Session Overview:In this session, Colgate faculty members share their experiences in addressing academic dishonesty in the remote environment. The discussion explores the perceived increase in academic dishonesty during the past couple of semesters, as well as adjustments to assessment approaches…
Colgate Faculty Roundtable – Thoughts on Design for Remote Assessment
Session Overview:In this session, several Colgate faculty members share their experiences in designing and adjusting assessment practices for the remote environment. The use of the Google Assignment feature, rubrics for focused feedback, encouraging reflection and feedback on assessments, and engaging…
A NY6 Research Panel: Faculty Scholarship and Productivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Worried about the impact the demands of remote teaching are having upon the time, energy, and resources necessary for your scholarship? You are not the only one. Colleagues from Skidmore, St. Lawrence, and Union have data and ideas they will…
“I Actually Like Teaching on Zoom”
Contributed by Jennifer Brice “Surprisingly, the discussions in my video classes have been better than those in the live era,” writes Viet Thanh Nguyen in this New York Times op-ed about teaching on Zoom (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/opinion/zoom-video-school-teaching.html). He acknowledges the trade-offs (warmth and…
Zoom, Teaching and Play…?
Zoom has and continues to shape classroom interactions…in ways we may have come to appreciate as well as in ways we certainly dread. Yet we all have to acknowledge that it is not going away anytime soon. Finding ways to…
Supporting Students’ Mental Well-Being
A recent article from Inside Higher Ed, shares information from a survey conducted that explored ways the pandemic has had a negative impact on students’ academics, mental health and sense of the future (see Survey: Pandemic Hurt Students, but They…
Making Remote Class Sessions More Accessible
Fully remote and hybrid class environments can certainly present challenges in terms of clear communication and interactions. Otter.ai is a voice transcription technology that integrates with Zoom, and generates a live transcript, as well as an audio recording and a…
Resources for Building Community
Our teaching and our students’ learning benefit from a feeling of community in our classrooms. The sooner that feeling is created the better, but getting there can be difficult when our students are learning remotely, quarantined, and experiencing a mix of…
Distracted Minds: Your Classroom Can Be a Retreat in Dark Times
In a recent post in the Chronicle of Higher Education, James Lang offers an encouraging message about the ways in which faculty members can create a course environment that values attention and counters the many distractions of this traumatic year.…
Colgate Faculty Roundtable: Reading Remotely
In this session, a panel of Colgate colleagues from the Arts & Humanities, the Social Sciences, the Natural Sciences, and University Studies, share how they cracked the conundrum of teaching texts in the remote classroom. Their techniques range from the…
