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While talking about “Small Teaching Strategies to Help Students Engage and Learn,” author and educator Flower Darby encouraged University of Central Missouri faculty members to nurture their own health and emotional well-being as a way to maintain their motivation for teaching and building connections with students.

The University of Central Missouri Faculty Senate Teaching and Research Conference is supported by the Faculty Senate and the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. The theme for this year’s conference on Monday, Sept. 18 is “Strengthening Our Practice; Empowering Our Students.” This one-day event includes 20 breakout sessions, conducted by university faculty members; a discussion event with topic-based tables; and free box lunch and coffee stations all day. Flower ...

This week: I share ideas from Susan Hrach, author of the new book Minding Bodies: How Physical Space, Sensation, and Movement Affect Learning, for teaching in person or online. I pass along an idea for changing your college’s teaching culture. I link to some recent writing on teaching you may have missed. Education, Embodied When Susan Hrach was wrapping up her new book on the connection between physicality and learning, she figured it would be tough to get professors to adopt its recommenda...

March 16, 2021 Online learning is still new to most instructors and students. Despite the fact that classes across Cornell and the globe have been taught online for years, only a small minority were accustomed to this learning format prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cameron Clark/Provided Flower Darby As instructors and students are still adjusting to the online format imposed on them at the outbreak of the pandemic a year ago, the Cornell Online Learning Community (COLC) asked speakers ...