Faculty Success Story: Leveraging the ATS Podcast Studio for Deeper Engagement with Portuguese Language Learners
This post is the first in a projected three-part series exploring innovative use of podcasting in the classroom by UChicago faculty and instructors. Parts two and three are forthcoming. Keeping students focused in classes and engaged with the material can be a real...
Create Reliable Supplemental Resources Using Custom Chatbots
While generative AI in higher education often brings to mind assistance (authorized or not) in achieving a final product or saving time at the cost of learning, many instructors are exploring the potential for using generative AI to create resources that support...
Using Active Learning Strategies to Engage Entrepreneurship Students
This post is part of an ongoing series to promote active learning strategies and teaching tools that can support instructors in using them. Academic Technology Solutions (ATS) is hosting the new active learning series Try IT: Academic Tech for Active Learning. The...
Classroom Polling Helps Humanities Students Find Their Voice
Matt Teichman, former Lecturer in Humanities, used Poll Everywhere to promote student engagement in his seminar-style “Language and the Human” course. He had his students come up with poll questions themselves and then used them as prompts at the beginning of...
Estimating the Universe: Blogging as a Pedagogical Tool in Astrophysics
Leslie Rogers, Assistant Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the College, used a Voices blog in her Fall 2020 undergraduate/graduate course “Order of Magnitude Astrophysics” as a tool to introduce her students to problem solving. In the...Subscribe by Email
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