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…
Teacher Confirmation
Teacher Confirmation Theory (Ellis, 2000) explains how instructor behaviors communicate to students that they are valued, respected, and capable of learning. These confirming behaviors reduce psychological distance, increase motivation, and…
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…
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…
Research Review 🔍
Effects of teacher, peer and self-feedback on student improvement in online assessment: the role of individuals’ presumptions and feedback literacy
This study examines how teacher, peer, and self-feedback influence student learning in an online assessment context. Using a quasi-experimental design with university students, the authors compared how students perceive different…
CHLOE 10 | Meeting the Moment: Navigating Growth, Competition, and AI in Oline Higher Education
Every year, Quality Matters and EDUCAUSE collaborate on a survey and research report called The Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE). Some key findings in the latest report released in…
Generative and retrieval tasks: Does the sequence matter and do sequence effects depend on learning task delay?
This 2026 study investigated whether the order in which students complete generative tasks (like generating their own examples of concepts) and retrieval tasks (like cued recall) affects learning outcomes. Using…
Favorite Resources 🔖
Demystifying screen reader use for manual testing
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…
Instructional Task Planner
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…
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…
Make America AI-Ready
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Labor announced the launch of “Make America AI-Ready,” a free artificial intelligence literacy course that will help American workers learn the basics of AI simply…