Teaching & Learning Resources

Teaching & Learning Resources

• Center for Innovative Teaching (CIT)

  • OFD works collaboratively with the Center for Innovative Teaching and departments and colleges to support a university culture that values teaching. CIT's ongoing work includes faculty development seminars, public forums, student-faculty dialogues and conferences, faculty peer mentoring, and the promotion of scholarship on diversity, learning, and teaching.
  • Ways to Decolonize Your Syllabus at UMass Boston
  • Upcoming Event: CIT Spring 2023 Decolonizing Forum Series - Kickoff Forum on January 25, 2023 from 2 - 3:30 p.m. More Information Here

• Inclusive Identity Project

• Minimum Faculty Responsibilities

• Pedagogy Guide for Faculty Who Assign and Assess Writing

  • This  short guide  provides six effective teaching principles for faculty who assign and assess writing in their courses.

• Recommended Syllabus Sections

• Refining Your Meta-Synthesis Skills

• Syllabus Equity Audit

  • For educators who are looking for ways to close the gaps between privileged and minoritized students, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates how to improve the success of minoritized students through implementing an antiracist syllabus
  • Magna 20 Minute Mentors: How Can I Build an Antiracist Syllabus?, How Can I Build an Antiracist Syllabus?
    
    • includes certificate, handout, supplemental materials, and transcript for the video) is available online through Healey Library through the link above

• Teaching Linguistically-Diverse Learners: Approaches and Methods 

  • Video recording of workshop facilitated by Professor Vivian Zamel, Director of Composition and English as a Second Language, and winner of the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2011

• Textbook Affordability

  • COMING SOON!!  Many students are finding it hard to afford textbooks. The updated Strategies for Affordable Textbooks factsheet lays out a range of strategies that faculty and students can use to ensure that students obtain the necessary materials for their courses.

• Three-part Webinar for Latinx Students at UMass Boston

• University Conference on Teaching, Learning and Technology

  • Each year the OFD collaborates with the Healey Library, CIT, and IT/Ed Tech to host the annual teaching, learning & technology conference. Faculty are encouraged to both present and attend. The conference takes place on the Friday before exam week each May.