Faculty Voices

Fall 2020 Speaker Series: Teaching and learning in LfA modalities bring new challenges for faculty and students, with many faculty needing to re-imagine their approaches to class activities and assignments. During this fall 2020, late semester review, faculty presenters share experiences and highlight ways they adjusted their teaching for hybrid and remote classes.

Spring 2021 Speaker Series: Remote and hybrid classrooms have highlighted the kind of class inequities that have always existed but have been easy to ignore in higher education. This Lightning Talk session, offered in collaboration with BU Diversity & Inclusion and its Learn More series’ theme of social class, focuses on areas of practice and content that help us understand the myriad ways that class plays out in our classrooms, with strategies to create more inclusive classes.

Summer 2020 Speaker Series: Many classes across both BU campuses incorporate elements of project-based, team, and experiential learning. What are the challenges for faculty working with these pedagogical models in the remote-learning space? The faculty panel shares their strategies for adapting these active-learning approaches to the remote-teaching environment.

Fall 2020 Speaker Series: Teaching and learning in LfA modalities bring new challenges for faculty and students, with many faculty needing to re-imagine their approaches to class activities and assignments. During this fall 2020, mid-semester review, faculty presenters share experiences and highlight ways they adjusted their teaching for hybrid and remote classes.

Summer 2020 Speaker Series: A hands-on classroom experience is the academic foundation for many disciplines. But how can faculty inject experiential learning techniques when teaching online? The faculty panel shares their challenges and successes in the lab, studio, music and art rooms, and highlight ways to bring the “hands-on” experience to the online classroom.

Summer 2020 Speaker Series: Assessment tasks, whether they be exams, projects, or other assignments, are of equal importance to faculty and students. The faculty panel shares a variety of approaches to assessment tasks, with some strategies for managing assessment in the remote-learning environment.

 Published April 2017 Gisela Hocherl-Alden, Assistant Dean and Director of Language Instruction, CAS Boston University College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) continually invests in advancing language resources for faculty and students. One of the latest innovations is providing students and faculty with individualized oral assessments. Geddes is also an early adopter of the MyMedia […]

Questrom School of Business is innovating with digital learning technology to accommodate the changing needs of its professional students. In 2017, the school worked with Digital Learning & Innovation to fund and create a classroom specially equipped to enable faculty and students to hold classes and breakout sessions online.