Resources

Categories: Cluster Learning: Interdisciplinarity
October 29, 2020

The Power of Place: How Place-Centered Education is the Secret to raising a new Generation of Empowered Students

Place-Based Education (PBE), so named by David Sobel, is a unique teaching technique that has been developing within the educational community. More than ever, teachers are looking to provide students […]

Categories: Inclusive Pedagogy
October 16, 2020

Teaching with Equity and Inclusion

How can our course designs and teaching practices evolve to respond proactively and effectively to social demands for equity and inclusion? Explore these resources from an October 2020 CoLab hosted […]

Categories: Digital Pedagogy, Online Learning
September 28, 2020

HiFlex, Zoom, and Your Sanity

Lots of faculty are trying new things in their teaching as we navigate COVID. From using Zoom more, to teaching online and f2f students simultaneously, to developing ways to connect with asynchronous […]

Categories: Digital Pedagogy, Online Learning
September 24, 2020

The Zoom Black Box Dilemma

Plagued by empty/black boxes in your Zoom classrooms? This short presentation provides some background and ideas about how to creatively approach the Black Box Dilemma. For links and info, visit […]

Categories: Digital Pedagogy, Online Learning
September 21, 2020

Non-Boring Zoom Breakout Groups

How to make Zoom breakout groups less boring. This is a list of ideas crowdsourced from Twitter. For all links and info, visit the slide deck! Slide Deck

Categories: Critical Pedagogy
September 17, 2020

The Death of Rigor

CoLab faculty and staff host a panel discussion about “rigor” in higher education: what is it, what does it mean, how do we enact it or push against it? Video […]

Categories: Assessment & Ungrading, Online Learning
July 31, 2020

Designing Assessments for Online Courses

This resource was designed specifically for Plymouth State faculty who are concerned about academic integrity in online assessment. While the CoLab generally suggests rethinking assessment to eliminate the need for […]

Categories: Digital Pedagogy, Online Learning
July 28, 2020

Teams How-To: Adding Zoom Link Tab

Hannah walks through the process of adding a Zoom room tab to a Microsoft Teams. This might be helpful if you are planning on using Teams in your classes in […]

Categories: Online Learning
July 22, 2020

Credit Hour Calculator For Online Courses

This is a resource created by the good folks at Granite State College. At its most basic, it’s a list of the ways your students engage in your online course, […]

Categories: Digital Pedagogy
June 19, 2020

Faculty Websites: What, Why, How?

Martha Burtis talks about why faculty might want to bring their scholarship or teaching to a personal/professional web domain of their own, and offers some thoughts about how to get […]