We're pleased to present the latest issue of The Prospect (Issue 8), a CNDLS publication designed to highlight innovative teaching practice at Georgetown.
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illustration by Clare Reid Sometimes, it just isn’t possible to have synchronous class sessions with our students. Between bandwidth issues, time-zone challenges, and general questions of accessibility and even privacy, often asynchronous videos are a better option for both you and your students in an online course environment. However, while we may know how to… Read more »
illustration by Clare Reid All of us, including people in higher education, are eager for this COVID-19 crisis to be over; many are just looking forward to things getting back to normal. But some folks suggest that the world—including the world of higher education—may not ever be the same after this experience. And, as David… Read more »
illustration by Clare Reid What we are facing in these times is monumental: moving what we are doing into a distance delivery format online. The task at hand feels in a lot of ways insurmountable; we all know and have read that a regularly-scheduled and planned online course takes 6-12 months to properly design and… Read more »
illustration by Clare Reid We are teaching in extraordinary and challenging times. Students are starting to share stories about the immense stress and trauma they are experiencing. During these times, we must be even more devoted than ever to our Ignatian pedagogy values, especially cura personalis. One way to live out this devotion is to… Read more »
illustration by Clare Reid People may be thinking more than usual about teaching online, given the spread of COVID-19 and the possibility that classes may by necessity become temporarily virtual—and great learning can happen in online courses, but only if students stay engaged. Unfortunately, the online space can be one where students more easily disengage…. Read more »
illustration by Clare Reid Our students, by and large, are terrified of failure. In consultation after consultation, I help faculty in a variety of ways try to design learning experiences that allow for students to fail, but to do so productively, safely, and to start to be ok with that failure. Failure is one of… Read more »
illustration by Clare Reid Yes! David Labaree’s 2019 book A Perfect Mess (U Chicago Press) is the concise history of higher education in America that I’ve been wanting to read. Far more than a mere taxonomy of institutions (though I was tickled to learn what “A&M” actually means—er meant!), we get a history of the… Read more »
illustration by Clare Reid Are teaching and learning things we do to our students, or with our students? Catherine Bovill, a Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement and member of the Learning and Teaching Team at the Institute for Faculty Development at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and currently a Fullbright Fellow at Elon University, thinks… Read more »
illustration by Clare Reid A positive classroom climate—one in which students feel personally connected to one another and where they feel respected and seen by the professor—can feel like a luxury. But, as Barr reminds us in his 2016 review of the literature (IDEA Center), climate matters.
Illustration by Clare Reid In my previous review of Safiya U. Noble’s book Algorithms of Oppression, I suggested that we needed to do better at teaching critical literacy skills. But how? I want to share a couple of resources today that were created especially for educators looking to incorporate critical digital literacy skills into their… Read more »
