Favorite Resources from the UMPI Center for Teaching & Learning
The Inclusive Pedagogy (IP) Toolkit from Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship (CNDLS) offers faculty a concise, practical collection of strategies for creating learning environments where all students can participate and succeed. It outlines core principles of inclusive teaching—such as transparency, flexibility, and fostering belonging—and turns them into easy-to-apply practices for course design, classroom interactions, and assessment.
I’m working on an interactive tool to help faculty visualize their workload and think through which instructional tasks they might cut back on. Faculty are so overextended, and I’ve found they’re extremely grateful when I acknowledge:
This article in Change: The Magazine of Higher Education does an excellent job of outlining the effect that political pressures have had on faculty across the country and how some faculty in Florida have responded.
Are you curious about what it’s like for someone with a vision impairment to navigate a website? Gareth Fuller attended this training at the Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) conference last week and returned with the session materials. This website explains how screen readers work and what the experience is like for someone to use it. It also provides guidance on downloading and using software to try it yourself.
The University of Kansas has a fantastic team supporting their CBE program, including a psychometrician (an expert in the measurement of mental capacities and processes) who developed a taxonomy of assessment types. While it is still in development, you can find the verb used in your learning outcome in the list in this database (such as Apply) and see helpful related information. This includes:
Ready to level up your learning outcomes? Break them down into individual skills that can be mapped to currently in demand occupations.
This PDF Accessibility training series was provided to Microsoft employees on creating accessible PDF documents. Use these videos, along with documentation from Adobe to learn to create, remediate, and check for accessibility issues. To test your knowledge, use the PDF sample documents shared by Microsoft
This spreadsheet contains 47 teaching ideas from “Analog Inspiration,” a card deck designed by (© 2025 Carter Moulton). You can learn more and purchase the deck at Analog Inspiration AI. For example, the idea for Authenticity is: Share your learning outcomes with AI … Read More