Teaching Effectively During Times of Disruption, for SIS and PWR
Teaching during times of potential disruption requires creative and flexible thinking about how instructors can support students in achieving essential core course learning objectives. This document offers suggestions for instructors in Stanford University’s PWR and Thinking Matters looking to continue offering a student-centered learning experience in a remote or online learning environment.
Supporting Student Success
Dr. Tricia Seifert’s blog is an ongoing home to guest writers who share their insights about learning, student development, and research.
Studying for exams
A study plan allows you to consider how much time you may need for different courses, distribute your review time, and ensure that all courses get some attention. A study plan reduces stress, helps you keep on track during the intense exam period, and prioritizes health and balancing activities.
Study Stack: Flashcards and Study Games
Author: Study Stack LLC Study Stack is a study tool that makes learning, memorizing information, and preparing for an exam, a fun, stress-free, and enjoyable experience. It offers existing flash cards and study games for different subjects. View Website
Student Guide to Online Learning
Author: York University Find the resources and supports to successfully navigate being an online learner. View Website
Student Guide to Group Work
This guide offers you an introductory video and three modules to help you engage in successful group work. Each module, shown below, contains a short video and a section titled Tips, Tools & Templates offering practical tips and downloadable checklists, activities, templates and more to help you engage in effective group work as part of coursework in a university context.
Spreeder
This website allows you to input a text and read it at any speed you would like (it’s interesting to see how much you can comprehend when there are words flashing quickly). I’ve used this for some long, simple readings and it allows me to get through them quickly.
Queering the Academy
Celebrating the contributions that queer students, staff, and scholars make to the academy and have invited our colleagues to consider how they can “Queer” their lectures, course materials, and content.
Patter Blog
A blog about academic research and writing, which includes many relevant tips and resources. As a PhD student myself, I’ve used strategies from the blog on many occasions!
Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
Author: Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education JLDHE is published by the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE), and is aimed at those interested in all aspects of how learning is facilitated and how it is experienced by students in higher education. For further details follow the link to the association’s website. View […]
International Center for Academic Integrity
Author: ICAI This website hosts a blog and other institutional resources on academic integrity. Of special help are the six values of academic integrity that move the discussion of integrity beyond just plagiarism. The six values speak to a practice of integrity rather than an avoidance of plagiarism. Rather than avoiding negative consequences, it’s an […]
Indigenous Academic Integrity
Designed to serve as a resource for Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, students, faculty, and community, the Indigenous Academic Integrity Project uses a multimodal approach to storytelling, including: oral, visual and written mediums.