CU Boulder educators all across campus are innovating, evolving, and refining their teaching practices. Here, we compile stories by, about, and for those educators.聽Find our most recent stories below, or browse聽postings by category聽in the menu navigation.聽Each month during the academic year the CTL and ASSETT publish聽a newsletter that includes timely teaching strategies and resources, updates, and upcoming events of interest to the campus teaching community.

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The Campus Culture Survey: What is it, and what do we hope to learn?

Sept. 28, 2021

Interview with Julie Volckens, Director of Assessment in the Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance & Stephanie Foster, Assessment Lead in the Center for Teaching & Learning - March 2021 Stephanie Foster "Hello! We're here today with Julie Volckens. Julie is going to talk with us a bit about the...

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Invitation to join an asynchronous Innovative Teaching Lab

Sept. 1, 2021

As your fall semester begins, please consider signing up for an asynchronous Innovative Teaching Lab at the CTL: Aligning Self with Teaching or Active Learning with Jason Lagapa, professional development lead at the CTL. Each lab is designed to require minimal commitment (focused on just a handful of readings) yet...

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Insights from the Equitable Teaching Conference

Sept. 1, 2021

During the week of August 9th - 13th, the Center for Teaching & Learning hosted our first Equitable Teaching Conference (ETC). The participants and facilitators began each session by focusing on this definition of equitable classrooms: 鈥渟paces where everyone (teachers, students, teaching assistants) has what they need to thrive鈥�. I...

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ASSETT joins the Center for Teaching and Learning!

Sept. 1, 2021

In case you haven鈥檛 heard, we wanted to spread the good news! Over the summer, Arts and Sciences Support of Education Through Technology (ASSETT) made the transition to become part of the Center for Teaching and Learning. While our mission, services and programming remain the same, we are now collaborating...

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Should we worry about learning loss?

Sept. 1, 2021

Students and faculty are returning to campus this semester after a year and a half of educational disruptions and adaptations precipitated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Among the many concerns about how our students are faring, colleges and universities are thinking about learning loss. New students are joining us in person...

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Case method in online entrepreneurship business courses

June 4, 2021

Entrepreneurial Environments is an undergraduate course for junior and senior students in Entrepreneurship. This course aims to provide students with an understanding of the entrepreneurial process and how to think like an entrepreneur. It gives future entrepreneurs tools and information for evaluating opportunities and developing strategies for starting innovation-based ventures...

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Re-thinking a survey course on British history

June 4, 2021

Sometimes it is necessary to re-think the courses we teach in a fundamental way. By 2019, I had taught a survey course on British history before 1660 (HIST 1113) for a decade. Although I tweaked the course every time I taught it and received respectable feedback from FCQs, I was...

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Using counterfactuals to understand causality and political change in political science

May 19, 2021

In PSCI 3211 The Politics of Economic Inequality in the U.S. , the goals of the course include: understanding the political causes of economic inequality; identifying the political factors that cause or alleviate economic inequality; and considering political changes that could reduce forms of economic inequality that are unfair and/or...

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From the Graduate School: Celebrating 2020-2021 Graduate School award recipients!

May 10, 2021

Congratulations to CU Boulder Graduate School award winners, including those recognized for Teaching Appreciation Awards! These awards recognize excellent graduate student teachers for their hard work, creativity, and continued excellence in teaching.

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From OIT: Maymester start-of-semester Canvas tips

May 5, 2021

With Maymester just around the corner, OIT publishes some tips for summer instructors to make the most of Canvas and help anyone teaching get off to a smooth start.

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