Videos are one of many tools we can use in our teaching in any modality, but now that many of us are teaching remote or online courses, we may be using them more than we ever thought we would. When faculty first start teaching with videos, there are a few technical hills to climb: We need to […]

Have you noticed time distorting while you’re working remotely during the pandemic? Somehow, time seems to be moving both much more slowly and much more quickly than usual. Combined with the unfamiliarity of teaching by Zoom, or by recording, this probably makes it even more difficult than usual to get the pacing right in our […]

Many of our colleagues have reported hearing from students who are “lost,” disconnected, discouraged, overwhelmed, or otherwise struggling to manage their coursework or their mental health. Stress and anxiety seem to be hitting young adults especially hard right now. In a recent report from the CDC, 25.5% of survey respondents aged 18–24 years had seriously considered suicide […]

In his now-classic book Learner-Centered Teaching, Terry Doyle describes a fundamental shift in faculty’s thinking about course design: instead of focusing so much on the work that we will do (reading, taking notes, lecturing, working problems, doing demonstrations, etc.), he encourages us to focus more on what we will ask students to do because, as […]