Category: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Dispel Your Hidden Curriculum with Transparent Assignment Design

February 7, 2024 by Cheri Madewell

Identify easy ways to incorporate Transparent Assignment Design in your course. Thinking back on my first online courses I developed in Blackboard over a decade ago, the assignment instructions and other context that I provided were fairly minimal. I didn’t recognize that my learners needed more. I was primarily focused on the content. As a […]

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My Journey with Equitable Grading Practices

September 20, 2023 by Josh Mannix

Learn about one instructor’s participation in a Faculty Learning Community and how it led to a positive experience with ungrading in their classroom. As an educator, I have long struggled with the notion of letter grades and even percentages in the classroom. In this blog, I reflect on my grading practices and student feedback after […]

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There Is No Perfect Length for Instructional Videos

July 12, 2023 by Eva Grouling Snider

Arguments for a particular length of instructional videos miss the mark: engaging video can be any length, from less than a minute to more than an hour. If you listen to the commonly accepted wisdom, every instructional video would be a TED Talk: polished production values and a strict 10-15-minute time limit. In a previous […]

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A Non-Gamer’s Guide to Gamification Learning

June 28, 2023 by Cheri Madewell

Explore how a gamification for learning experience in one online course fostered empathy and communication skills. I’m not a gamer, but I have always been curious and intrigued by the possibilities of gamification for learning or games-based learning. In this blog, I share what a gamification for learning experience taught me about the power of […]

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Creating Space for Radical Openness in the LMS

April 5, 2023 by Shane Lanning (they/them)

How can we use digital space of an online LMS to work towards creating a space of Radical Openness for co-creating with students and engaging them in shaping the course? I recently stumbled upon a 2017 blog article by Dr. Jesse Stommel in which he considers what kind of Learning Management System (LMS) bell hooks […]

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The Siren Song of Comprehensiveness

February 22, 2023 by Eva Grouling Snider

Are teachers too focused on comprehensiveness, trying to cover everything about their topic? What would teaching look like if we all just taught a little less? How much should my students learn in my course? This may seem like a strange question—especially compared to the more salient what students should learn—but it’s been on my […]

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Teaching and Technology 2023

February 15, 2023 by Shane Lanning (they/them), Dan Jones

Learn more about the topics of the upcoming Teaching and Technology Summit and how to register for it. What does it mean to use technology effectively in the classroom? This is a question our team continually reflects on in our work. We want to support faculty in identifying and using technology with a deep pedagogical […]

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What We Can Learn from the Learning Styles Myth

February 1, 2023 by Eva Grouling Snider

Learning styles are a myth – the research is conclusive. What can we take away from this myth, though? What, if anything, can be salvaged from learning styles theory and its relation to empirically-backed learning theories? I have a confession to make. Until recently, I believed in learning styles. I may not have been a […]

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Opening Your Door (And Your Heart) to Peer Feedback

January 11, 2023 by Kathleen Jacobi, Sarah Ackermann

We know that teaching is a highly personal experience for faculty at Ball State, and that gaining feedback isn’t as easy as simply opening up your door for someone to peek inside. At Ball State we’ve put together structures and supports to facilitate a faculty-forward peer review program. Classroom observations are common practice in the […]

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I Was a Visual Learner. What Am I Now?

October 26, 2022 by Sarah Ackermann

Debunked or not, there is value in reflecting on our learning style. How can we support this kind of self-reflection from our students? It was June 2022, and I was attending a free event hosted by Adobe. As an Adobe School, Ball State faculty members and employees are invited to attend a variety of yearly […]

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