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.
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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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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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Fink's taxonomy of significant learning
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Motivational syllabus
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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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