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Classroom Polling Helps Humanities Students Find Their Voice

Classroom Polling Helps Humanities Students Find Their Voice

by Mohammad Ahmed | Jul 1, 2021 | Faculty Success Stories

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

Estimating the Universe: Blogging as a Pedagogical Tool in Astrophysics

by Thomas Keith | May 25, 2021 | Faculty Success Stories, Instructional design

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...
Mind-Mapping Software Makes Musical Connections

Mind-Mapping Software Makes Musical Connections

by Thomas Keith | Aug 8, 2019 | Faculty Success Stories, Instructional design

Mind-mapping tools allow the user to organize multiple items of information in the form of a map or web, visualizing relationships and making connections between data.  George Adams, a doctoral candidate in Music and fellow with the Chicago Center for Teaching (CCT),...
Implementing the Flipped-Classroom Model in Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast — A Progress Report

Implementing the Flipped-Classroom Model in Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast — A Progress Report

by Thomas Keith | Apr 18, 2019 | Faculty Success Stories, Instructional design

The “flipped-classroom” model of pedagogy, replacing in-class lectures with active learning, is rapidly growing in popularity within higher education.  At the University of Chicago, Academic Technology Solutions has been working with Prof. Dorian Abbot of Geophysical...
Canvas Conferencing Allows for Remote Classroom on a Snow Day

Canvas Conferencing Allows for Remote Classroom on a Snow Day

by Thomas Keith | Mar 12, 2019 | Faculty Success Stories, Instructional design

Canvas Conferencing is a powerful built-in Canvas tool that makes it possible for faculty and instructors to hold classes and office hours remotely.  For Thomas J. Lee, a lecturer at the Harris School of Public Policy, Canvas Conferencing proved to be a life-saver...
Live Streaming Creates Opportunities for More MAPSS Students

Live Streaming Creates Opportunities for More MAPSS Students

by lynnb | Mar 12, 2019 | A/V Equipment, Faculty Success Stories

Alert: Kaltura will be retired as a service on December 27, 2019. For more information, please visit: Panopto Is UChicago’s New Video Management Platform A month prior to the start of Autumn Quarter 2018, the leadership in the UChicago MAPSS (Master of Arts Program in...
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