Faculty Development Resources
This page archives resources the Faculty Hub has generated and provides a curated list of external resources vetted by Faculty Hub staff. It is designed to work through two filters: Type and Category. Each resource can be tagged with multiple categories for easy searchability.
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6 Tips for Creating Engaging Video Lectures That Students Will Actually Watch
6 Tips for Creating Engaging Video Lectures That Students Will Actually Watch | Temple University
Suggestions to help faculty create video lectures that engage students in active learning, while giving you information to assess their understanding of course concepts.
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99 Tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos
99 Tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos | Costa, 2020
An e-book, available through Boatwright Library collections, that guides faculty through creating engaging videos that can help "build regular, positive, and interactive relationships" with their students.
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About Universal Design for Learning
About Universal Design for Learning | CAST
The Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) website offers a detailed overview and a wealth of resources to learn more about UDL. This website includes their UDL Guidelines, a tool that instructors can be use to implement UDL within their specific learning environment and/or course context.
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Active Learning Strategies
Active Learning Strategies | Berkeley Center for Teaching and Learning
An annotated list of active learning strategies.
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Accessible Syllabus Project
Accessible Syllabus Project | Womack, 2015
This web resource serves as a tool to help instructors apply concepts of accessible design to their course syllabus.
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Blackboard Course Design Example
Blackboard Course Design Example | Faculty Hub University of Richmond
A guide from the Faculty Hub about effectively organizing and designing Blackboard courses.
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Creating Effective Learning Assessments
Creating Effective Learning Assessments | LinkedIn Learning
This short online course produced by LinkedIn Learning offers an overview of learning assessments followed by modules on assessment types, impartiality and perception of fairness, and how to create learning assessments.
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Designing an Online Course
Designing an Online Course | Mesa Community College Center for Teaching and Learning
How to guide for creating an effetive online (only) course by Mesa Community College
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Distracted - Book Talk
Distracted - Book Talk (requires UR faculty/staff account) | James Lang for UR’s Faculty Hub
A presentation James Lang gave about his new book "Distract: Why Students Can’t focus and What You can Do About It" during the spring 2021 semester.
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First Day of Class
How to Teach a Good First Day of Class | Chronicle of Higher Education
An article that provides best practices for teaching a good first day of class.
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Guide for Inclusive Teaching at Columbia
Guide for Inclusive Teaching at Columbia | Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning
This 30-page, downloadable guide offers an overview of five principles of inclusive teaching – including practical strategies for each principle – for faculty to consider as they work to create more inclusive learning experiences for their students.
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Guide to Pedagogies and Strategies
Guide to Pedagogies and Strategies | Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching
A guide that covers pedagogies and strategies for interactive lecturing (classroom response systems, digital textbooks, flipping the classroom, PowerPoints, and visual thinking) and active learning (various topics).
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Guide to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
Guide to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) | Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching
A guide to SoTL including sections on Understanding SoTL and Doing SoTL.
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How to Create a Syllabus
How to Create a Syllabus | Gannon, 2018
This teaching guide from the Chronicle of Higher Education examines each component of the course syllabus, offering suggestions and strategies for helping faculty think intentionally about how to build a syllabus to meet the needs of their specific course and teaching context.
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How to Hold a Better Class Discussion
How to Hold a Better Class Discussion | Chronicle of Higher Education
This guide from the Chronicle of Higher Education covers why discussion matters, strategies, how to keep discussion on track, common challenges, and resources.
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How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive
How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive | Sathy and Hogan, 2019
This guide from The Chronicle of Higher Education is organized around common questions, key principles, and strategies faculty can use to interact with students, design courses, and assess teaching all with inclusivity in mind.
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How to Make Time for Research and Writing
How to Make Time for Research and Writing | Chronicle of Higher Education
An article about being intentional with your writing and making it a part of your daily routine.
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Inclusive Pedagogy: Getting Started
Inclusive Pedagogy: Getting Started | Chicago Center for Teaching
This web resource offers an overview of principles/practices that faculty can use to try to make their teaching more inclusive.
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Inclusive Teaching
Inclusive Teaching | Dewsbury and Brame, 2019
This article from the journal CBE—Life Sciences Education offers an overview of inclusive teaching with a focus on STEM teaching contexts.
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Inclusive Teaching Resources and Strategies
Inclusive Teaching Resources and Strategies | University of Michigan CRIT
This web resource from the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) at the University of Michigan provides links out to a wealth of resources and research produced by the CRLT on the topic of inclusive teaching.
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Learning How to Increase Learner Engagement
Learning How to Increase Learner Engagement | LinkedIn Learning
Help set learners up for success by teaching in a more interactive and immersive way. In this hour and a half long course, professor and instructional designer Karl Kapp explores teaching strategies that engage learners and make learning stick—whether you’re teaching face-to-face or in an online classroom setting.
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Learn When Absent from Class
Learn When Absent from Class | University of Richmond
This resource was created during the fall 2021 semester to share ideas for helping students learn even when they could not attend in-person class.
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Make Super Simple Videos for Your Online Class
Make Super Simple Videos for Your Online Class | Wesch 2020
An ~11-minute video that covers the whys and hows for incorporating video into your course. Geared towards online classes but useful for faculty teaching in-person modalities as well.
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Making Time for Faculty Scholarship
Chronicle of Higher Education| How to Make Time for Research and Writing: https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-to-Make-Time-for-Research/239724
Inside Higher Ed| Making Time for Research: https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2016/01/15/tips-help-midcareer-faculty-members-find-time-research-projects-essay
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Making Time for Research
Making Time for Research | Inside Higher Ed
Two professors from UMass Amherst talked with midcareer faculty members to identify the challenges they’ve confronted, as well as four key strategies to surmount those challenges.
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Multimedia Presentation Design Guide
Multimedia Presentation Design Guide | Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching
An article that provides general guidelines for slide design, suggestions for how to use slides more effectively, and links to design resources and tutorials.
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Rules for the Accessibility Checker
Rules for the Accessibility Checker | Microsoft Office Support
A knowledge base article that describes how and why to use the Accessibility Checker, part of the Microsoft Office suite that finds accessibility issues in your documents and suggests solutions for how to resolve them.
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Simple Tips for Engaging Students in Zoom When Teaching Remotely
Simple Tips for Engaging Students in Zoom | Boland and Major, 2021
A guide with practical tips for promoting student engagement while teaching in remotely.
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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and Discipline-Based Educational Research (DBER)
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and Discipline-Based Educational Research (DBER) | University of Central Florida Faculty Center
Tips for getting started on SoTL research, resources on SoTL, and examples of UCF faculty SoTL research.
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Syllabus Design
Syllabus Design | Riviere, Picard, and Coble, 2014
This teaching guide from Vanderbilt’s Center for Teaching offers a general overview of the purpose and function of the course syllabus, discusses how the tone of a syllabus can impact learners, and offers examples of sample policies and resources.
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Syllabus Insert Regarding Academic and Personal Support Services
Syllabus Insert Regarding Academic and Personal Support Services | Academic Skills Center
This resource by Hope Walton (Director of Academic Skills Center) includes a syllabus insert that describes the various services and resources available to students at the University of Richmond.
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Teaching & Learning Tips: Accessibility Resources
Teaching & Learning Tips: Accessibility Resources | University of Illinois Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning
Best practices, resources, and help documents designed to aid faculty in making digital teaching materials more accessible.
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The Honor Councils
The Honor Councils | University of Richmond
The homepage of the University of Richmond’s Honor Councils offers information about the history of The Honor System at UR, a link to the Honor Code itself, and details for faculty and students about Honor System processes.
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Tips and Tricks for Creating Accessible Video Lectures
Tips and Tricks for Creating Accessible Video Lectures | Arizona State University
Recording lecture videos can be a powerful way to share your knowledge and establish a rapport with your students. Unfortunately, these videos can pose challenges to students with certain disabilities if specific design considerations are not met. This guide provides tips for creating accessible video lectures.
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Universal Design for Learning for Learning and Instruction
Universal Design for Learning and Instruction | Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning
This web resource by Dartmouth’s Center for the Advancement of Learning offers an overview of the UDL guidelines and offers suggestions for how to apply those guidelines to your course design and teaching practices.
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UR Faculty Handbook
UR Faculty Handbook | University of Richmond
This webpage provides access to the current version of the University fo Richmond’s Faculty Handbook as well as information about the creation, implementation, and archival history of this important document.
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Writing Effective Learning Objectives
Writing Effective Learning Objectives | Johns Hopkins University
A brief blog post on how to write effective learning objectives from Macie Hall at Johns Hopkins University.
Social Annotation Tools | Faculty Hub University of Richmond
A guide from the Faculty Hub for selecting a social annotation tool (such as Hypothesis or Perusall) for students to collectively comment on course readings.