Each week, we send out three bite-sized tidbits with upcoming events: Teaching Tip, Research Review, and Favorite Resource. Find the archived postcards here.
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Teaching Tips 💡
Learner Progress
Want a quick way to check on how your students are doing in your course? Visit the Learner Progress tool in Brightspace under the Course Resources menu.
Create regular connections with every single learner
One of the challenges of teaching is reaching every student. This can be especially difficult in distance courses where you don’t have a chance to grab a student after class…
Use their names
Want a quick hack for engaging students, creating a warm classroom climate, and building connections with your learners? Use their names! Taking the time to learn them and pronounce them…
Create custom holiday messages
You may or may not be ready to use generative AI for teaching and learning, but there are so many other uses. These large language models are really good with…
Research Review 🔍
Sustaining student concentration: The effectiveness of micro-breaks in a classroom setting
Is it more effective to take a 10-minute break halfway through a 90-minute lecture or a 90-second break every 10 minutes? Researchers investigated the effect of the timing of these…
Improve Learning
Did you know that asking students to intentionally make a mistake and correct it can actually improve their learning? A recent study had students either restudy material by underlining key…
Learning in double time: The effect of lecture video speed on immediate and delayed comprehension
Researchers examined how lecture video playback speed affects student learning by having undergraduates watch recorded lectures at normal speed (1x), faster speeds (1.5x, 2x, 2.5x), or by watching videos more…
Favorite Resources 🔖
Manage Your Browser Tabs
How many browser tabs do you have open on a given day? Do you find yourself keeping them open and just putting your computer to sleep at the end of…
AI-Supported Civil Discourse
Sway is a chat platform that connects students with differing perspectives into one-on-one conversations and facilitates better discussions between them. Developed with Heterodox Academy and inspired by John Stuart Mill’s…
Color Contrast Checker
Color contrast is critical in your digital content because it ensures people with low vision, color blindness (approximately 1 in 12 men), or situational impairments (like screen glare) can easily…
AI Pedagogy Project
The AI Pedagogy Project is a free, open-access resource developed by metaLAB (at) Harvard that helps educators understand and engage with generative AI — particularly large language models (LLMs) like…