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Opportunity to apply for CUNY Open Education Publishing Institute
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York has just announced its call for participants for the Summer 2024 Open Education Publishing Institute:... More
BU Faculty Contribute to International Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Contributed by Malavika Shetty, CAS Writing Program/College of General Studies Faculty from the Writing Program, along with BU libraries on the Charles River campus, and the... More
Reflecting on Reflecting
Contributed by Jean Otsuki, Associate Director, CTL I recently had the opportunity to attend a meeting of the New England Faculty Developer Consortium, where I participated in... More
Some thoughts on English grammar assessment from a non-native speaker
Contributed by Federica Bocchi, PhD Candidate in Philosophy of Science (5-minute read) In her previous blog post, Maya discussed the tension between recognizing the importance of grammatical... More
Putting Grammar Back In: Linguistically-Responsive Writing Instruction
Contributed by Maya Chakravorty, Ph.D Candidate in Classical Studies (3-minute read) As a graduate fellow with BU’s Writing Program, I had the pleasure of attending the workshop... More
Why Diversity at Conferences Matters
Contributed by Maria Valadez Ingersoll, Ph.D student at BU URBAN Program (4 minute read) As graduate students, attending conferences is an important chance for us to contribute... More
UDL Learning Community: Applications Open
CTL and Digital Learning & Innovation (DL&I) invite faculty to join a year-long Learning Community on Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Learning Community participants will meet... More
Spring Workshops on Writing and Feedback
Christina Michaud and Marisa Milanese, Master Lecturers from the CAS Writing Program, will co-facilitate two workshops in early spring. Workshop 1: Putting Grammar Back In: Linguistically-Responsive... More
Fostering Intrinsic Motivation In Introductory Classes
Fostering students’ motivation to learn is complicated in intro classes with a highly heterogeneous demographic. Learn ways to foster your student's intrinsic motivation.
(Contributed by Federica Bocchi.)
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Using Self-Explanation in an Introductory Biology Lab
Explores how to implement self-explanation to enable students to apply theories they have learned in lecture to the living biological world.
(Contributed by Maria Valadez Ingersoll.)
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