M-CELT: Teaching Resources

• Use the Workload Estimator from the Center for Advancement of Teaching at Wake Forest University to ensure reasonable and realistic course expectations.

• Using discussion board forums in your class? See this helpful guidance from the Ohio College Teaching Consortium on Facilitating Meaningful Online Discussions.

• Employ more active learning strategies in your online classes with the Online Instructional Activities Index from the University of Illinois.

• 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.

• 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). 

• 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!

• BreakoutRN offers strategies, products, and articles geared toward implementing active learning through creative tools and resources for an engaged nursing classroom.

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

Chickering and Gamson's (1987) "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education":

1. Encourage contact between students and faculty
2. Develop reciprocity and cooperation among students
3. Encourage active learning
4. Give prompt feedback
5. Emphasize time on task
6. Communicate high expectations
7. Respect diverse talents and ways of learning