Celebration, Collaboration and Care

MU Teaching for Learning Center helps lead the way in impactful online learning.

Leveraging the Neuroscience of Now

This feeling of world-weariness that my student expressed is not uncommon. The social isolation and loneliness of the COVID-19 pandemic present significant emotional and physical health risks that make us feel disconnected and put us on high alert, triggering the body's stress response.

2020 Celebration of Teaching – Celebrating Our Community in a Season of Disruption

A Virtual Celebration of Teaching

5 Low-Tech, Time-Saving Ways to Teach Online During Covid-19

Uncomplicated Online Tools for Student-Centered Asynchronous Learning

While ZOOM meetings may include active or gamified elements, they are still teacher-centered. Instead, let’s offer active student-centered approaches which lead to increased student performance and improved learning outcomes. Here’s how to do this online

How to Be a Better Online Teacher

Going Online in a Hurry: What to Do and Where to Start

Week 3, Day 1: How to Help Them Thrive with Distance Learning.

How do we do our best to structure the learning so that more of our students can thrive in the distance environment, and achieve learning that will stick with them? Four Suggestions.

Week 2, Day 8: Spring “Shelter-In-Place” Break.

During this Spring “Shelter-In-Place” Break, you can register for meet-ups with colleagues and our team. We have sessions scheduled for each day the week, and you can find details via the Gateway. You’re more than welcome to pop in for partial sessions. We are all finding out about Zoom-room fatigue—the struggle is real.

Week 1, Day 3: Your second day of the soft launch started out well if you caught a different viral sensation…

Your second day of the soft launch started out well if you caught a different viral sensation on YouTube with S&T Professor Mike Bruenig. His adaptation of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” is pure awesomeness.