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July 7 - July 27, 2025 Short Course Description This course is an introduction to retrieval practice teaching methods. Retrieval practice focuses on improving long-term learning. We help students retrieve through deliberate recall of skills and knowledge, spaced out over time, and reviewed along with other concepts. More than 100 years of educational research in... Continue Reading →

July 14 - August 3, 2025 Short Course Description In this class, participants are expected to bring a specific Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Inquiry Question and preliminary literature review of the topic. From there, participants will explore evidence approaches (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods), select an appropriate tool from that evidence approach, determine... Continue Reading →

July 14 - August 3, 2025 Short Course Description This short course is sequentially designed to encourage reflection about the structural conditions that inform who we are and how we relate to others. Module 1 explores our individual position within the historical and systemic structures of privilege and oppression, and how those affect our values... Continue Reading →

July 21 - August 10, 2025 Short Course In this three-week short course you will learn essential strategies for building an effective course with technology (D2L Brightspace). Each module includes two key strategies for student success: Module 1: Planning to Build and Start Here Module Module 2: Welcoming Course Homepage and Grades and Feedback Module... Continue Reading →

July 28 - August 17, 2025 Short Course Description  In this course, we will review and enhance the design of your course to support student learning. We will focus on the key strategy of alignment. Alignment ensures that course content, activities, and assessments are directly connected to the learning objectives. This approach assures that students... Continue Reading →