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Food for thought

A brand-new series from Teaching Commons that explores complex, emerging, and innovative theories and concepts in pedagogy through simple, easy-to-understand, and judiciously short three-pager handouts. Whether you are seeking a jumping board for expanding your professional horizons or merely looking for a quick summary of something you have barely heard of before, these handouts offer you a convenient first step by distilling hundreds of pages of professional literature into a compact resource.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

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Mental health in the classroom

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Culturally sustaining pedagogies

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Accessibility in teaching and learning

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Decolonizing teaching and learning

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Equity in teaching and learning

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Diversity in teaching and learning

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Inclusion in teaching and learning

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Bloom's taxonomy

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A Venn diagram of Fink's taxonomy composed of 6 intersecting circles that are labelled (clockwise) as 'Learning How to Learn', 'Foundational Knowledge', 'Application', 'Integration', 'Human  Dimension', and 'Caring', with a seventh item shown in the intersection of all 6 circles labelled 'Significant Learning'.

Fink's taxonomy of significant learning

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Motivational syllabus

Ungrading

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Peer assessment

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Students as partners

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Critical reflection

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Hyflex teaching and learning

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Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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21st century learning

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Digital literacy

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Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)

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