Now that we are back from Thanksgiving break, finals are looming and our students, hopefully, will already have a study plan in place. This is likely not the case for plenty of our students and we know from our own experiences that prioritizing tasks and following an effective time management strategy is difficult. We can […]
Teaching Squares Returns for Spring 2025
Our office is excited to be partnering with the College of Arts & Science’s Academic Affairs team for a second year to offer the Teaching Squares peer observation opportunity in Spring 2025. Teaching Squares is a non-evaluative, informal peer observation program that has been used for more than two decades at many different types of […]
Faculty Showcase: OER in AJO
Each semester, we in the A&S Office of Teaching Excellence & Innovation grow more impressed by the dedicated efforts of our faculty. One of the most recent examples comes from Adam Penenberg in the American Journalism Online (AJO) program. AJO is A&S’s first and only fully online graduate program. Over the summer, Adam dedicated significant […]
FLASH FORC: A One-Day Gen AI Skills Opportunity in Jterm
NYU Data Services (NYU Libraries and IT), the Graduate School of Arts & Science Master’s College, and the Arts & Sciences Office of Teaching Excellence and Innovation are excited to launch a new extension of the Foundations of Research Computing (FORC) Camp training opportunity for graduate students! Given the strong interest in data skills development […]
Get to Know Your Students – Mid-Semester Surveys
It’s that time of the semester when faculty, students, all of us are feeling the pressure of our workloads. We look at our syllabi, wondering if we still have time to cover everything, we look at the stacks of ungraded student assignments and wonder how we’re going to make the sprint to Thanksgiving break. Certainly, […]
What are Learning Analytics?
Terms like “learning analytics” and “data-informed teaching” have been thrown around quite a bit in last several years. But what do they mean? The Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) define learning analytics as, “the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and […]
Peer Pedagogy Support: Faculty Learning Communities
For most faculty, peers are the most trusted source of information and support about teaching, but it can be hard to find formal and informal pathways to build and sustain those connections. Peer observation, mentorship, and faculty learning communities are some of the ways institutions have tried to help by providing a formal program with […]
Managing course materials for adaptability, sustainability, and refinement
With a new academic year beginning, many readers have already done various tasks to manage the course materials on their NYU Brightspace course site. These tasks might include: Carefully managing these tasks will help you effectively complete the setup work required each semester for building your course site. With this in mind, it is important […]
New Office Website
We’re happy to announce that we’ve got a brand-new website! Not only does it look new and swanky (if we do say so ourselves), but we’ve also organized our resources and support services. Our efforts in doing so help us further align with the office’s transition from the Office of Educational Technology to the Office […]
Summer 2024 FORC Camp Success
From August 28th to August 30th, eighty-two graduate students participated in the second Foundations of Research Computing (FORC) Camp. Through the collaboration of the Graduate School of Arts & Science Master’s College, NYU Data Services (NYU Libraries and IT), and the Office of Teaching Excellence and Innovation, the free training program focused on the development […]