instructional highlights

‘We can’t go back:’ How the pandemic transformed teaching and learning for one professor It’s been a year of considerable reflection for Professor Christopher Walker, a faculty member of the Dance Department. With the pandemic …

Through Zoom, agronomy professor brings farmers from around the world to his students In teaching students about crops and farming in other parts of the world, Valentín Picasso Risso often incorporates field trips closer to …

‘Academic reading circles’ help anthropology students bond while tackling scholarly texts Even under the best circumstances, Anthro 237 can be challenging for students, says Associate Professor Jerome Camal. The course on music and race in …

A marketing instructor designs her virtual class, not surprisingly, through the eyes of a marketer During one memorable lecture each semester in her large face-to-face Marketing Management class, Laurie Brachman hands each student a two-pack …

Through surveys, instructor learns the needs of students — and helps students get to know each other Linn Posey-Maddox regularly surveys her students before the start of each semester to get to know them, and …

Math instructor increases student engagement with ‘hybrid’ approach to virtual office hours When the pandemic forced Betsy Stovall to move her large calculus class online last spring, she wondered how it would affect her office …

Leaning into the virtual format, professor ‘disrupts’ her approach and deepens student learning Rosemary Russ saw the change to online teaching as an opportunity not just to recreate what she had done in face-to-face instruction, …

A visual artist leans into design elements to build strong bonds with students Before the pandemic, Wei Dong could best be described as a skeptic of remote learning. He had never used cameras to record …

To present complicated concepts online, professor dips toe into animation Last summer, as Jason Kwan researched the components of effective online learning, he noted that the most popular educational YouTube videos used a lot of …

Multiple building blocks construct a solid foundation for FIG students Mou Banerjee approached virtual teaching last fall like an architect. She knew she’d need to design a sturdy foundation so that the students in her …