Formative assessment refers to a wide range of low-stakes, ongoing activities used during instruction to gauge students’ understanding, provide feedback, and guide next steps in teaching and learning (Sambell et al., 2012). Its purpose is not to grade or label …
Ágúst Magnússon, Senior Teaching Faculty in Philosophy creates podcasts for his students to engage with course material differently, in ways that fit into student schedules and do not keep them tightly connected to their screens. How does he do it? …
NotebookLM’s Audio Overview is an innovative AI-powered feature that transforms uploaded documents, such as research papers, articles, or presentations, into engaging, podcast-style audio summaries. Rather than simply converting text to speech, it simulates a conversation between two AI hosts who discuss the main ideas …
This is the area where we use all of what we’ve gathered from the past three blogs to lessen the redundancy of lectures and help students draw more value from the coursework given. Here’s how we can do it: Move …
This step can be thought of as the same as or similar to the first blog in the series on gathering information to create in-class support structures. What we are trying to do now is to collect information to integrate …
Now that we’ve gathered important information for students, we can create a support structure that tries to solve a student’s problem: the need to go to a third-party source or elsewhere to support their learning. This step will require the …
A foundational step for engaging students in coursework is to ensure that instructors create clear and transparent guideposts for students in a course. This clarity in foundational design provides the framework from which the other elements addressed in the blog …
Rick, Undergraduate student blog series The following series was written by an undergraduate UWM student on the type of learning, instructional activities, educational design, and pedagogical support they want to experience in courses. They came to CETL with their ideas, …
The federal government’s Title IV financial aid regulations require that we document participation for students receiving F grades. Please follow the guidance below to reduce improper allocation of federal aid and protect UWM from audit risks and liabilities. You can …
In Fall 2024, Academic Affairs and the Center for Advancing Student Learning (CASL) hosted over 220 faculty and staff in departmental teams to develop scalable action plans for improving student success and learning at UWM via intentional action at the …