Summer 2020: Inclusive learning environments promote connectivity and growth while creating experiences and spaces for all learners to thrive. The Boston University faculty panel share their diversity, equity and inclusion perspectives for the remote teaching and learning landscape, and offer a variety of inclusive teaching strategies.
Summer 2020: Remote teaching is only half the story. Students in leadership roles, undergraduate and graduate students, share their remote learning experiences, discuss what they miss about the on-campus experience, and elements of remote instruction they most appreciate.
Mental Health During Unprecedented Times
Summer 2020: Remote instruction requires more than slides and discussions—it requires interaction and connectivity with students. The Boston University faculty panel shares their experiences teaching in a remote environment and offers strategies to strengthen classroom community.
Fall 2020: 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: 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.
We Have One Job! Be Inclusive!
Summer 2020: 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: 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: 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.