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As your fall semester begins, please consider signing up for an asynchronous Innovative Teaching Lab at the CTL: Aligning Self with Teaching or Active Learning with Jason Lagapa, professional development lead at the CTL. Each lab is designed to require minimal commitment (focused on just a handful of readings) yet...

Fostering Equity During the week of August 9th - 13th, the Center for Teaching & Learning hosted our first Equitable Teaching Conference (ETC). The participants and facilitators began each session by focusing on this definition of equitable classrooms: “spaces where everyone (teachers, students, teaching assistants) has what they need to...

Students and faculty are returning to campus this semester after a year and a half of educational disruptions and adaptations precipitated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Among the many concerns about how our students are faring, colleges and universities are thinking about learning loss. New students are joining us in person...

Entrepreneurial Environments is an undergraduate course for junior and senior students in Entrepreneurship. This course aims to provide students with an understanding of the entrepreneurial process and how to think like an entrepreneur. It gives future entrepreneurs tools and information for evaluating opportunities and developing strategies for starting innovation-based ventures...

Sometimes it is necessary to re-think the courses we teach in a fundamental way. By 2019, I had taught a survey course on British history before 1660 (HIST 1113) for a decade. Although I tweaked the course every time I taught it and received respectable feedback from FCQs, I was...

In PSCI 3211 The Politics of Economic Inequality in the U.S. , the goals of the course include: understanding the political causes of economic inequality; identifying the political factors that cause or alleviate economic inequality; and considering political changes that could reduce forms of economic inequality that are unfair and/or...

Congratulations to CU Boulder Graduate School award winners, including those recognized for Teaching Appreciation Awards! These awards recognize excellent graduate student teachers for their hard work, creativity, and continued excellence in teaching.

With Maymester just around the corner, OIT publishes some tips for summer instructors to make the most of Canvas and help anyone teaching get off to a smooth start.

One would be forgiven for not wanting to look back on the 2020-21 academic year. Perhaps the only sure way of meeting whatever difficulties lie in store for academia, however, is to review our actions, particularly while appreciating the courage and resilience that our students repeatedly demonstrated.

I am writing this on a snowy-rainy day, but summer is on the horizon. While you ponder your fall classes with your feet soaking in a mountain stream this summer, it might also be a good time to consider your course assessment strategies. What is worth keeping and what will...