Resources

Accessibility Essentials Checklist

Use this checklist to address essentials and learn more about accessibility and universal design for learning (UDL) with the Accessibility and UDL Instructor Resource developed by the CTT in collaboration with the Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD), Instructional Technology Services (ITS), and Institutional Equity and Compliance (IEC).

Inclusive Teaching

Inclusive Teaching is a philosophy based on the premise of ensuring students have the same access to education

Individual Activity Ideas

Get ideas for individual activities such as one-minute essays or using the muddiest point technique

Additional Materials for Inclusive Teaching

Inclusive teaching involves understanding complex topics that can difficult to learn how to navigate. Included are some resources to help.

Providing Guidance in Inclusiveness

Inclusivity in education has never been more important or more possible. Use this guide to aid you in developing your courses as well as yourself to achieve more welcoming and effective learning environments.

Supplemental guidelines and considerations for accessibility

In addition to the guidelines for links, images/video, and tables, there are supplemental guidelines and considerations for making your course accessible.

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) is the concept that teaching and learning needs to be treated similarly to other forms of scholarship

Group Activity Ideas

Get ideas for how to get group activities started off

Techniques for Large Enrollment

Large enrollment courses and lectures can be challenging when it comes to creating a welcoming learning environment that promotes student engagement.

Integrating Technology

Knute Broady Collection: Ideas for Integrating Technology.

Additional Materials

Visualize ways to deal with large enrollment courses with video options

Active Learning

Information and techniques to include students in the learning process and increase students' attention and retention. (Knute Broady Collection)

Additional Materials for Active Learning

TEDx Talks can be an excellent way to see how others make use of active learning techniques. 

Remote Teaching Assessment Guide

Moving to remote teaching provides you an opportunity to rethink some of your assessments. This guide will discuss various ways that you can assess students in an online environment.

Classroom Assessment

Assessment is how an instructor learns what a student does or does not know about the course material.

Assessment Techniques

Knute Broady Collection: Ideas for Assessment Techniques.

Fresh Voices on Active Learning

The Fresh Voices sections of the Knute Broady Collection aim to highlight recent publications and the work of emerging scholars.

Large Enrollment Courses

Instructors of large enrollment courses face challenges of scale such as student engagement, authentic assessment, and providing personalized feedback.

Summative Assessment Ideas

Knute Broady Collection: Ideas for summative assessment.

Fresh Voices on Assessment

Highlighting recent publications, the Fresh Voices section of the Knute Broady Collection aims to showcase the work of emerging scholars. 

Student Engagement

Engaging students increases students' psychological investment in their own learning and retention leading to increased learning outcomes

Formative Assessment Ideas

Knute Broady Collection: Ideas for Formative Assessment.

Fresh Voices on Course Design

The Fresh Voices sections of the Knute Broady Collection aim to highlight recent publications and the work of emerging scholars

Instructional Materials

In an online environment, carefully planned material is how you will keep your students engaged and on task to meet your learning outcomes.

Course Design

Course design is the careful planning of a course such that the learning goals are aligned with assessments and learning activities.

Grading Tips

Grading can be an essential tool for evaluating student performance and this resource has tips to get you started.

Fresh Voices on Student Engagement

The Fresh Voices sections of the Knute Broady Collection aim to highlight recent publications and the work of emerging scholars

Getting Started

Learn where to start with some basics of an online classroom.

Why Practice SoTL?

Contributing to SoTL, scholars are sharing norms, expectations, previous practices, and new ideas in a unifying platform

Additional Materials - Assessment

Need a new read? Check out the Center for Transformative Teaching's library and recommended readings.

Fresh Voices on Inclusive Teaching

Highlighting emerging scholars, Fresh Voices promotes inclusive, innovative, and effective teaching methods.

Course Structure and Organization

Learn the basics of Canvas such as organizing lesson plans and communicating with students

Examples of SoTL at UNL

SoTL is most valuable as it is built over time and answers important questions and challenges facing academia. Here is how UNL faculty are contributing to this conversation.

Course Planning

A good way to keep course planning from becoming overwhelming is to break the process into steps

Fresh Voices on Large Enrollment Courses

The Fresh Voices sections of the Knute Broady Collection aim to highlight recent publications and the work of emerging scholars