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Faculty Spotlight on Dual Modality – Rebecca Shakespeare

January 14, 2021January 26, 2021 Teaching@Tufts

by Heather Dwyer, Assistant Director CELT Faculty experiences in Fall 2020 proved that teaching in dual modality is a lot

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Active Learning Diversity Equity and Inclusion Inclusive Teaching Student Engagement 

Inclusive Teaching Tips (Big and Small!) From P3’s Student Partners

December 2, 2020August 13, 2021 Teaching@Tufts

By Langley Topper ‘21, Jillian Impastato ‘21, Eve Abraha ‘21, Kamar Godoy ‘22, Michelle Nguyen ‘22, Kianie Ramirez ‘22, and

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Active Learning Group Work Online Courses Online Discussion Teaching Online Teaching Techniques 

Helping students work in groups remotely

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020 Teaching@Tufts

By Alicia Russell, CELT Group activities help students develop a variety of skills that can prepare them for future jobs,

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Student in Fletcher's Global Master's of Arts Program (Jake Belcher/Tufts University)
Active Learning Flipped Classroom Learning Objectives Setting Expectations Video Tools for Teaching 

Helping Students Learn from Lecture Capture

August 2, 2019February 24, 2020 Staff

By Carie Cardamone, Associate Director, CELT As more instructors use lecture capture technologies to record videos of class sessions, students

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Active Learning Mindfulness Student Engagement Teaching Techniques Visual Learning 

Taking Notes: is the pen mightier than the keyboard? It depends!

March 8, 2019April 1, 2019 Staff

By Carie Cardamone, PhD, Associate Director of STEM & Professional Schools, Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching “Experts—or those who have deconstructed what experts do—take

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Active Learning In-Class Polling Large Classes Question Design Student Engagement 

Student Engagement in Large Classes with Poll Everywhere

November 26, 2018April 11, 2019 Staff

By ETS and CELT Staff In a hall filled with 100 or more students, in-class polling and active learning strategies

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Active Learning Educational Technology Services Health Sciences In-Class Polling Large Classes Visual Learning 

Instructional Technology for Student Engagement in Learning Anatomy

June 8, 2017April 11, 2019 Teaching@Tufts

Dr. Jeffrey Marchant, Research Assistant Professor of Integrative Physiology & Pathobiology at TUSM, joined the 2016-2017 Instructional Technology Exploration Program

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Active Learning Collaborative Learning 

Using WebEx to Enable Students to Screen-Share for Teaching Econometrics

May 30, 2017November 20, 2018 Teaching@Tufts

Professor Jeffrey Zabel used WebEx in class to enable graduate students to “screen-share” with one another, as part of teaching

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Recent Posts

  • Journal-Based Grading in a Mathematics Course
  • Ungrading a Graduate Data Analysis Course
  • Creating a Creative Final Project – Big Bang To Humankind
  • The Overwhelmed Brain: Attending To Your Own Well-Being
  • Interrogating our assumptions about assessments
  • Balancing Flexibility and Rigor to Advance Equity in Course Design
  • There are no quick fixes in JEDI work
  • We Teach Humans, Not Content: Stepping off the Hamster Wheel

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