One-Minute Stretch Breaks From McGill Athletics & Recreation
In September 2020, when the Fall semester was beginning, and it was clear that remote learning was here to stayContinue Reading
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McGill’s Cloud Directive: The all-weather business of protecting students’ privacy and intellectual property
A Cloud Directive is not the business of forecasters who seek to manipulate the weather, but it is the business of McGill instructors in that they play a role in protecting their students’ personal information andContinue Reading
Labflow: One Tool, Multiple Learning Environments
McGill University is enthusiastically planning to welcome students back to campus in Fall 2021. The plans include considering where andContinue Reading
Undergrads Address their Science Questions at Poster Showcase
Have you wondered about the differences between fluorescence and phosphorescence? About the role of bone marrow in understanding disease andContinue Reading
A Year Since Lockdown: From Pedagogical Solitude to Community Conversations
Co-authors: Eva Dobler, Jennie Ferris, Carolyn Samuel We are three colleagues who do educational development work at McGill University’s TeachingContinue Reading
Have You Completed Our Blog Reader Survey?
What blog content do you find most valuable? What would like to see more of? We’d love to hear fromContinue Reading
Remote Learning Assistants Help Instructors and Students Adapt to the Remote Delivery of Courses
McGill University hired 169 students to work as Remote Learning Assistants (RLAs) for the Fall 2020 semester, new technical supportContinue Reading
Text-Matching to Teach Students What Constitutes Plagiarism and How to Avoid It
As of January 2021, McGill University instructors can enable Urkund/Ouriginal in myCourses (McGill’s LMS). Urkund/Ouriginal is a text-matching tool integratedContinue Reading
Should Individual Instructors Be Recognized for Going “Above and Beyond” during a Pandemic?
The idea of recognizing individual instructors for going “above and beyond” with their teaching efforts during the pandemic has beenContinue Reading
Teaching and Learning Remotely: A Year in Review
As we mark one-year since universities transitioned to remote teaching and learning, some would argue that all groups involved –Continue Reading
Include Course Evaluation Questions that Elicit Specific Feedback
The pandemic-imposed shift to remote teaching in higher education has inspired many instructors to implement teaching strategies, including feedback andContinue Reading