Focus Area: Universal Design
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Accessible Pedagogy Community of Practice
Faculty and staff interested in developing and sharing strategies for accessible pedagogy have been gathering over the past few semesters to talk about inclusive teaching. Convened by Matthew Unangst, PhD (Assistant Professor, History, and OEI Faculty Fellow), the group has been meeting monthly to explore resources, discuss existing policies, and prepare for changes related to…
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January Workshops 2025
In the week before the semester begins, the Faculty Center for Teaching, Learning & Scholarship offers a series of workshops and sessions designed to support teaching and learning for staff and faculty. We try to be responsive to the needs of our community as we develop our programming. If you have a suggestion for a…
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Scaffolding for student success
Discussion, as a whole class and in small groups, has always been a vital part of my classroom practice. Sometimes, though, when I pose a question to get things started, students don’t answer right away. Maybe we’re trying to identify unspoken assumptions so that we can evaluate them: “why do people go to college?” Maybe…
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Backward design: Keeping goals in view
Since education policy leaders Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe published Understanding by Design in 1998, backward design has dominated conversations about best practices in curriculum planning, both in US schools and in higher education. Simply put, backward design encourages you to begin your course prep at the end, by first identifying what you want students…
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Building in formative assessment
In the wake of high-stakes testing culture, education researchers have come to promote assessment practices that emphasize formative evaluation. Unlike a summative assessment, which measures student performance at the end of a course or a unit, a formative assessment helps you and your students take stock of achievements in the midst of instruction. Rather than…
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Engaging students: Collaboration in the classroom
After years of remote and hybrid instruction, students are both excited to work with others and nervous about how to. Faculty can help students find supported paths to making connections in the classroom. Collaborative learning encourages students get to know each other, gives them a chance to grapple with unfamiliar insights or viewpoints, and can…
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Introducing Teaching Foundations: A Series on Pedagogy
Collaboration, Inclusive & Global Learning, Project Based Learning, Student Engagement, Universal DesignWelcome to Teaching Foundations, a new content series devoted to sharing pedagogy resources responsive to our moment with teaching faculty at SUNY Oneonta. I’m Racheal Fest, and I’m excited to join our campus community this semester, supporting faculty pedagogy in the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center. I bring a background in critical pedagogy, student success…
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Course Refresh Weekly Challenge Week 2 – Accessible Materials
This 6-week challenge will help faculty focus on specific tasks to work on for your fall courses as we prepare for the possibility of different teaching modalities. Each challenge is based on the TLTC’s simplified OSCQR (OPEN SUNY Course Quality Rubric) checklist. We hope that as you build your course, the checklist is helpful as some…
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Course Refresh Weekly Challenge Week 1 – Course Organization
The Course Refresh 6-week Challenge is built to help faculty focus on specific tasks to work on for your fall courses as we prepare for the possibility of different teaching modalities. Each challenge is based on the TLTC’s simplified OSCQR (OPEN SUNY Course Quality Rubric) checklist. We hope that as you build your course(s), the checklist is helpful as some of the points are simple and mechanical and…
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Using LaTeX with Blackboard
Dr. Keith Jones, Mathematics Department, SUNY Oneonta, LaTeX is the universal standard for typesetting mathematical communications; so any subject that involves the use of equations can benefit from LaTeX. Blackboard technically has built-in LaTeX support, but it is very poor. It generates image files which it loads onto the webpage, which is frankly not acceptable for current-generation webpages. These…
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