Promoting Student Success During a Pandemic and Beyond
Who are the students in this course? I get a lot of first year students, U0 or U1, and whileContinue Reading
Author: Carolyn Samuel
Senior Academic Associate at McGill's Teaching and Learning Services.; former Senior Faculty Lecturer at the McGill Writing Centre; area of specialization: Second Language Education; loves teaching and learning; will work for chocolate
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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
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
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
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
Teaching for Learning Blog: Reader Survey
The Teaching for Learning blog hosted by McGill University’s Teaching and Learning Services (TLS) addresses what matters in higher education,Continue Reading
Oh, the Places You’ll Go … with Virtual Story Maps
In the age of remote teaching and learning, how can we share knowledge in a way that is inspiring and engaging? YouContinue Reading
When Pandemic Teaching Goes Well
This post is a collaboration among Tina Piper, Mariela Tovar, and Carolyn Samuel. At a time when many instructors in higherContinue Reading
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