ChatGPT in the Classroom: An Ongoing Conversation
The CETL would like to thank everyone who joined our open faculty discussions about AI and ChatGPT in the classroom this past week. We…
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Tips for the Week of April 3, 2023
Professional Development? But I’m Already a Good Teacher! According to Goobler (2019), most academics still receive little to no preparation for teaching in their…
Tips for the Week of March 27, 2023
All Teaching Strategies Are Not Equal In his book, The Missing Course, Goobler (2019) argues that while college is changing, the way we prepare college…
Tips for the Week of March 20, 2023
Easy Active Teaching Strategies for Engaged Learning As the Spring sunshine beckons students away from their studies and they drift into a mid-semester slump,…
Tips for the Week of March 13, 2023
Distracted Students: Are Digital Devices the Real Challenge? Educators today are quick to blame digital devices for distracting their students and subsequently impose policies…
Tips for the Week of March 6, 2023
Creating Interactive Lectures and Active Discussions Research tells us that students are more likely to be engaged and to retain information in an active…
Tips for the Week of February 27, 2023
Massed Practice Does Not Make Perfect Research tells us that cramming, a form of Massed Practice, isn’t effective for long-term retention of information. Distributed…
Tips for the Week of February 20, 2023
Priming Students for Success Students come to us with a wealth of preexisting knowledge, skills, beliefs, and attitudes, which influence how they attend to,…
Tips for the Week of February 13, 2023
Providing Meaningful & Effective Feedback One of the most important factors leading to students’ academic growth is the quality of feedback they receive from…
Welcome back from the CETL!
Your colleagues at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) would like to welcome the instructional faculty back to a new term…