This in Mind!
#41: Setting the Tone on the First Day of Class with Generative Games, a Kite, and Toast
#31: Authentic Assessment Strategies: Assessing Learning that Empowers Your Students
From the Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning:
Ziqian Zhou explores beliefs about critical thinking and shares pedagogical implications for designing modules to promote its development in learners in Critical Thinking: Two Theses from the Ground Up.
From ACUE: Free Webinar Recordings
Online Teaching Toolkit: Managing your Online Presence, Tips for Getting Started.
Recording Effective Microlectures
From the Journal of Teaching & Learning Inquiry Volume 9 2021 and Volume 10 2022:
The Effect of Collaborative Learning on Academic Motivation by Chad N. Loes
Metacognition in Teaching: Using A “Rapid Responses to Learning” Process to Reflect on and Improve Pedagogy by Susan Cox
Laura Varlas identifies the differences in aims of reading in high school and college to propose strategies for assisting students with college-level reading of texts in her article for Educational Leadership, 58(7):
Syllabus-ted: Preparing Students for the Rigors of College Reading by Laura Varlas
FERPA and Protecting Student Privacy While Using Online Educational Services: Requirements and Best Practices.
From Faculty Focus: To AI or not AI?
Teaching with Technology: The Evolution of Instruction (2023) by Blakely, Riggins-Thomas, and McCraney.
From Loyola Marymount University:
Using AI in the Classroom: A Teacher's Lens (webinar) with Brent Warner
Professional Development Opportunities through the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE)
Drop-in to the Center! You will find us upstairs in Main Building in the Arts and Sciences wing. In the meantime, we are available for virtual consultations.
Our computers are set up with software for you to trial for presentations and lecture capture. We have instructional guides and headphones with microphones for your use.
SUNY Online has developed the Course Quality Review Rubric (OSCQR), a research-based professional development tool for faculty to further online course quality, effectiveness, and efficiency. The rubric lists 50 standards across the following areas of an online course's learner experience: Overview and Information; Technology and Tools; Design and Layout; Content and Activities; Interaction; and Assessment and Feedback.
Review Blackboard’s Exemplary Online Course Program Rubric to review your online course. The rubric addresses key aspects of an effective online course including design, interaction & collaboration, assessment, and learner support, and will offer strategies to make your course exemplary!
Designing courses with accessibility and digital inclusion in mind is one way to demonstrate our commitment to equity in higher education and ensure we reach all learners, and provide a meaningful learning experience for all. Here's a link to a Digital Accessibility Checklist created by Christina Moore, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Oakland University. (Creative Commons License CC BY-NC).
If you have questions about accessibility, navigability or Universal Design for Learning, please contact M-CELT via the link below.
What is meant by the Catholic Intellectual Tradition?
In our mission statement we explain that Maria College's commitment to career-relevant, opportunity education is rooted in the context of the Catholic intellectual tradition. This tradition is embraced by Catholic colleges and universities around the world. Boston College has created a document to foster discourse amongst faculty across disciplinary boundaries about what this tradition means for their teaching. Although Boston College is rooted in the Jesuit educational tradition, and Maria in the Sisters of Mercy, the document offers a historic introduction to how education at Catholic colleges engages with "the ultimate search for truth that animates faith", and how this serves as "the catalyst for inquiry":
The Catholic Intellectual Tradition: A Conversation at Boston College
Using Challenges To Motivate Learners with Michael Wesch
Helping Students to Thrive with Shauntae White
On Improving Our Teaching with Dan Levy
More from The Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL) is an open journal.
Highlights:
Why Aren't My Students Reading: Unveiling the Hidden Curriculum of Course Material Usage by Jayne R. Goode, Kerri K. Morris, Bradley Smith, J. Christopher Tweddle
The Morass of Misconceptions: How Unjustified Beliefs Influence Pedagogy and Learning
From the Archives
From The Chronicle
For faculty new to teaching
One Great Tip for First-Time Instructors: Crowdsourced teaching advice from seasoned faculty
One Way to Kick Off Your First Class
Help Your Students Move Beyond Passive Listening
The Damaging Myth of the Natural Teacher with Beth McMurtrie
Nine Characteristics of a Great Teacher, with Dr. Maria Orlando
Reflections on Teaching Mistakes I've Made, with Professor Chris Palmer, School of Communication at American University.
From the Archives:
Metacognition—The Bridge to Student Success with Ben Blood
Overcoming Student Distaste for Collaborative Group Work Online with Wendy Trevor
How to Be a Better Online Teacher by F. Darby, The Chronicle of Higher Education
7 Guidelines for Effective Teaching Online by S. O'Malley, Inside Higher Ed
How to Adapt Courses for Online Learning: A Practical Guide for Faculty by S. Cruickshank, Johns Hopkins
Tips for Effective Online Discussions:
From Inside Higher Ed and EduCause
Effective academic advising goes beyond helping students decide what courses they need to fulfill degree objectives. It speaks to the education of the whole person, as Winston, et. al reflected (1984): "Developmental advising relationships focus on identifying and accomplishing life goals, acquiring skills and attitudes that promote intellectual and personal growth, and sharing concerns for each other and for the academic community". The article, Developmental Academic Advising: A 40-Year Context by Thomas J. Grites in the NACADA Journal 33 (1): 5–15, offers an overview of the significance and evolution of this approach.
Encouraging Self-Advocacy: How to Build Environments for Awareness and Self-Disclosure for Learners with Disabilities by Melissa Brevetti, PhD, and Bradley Mays, PhD
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M-CELT is located on the 2nd floor in the Main Building by the Registrar's office.
M-CELT is under the direction of Dr. Matt Galletta, Director of the Troy Savings Bank Writing Center, Director of Academic Success, Instructor of English and Director of M-CELT.
Jennifer Garhartt, MS, RN, CEN, Assistant Director
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The area is staffed by our Educational Technology Training Specialist Kim Santspree.
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