8 Strategies to Prevent Teaching Burnout What can you do this semester to protect your well-being and support your students? by Flower Darby “Teaching online can be time-consuming and draining, but it doesn’t have to be. Try some of these self-care strategies. Do it for yourself, and do it for your students. You can’t teach Read More…

Teaching: How to ‘Read the Room’ in an Online Course by Beckie Supiano From the Chronicle of Higher Ed, Beckie Supiano shares readers’ suggestions for collecting nonverbal feedback from students in online courses. Great ideas for thinking about how to “read the room” in an online course.  

In Students Say Their Workload Increased During the Pandemic. Has it?,  Beth McMurtie (from the Chronicle of Higher Ed) discusses the workload conundrum in the shift to remote learning: students say their workload has increased; faculty say they have scaled back. She offers a number of ways to think about this discrepancy based on interviews Read More…

From Beth McMurtrie: How to Make Breakout Rooms Work Better Beth McMurtrie writes a weekly column on Teaching in Higher Ed. In this column, she shares: Readers’ approaches for making videoconferencing breakout rooms work Strategies to document Covid-19’s impact on faculty life Resources for teaching you may have missed

Tracey Saloman (could create new post for some reason so I edited exiting) What I really like about this list of active verbs is it actually categorizes the verbs based on what the writer would like to showcase in his or her resume. I don’t think it’s always obvious to our students how many options Read More…