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 💡
Grading Transparency
One of our UMPI Academic Commitments is “A clear and fair grading system”. Do your students know how their final grade is determined and can they keep track of their…
Guide your students on the use of AI for learning
While there are mixed feelings about generative AI among faculty and students, it’s undeniable that AI is not going away and will continue to become embedded in all aspects of…
Instructive Alt Text
All images in your files need to have alternate text that describes the purpose and important information for those who cannot see the image. While we used to just consider…
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 🔍
The Cognitive Challenges of Effective Teaching
Chew & Cerbin propose a research-based framework of nine interacting cognitive challenges that teachers must address in order to promote “optimal learning” rather than merely acceptable performance. They emphasize that…
Eight Ways to Promote Generative Learning
Fiorella and Mayer argue that learning is generative—students learn best when they actively make sense of new information by selecting, organizing, and integrating it with prior knowledge. They synthesize research…
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…
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…
Favorite Resources 🔖
Prioritizing Faculty Well-Being During Politicized Times
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…
AI Use Cases in Higher Education: A Community Handbook
The AI Use Cases in Higher Education Handbook is a comprehensive, downloadable Excel workbook cataloging 75+ real-world and proposed applications of AI across 12 functional areas in higher education.
Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
What if your commute, workout, or morning coffee came with a dose of practical, research-informed teaching ideas? Hosted by Bonni Stachowiak — professor, dean of teaching and learning, and lifelong…
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…