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The Teaching and Learning Commons (TLC) provides teaching support and resources for faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows. TLC staff collaborate with campus partners to assist instructors in enhancing their teaching tools, whether on campus or online, to deepen student learning.
TLC Spotlight Events and Services
Congratulations to the 2023 Teaching and Service Honor Awardees!
Four WVU faculty — John Ruppert, Megan Midcap, Emily Murphy and Cerasela Zoica Dinu — have been recognized for their exceptional contributions to teaching and service. Visit the Mountaineer Enews website for details of their accomplishments.
Teaching and Service Honor Award Announcement
#ChatGPT
Our guess is that your inbox has been quite busy lately with pings related to ChatGPT. Any time a new technology gains prominence it impacts teaching and learning. ChatGPT (and generative artificial intelligence in general) is certainly no different, and we all have questions related to what now?
Our AI in Teaching and Learning webpage provides information and resources on ChatGPT and similar tools to help answer some of those questions.
AI in Teaching and Learning Webpage
Award for excellence in advising to one of our own!
Fang Yang, teaching associate professor in the Eberly College of Arts and
Sciences’ School of Mathematical and Data Sciences and a TLC Faculty Associate,
has been awarded the Nicholas Evans Award for Faculty Advising Excellence.
Visit the Mathematical and Data Sciences website to read more about Fang
Yang and her recent accolade here.
Award Announcement Webpage
Inclusive STEM Teaching Project
The Inclusive STEM Teaching project is an NSF funded, free, asynchronous EdX Course that is designed to advance ability and awareness for cultivating inclusive STEM learning environments. It is being offered online from March 6 through April 28. WVU is pairing this with a local learning community in Spring 2023 in Morgantown and on Zoom with the goal of creating a collaborative network of WV educators and improving STEM teaching at WV colleges and universities.
To express interest, please fill out this form.
Questions? Email Dana Huebert Lima, Department of Biology at djhuebertlima@mail.wvu.edu.
Interest Form Inclusive STEM Teaching Website
MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES
The Teaching and Learning Commons strives to curate resources for our instructors to help promote health and wellness for our campus community. Being more informed of the various support services available can make us all better responders should we encounter someone at risk. For example, the WVU CARE Team provides assistance and interventions as referrals are made to help students and the WVU community.
What do we do when a student is in crisis? Help Sheet
Make a CARE Referral
Full list of Resources
Providing Reasonable Accommodations
Accommodating students who are in quarantine, isolation, or are symptomatic but undiagnosed, is challenging and will be unique to your course and students. “Reasonable accommodations” should be made but those actions will vary by course, activity, and learning outcome. These accommodations should give students the information and assignments necessary to achieve the course goals.
The Teaching and Learning Commons has compiled a few things to take into consideration
when evaluating accommodation options. Visit our accommodation page for some
ideas on meeting these challenges.
Providing Reasonable Accommodations Webpage
WVU Press Adds a New Title on Equity and Inclusivity in the College Classroom
Written by and for college teachers,
Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom
provides guidance on ways to address privilege and implicit bias in the college classroom.
It also describes ways to make all students feel welcome and included. The
authors are highly regarded specialists who have delivered over a hundred workshops
on inclusive pedagogy and who contribute frequently to public conversations
on the topic. For more information or to buy,
visit the WVU Press website.
Visit WVU Press Webpage
Finding Instructor Feedback on eCampus
Instructor feedback is a valuable tool in student learning. Most instructors take the time to craft meaningful responses to student work. But if students cannot access that feedback, or find it easily, the value of this tool is greatly diminished. To spare students any potential frustration of having to search for your input on their assignments in eCampus, consider being proactive and sharing the View Feedback From Instructors training page and/or this video with your students, ideally, at the very beginning of the semester. For students who prefer to read instructions, you can share the transcript.
Finding Instructor Feedback in eCampus Resource Page and Video
Did you know?
We have a video catalog, which contains recordings on a wide variety of topics. Whether you want to know more about Tips for Teaching Online Labs, Testing in eCampus, Keeping Your Students Awake, or Re-Thinking Course Level Assessments, you will find a treasure trove of topics and information in our video catalog. Check it out!
Video Catalog
Event and Workshop Calendar
Upcoming Events
Visit our Event and Workshop page or the full calendar to view all events.
Please note that recordings of previously held webinars are on our Video Catalog page.
