This site is a working prototype intended to highlight the benefits of offering a teaching hub for faculty and teaching assistants. What can you find here? Critical campus updates, announcements and event calendars Contact information for EdTech and IT support units Aggregation of timely teaching and learning content drawn from across campus units, and subject […]
Spring 2021 Annual Faculty Retreat – March 11-12
The theme of this year’s retreat is “Creating Wicked Students… Now and Beyond.” As instructors, we all desire our students to be ready and able to create positive change for the world and society.The future is unknown, as are the challenges ahead and possible solutions. These challenges, or wicked problems, require out of necessity that […]
Active Learning: A Practical Guide for College Faculty
Fans of the popular teaching blog Faculty Focus or The Teaching Professor newsletter will recognize Maryellen Weimer, long-time author and professor emerita at Penn State Berks.Active Learning: A Practical Guide for College Faculty is a collection of two to three-page articles, most of them published previously, discussing proven methods for building and maintaining active learning in the classroom. Each piece […]
cPanel Reboot on 2/24/21
On Wednesday, 2/24/2021at 11:59pm, the cPanel system will be rebooted. Access to the cPanel dashboard and to hosted websites will be unavailable while the system reboots. We expect service to resume by 12:10am but have reserved the window from midnight until 1am to resolve any unexpected issues that may arise.
Keep Your Zoom Meetings Secure
If you are working remotely, Zoom has probably become a useful communication tool for you. By now you are aware that you must use a personal password and two-factor authentication (2FA) to log in to your university Zoom account. Recently, a third layer of protection was added that requires you to sign in with Single Sign-On (SSO). (To […]
Synchronous – vs – Asynchronous Communications
This three minute video offers insight into the benefits and need for intentionality when using these different communication strategies.