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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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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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 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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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 blended and 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
Simple Tips for Engaging Students in Zoom | Boland and Major, 2021
A guide with practical tips for promoting student engagement while teaching in remote and blended modalities.
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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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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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Ways to Utilize Collaborative Documents to Enable Active Learning Opportunities
Ways to Utilize Collaborative Documents to Enable Active Learning Opportunities | University of Richmond Faculty Hub
Online collaboration tools are a great way to get students actively engaged with course material. This guide provides some of the Hub’s favorite collaboration-focused activities.
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Ways to Utilize Polling Tools in the Blended Classroom
Ways to Utilize Polling Tools in the Blended Classroom | Faculty Hub University of Richmond
Tip sheet created by Faculty Hub Technology Consultant Andrew Bell for using polling tools in the blended classroom
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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.
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First Day of Class
Carnegie Mellon University | Make the Most of the First Day of Class: https://www.cmu.edu/teaching/designteach/teach/firstday.html
Chronicle of Higher Education | How to Teach a Good First Day of Class: https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/advice-firstday
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Syllabus Creation
Chronicle of Higher Education | How to Create a Syllabus: https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/advice-syllabus
Chronicle of Higher Education | The 3 Essential Functions of Your Syllabus, Part 1: https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-3-Essential-Functions-of/190243/
Chronicle of Higher Education | The 3 Essential Functions of Your Syllabus, Part 2: https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-3-Essential-Functions-of/228909
University of Michigan | Creating Your Syllabus: http://www.crlt.umich.edu/gsis/p2_1
Accessible Syllabus | Resources to Promote Student Engagement and Agency: https://www.accessiblesyllabus.com
University of Richmond, Academic Skills | Describes academic and personal support services for students at UR: https://richmond.box.com/s/q25l8ydxct2ghw3d3uehop5bzhlc72ma
University of Richmond, Center for Awareness, Response, and Education | Resources for the prevention, support, and reporting of sexual misconduct on campus: https://prevent.richmond.edu
University of Richmond, Religious Observances Calendar | Lists significant holidays from the five largest global faith traditions: https://registrar.richmond.edu/planning/religious-observance.html