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Ebook: 4 Student Roles that Promote Collaborative Learning

Nicholas Panasik, PhD, shares strategies for collaborative learning using four specific student roles that help connect them to the material.

Protected: From Surviving to Thriving: Overcoming Teacher Burnout

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Ebook: Practices in Anti-Racist Pedagogy

Angel Montoya, EdD, offers resources and practical strategies for educators looking to create more inclusive and equitable classrooms.

Ebook: Practices in Digital Pedagogy: Evaluating Digital Tools

Jesse Stommel, PhD, provides practical guidance on evaluating the accessibility of digital tools, and how to make informed decisions when selecting tools for use in the classroom.

Ebook: Cultivating a Sense of Belonging in Your Classes

Lalaine Sevillano, PhD, shares practical strategies for empowering students, creating an inclusive classroom, and fostering community.

Feeling Alone in College? Here’s How to Find Your Community.

Dr. Nicole C. Jones Young shares how students can navigate the social landscape of college and build meaningful connections.

5 Ways Students Can Stay Motivated in Online Courses

Dr. Angelita Howard shares 5 quick tips on how students can feel more connected and motivated in their online courses.

Creating a Supportive Classroom Environment: Advice from Educators

Faculty share their experiences, insights, and strategies for creating a safe and supportive learning environment for students.

5 Honest Self-Care Tips from Educators

5 honest insights from faculty who learned how to prioritize their health and well-being in the midst of their busy schedules

Ebook: How to Help Students Bridge Cultural Gaps

Nicole Young, PhD, provides a series of exercises to help broaden students’ appreciation of diverse perspectives and responses.

5 Tips for Using Group Work to Foster Classroom Community

Educators share five group work strategies to create a learning environment that promotes collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity.

8 Tips for Creating a Capstone Project Your Students Will Love

Here are 8 tips for creating a capstone project that is both engaging and meaningful for students.

6 Classroom Icebreakers to Improve Student Engagement

Here are six classroom icebreakers recommended by instructors for helping students feel more comfortable and fostering a sense of community.

Educator Spotlight: An Interview with Joab Corey

How did you know that you wanted to teach? That was something I kind of fell into. I actually worked for 10 years at my father’s produce warehouse loading and unloading trucks starting at the age of 12 up till the end of my undergraduate career as an economics major. I really kind of fell … Continued

35 Teaching Resources Recommended by Your Colleagues

We asked our community of educators to share their go-to resources for teaching and improving student engagement.

Ebook: Modality Matters: Building Course Experiences with Care and Confidence

Martha Burtis of Plymouth State University shares teaching strategies for building course experiences with intention across modalities.

6 Teachers on TikTok You Should Be Following

With millions of students on TikTok, it's the perfect channel for providing learning content. Here are 6 TikTok influencers that are helping college students and teachers learn and thrive in the classroom.

How I Use Course Hero as an Educator

See how educators across disciplines use Course Hero to find new ways for engaging and assessing students.

Educator Feature: Dr. Ciara Reyes-Ton

Dr. Ciara Reyes-Ton is a biologist, science writer, and editor. She is currently the Digital Content Editor for BioLogos and an Adjunct Professor at Lipscomb University.

Educator Feature: Dr. Gaye Theresa Johnson

Gaye Theresa Johnson is a Professor of African American Studies and Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Ebook: Creating a Syllabus Your Students Will Read

Stephanie Speicher, PhD, shares five principles of humanizing syllabus design and provides a checklist for teachers to design syllabi that generate curiosity for course content.

Ebook: Pedagogies of Care: The Human Work of Course Design

Jesse Stommel, PhD, provides an activity book that will help teachers understand the intersections of inclusive design, critical pedagogy, and the practice of teaching today’s students.

How to Apply for Student Loan Forgiveness—and Why It Matters (2022)

Dr. Norma Hernandez provides a list of resources and step-by-step instructions on applying for the special waiver for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and the one-time cancellation of $10,000 ($20,000 for Pell grant recipients).

Ebook: Practical Strategies for Culturally Responsive Teaching

Jill Purdy, EdD, shares several essential components of culturally responsive teaching, such as funds of knowledge and Universal Design for Learning.

Ebook: Build Deliberate Practice in Your Students—in Any Course

Ben Wiggins, PhD, shares how he leverages evidence-based techniques to provide opportunities for students to practice critical skills in a low-stakes but high-impact format.

Teaching Resources from Course Hero’s Education Summit ’22

View resources shared by speakers of Course Hero's Education Summit '22

Ebook: Teaching Your Students with Care in a Volatile World

Alka Arora, PhD, shares how faculty can better respond to and support students’ needs as they contend with challenging world events.

Ebook: Accessibility Tips for Invisible Barriers in Class

Malynda Mabbitt, EdD, shares how teachers can help students with invisible barriers feel empowered and motivated, even on their most challenging days.

Building Community in the Classroom: A Conversation with Dr. Michael J. Sorrell

Dr. Michael Sorrell, President of Paul Quinn College, recently sat down with Bridget Burns, CEO of the University Innovation Alliance, to talk about how he has successfully built community on his campus and in the classroom.

What Students Are Saying About Learning Today

College students share what works (and what doesn't) when it comes to learning and staying engaged.

VIDEO: Grading with Heart: How to Design Authentic Assessments and Rubrics

Stephanie Speicher, PhD, shares research-based strategies to create relevant, authentic, and real-world assessments and rubrics that can be aligned to your course.

Ebook: The Power of Self-Assessment: How to Help Students with the REDO Technique

Fabiola Torres provides strategies for students to Reflect, Edit, Discover, and Observe their own performance so they can articulate their own learning patterns and identify obstacles.

Ebook: 3 Effective TikTok Projects to Engage Your Students

Angelita Howard, EdD, MBA-PM, MA, outlines three TikTok classroom project ideas she uses with her students to improve engagement.

Teaching for Equity and with Empathy

Dr. Jessica Calarco highlights the challenges and inequities students face during the COVID-19 pandemic.

How to Manage Stress and Compassion Fatigue, While Engaging Students Online

To address faculty burnout, Course Hero invited a panel of instructors & experts to discuss ways to manage stress, & engaging students online.

What Role Do Universities Play in Supporting Their Students?

Course Hero invited a panel of four college students to talk about their experiences with stress and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic.

How Faculty Can Lead Through Challenging Times

Dr. Freeman Hrabowski and Dr. Kelly Richmond Pope, discuss how to lead as an educator through challenging times.

ASU+GSV Session—WATCH: Believe It or Not: I Am a Better Teacher Now: The Unexpected Upside of Teaching in a Pandemic

This session, co-produced with Course Hero, took place during the 2020 ASU+GSV Summit.

How I Use Course Hero as a Student

See how students across the country utilize Course Hero to help get them get unstuck and study more effectively.

The Bond Between Social Justice and the Classroom Experience

Professor Jonathan Cabrera shares how to draw on personal experiences regarding social justice and finding ways on how to include them in class.

Creative Strategies for Giving Online Critiques

Marie Mallory, PhD, offers tips and techniques for educators who would like to learn how to give feedback in friendly and creative ways.

TailorEd: Student Learning Outcomes

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the State of Higher Education track.

Teaching and Learning Center Meetup

Aditi Pai's session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the Professional Development and Well-Being track. 

Gamifying Game Theory: Helping Students Reflect on the Lecture Before the Lecture

Mike Shor's session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the Teaching Techniques and Demos track.

Double Digit Win: Using Web Assignments to Engage Students and Improve Performance

JD Schramm's session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the Student-Centered Teaching track.

Community College Meetup

Herb Coleman's session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the State of Higher Education track.

Open Mic Night Biology Style: Troubleshoot Your Pedagogical Approaches

Jennifer Robison's session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the Community Building track.

What Do I Do with THIS? Revamping Inherited Teaching Materials

Ben Wiggins' session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the Professional Development and Well-Being track.

Classroom Theatrics: Interactive Methods to Connect and Engage in Online Learning

Gillian McNally's session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the Online Teaching track.

Can Experiential Learning Be a Virtual Reality? Discuss.

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the Teaching Techniques and Demos track.

Supporting The “Road Scholar”: Strategies for Fostering Adjunct Inclusivity as a Department Lead

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the Professional Development and Well-Being track

Yours, Mine, and Ours: Addressing Student, Educator, and Collective Mental Health in Times of Crisis

Mary McNaughton-Cassil's session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the Student-Centered Teaching track.

Mathematics Educator Meetup

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the Community Building track.

Decolonizing the Literature Classroom

Cristina Dahl's session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the Teaching Techniques and Demos track.

Synchronous vs. Asynchronous: Lessons from an Educator Teaching Online since 1994

John DeJoy's session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the Online Teaching track.

Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education: Making HBCUs, HSIs, and MSIs Part of the Larger Conversation

Jalaal Hayes' session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the State of Higher Education track.

Intangible Assets: 3 Tips to Revamp Your Accounting Course

Kelly Pope's session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the Teaching Techniques and Demos track.

State of the Student Under COVID-19: Latest Research and Insights. Followed by Student Impact Panel.

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the Student-Centered Teaching track.

Experiment from Home: Helping Chemistry Students Turn Living Rooms into Laboratories

Donald Storer's session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the Teaching Techniques and Demos track.

DAY TWO: RESET — Student-Centered Teaching: Educator Exchange: Sharing Revenue for Shared Resources

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the general session.

So You Implemented an Innovative Teaching Intervention, Now What?: Best Practices for Disseminating Findings

Lisa Bosman's session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the Professional Development and Well-Being track.

The New Jim Crow: Using Racial Justice to Integrate Quantitative Literacy Across the Curriculum

Victor Piercey's session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the State of Higher Education track.

Literature in the Time of Coronavirus

Mark Schoenfield's session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the Community Building track.

Micro-techniques for Macro-engagement: Lightning Talks on Teaching Approaches in Biology

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the Teaching Techniques and Demos track.

Going with the Flow: Lessons in Flexibility in the Classroom

Anjala Krishen's session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the Teaching Techniques and Demos track.

Gen Z and the Academy: Student Perspectives on Course Hero and the Landscape of Education Technology

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the Community Building track.

Demystifying Marketing for Academics

Marcus Collins' session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the Professional Development and Well-Being track.

Meeting Students’ Basic Needs: From Community Colleges, to Four-Year Universities, to Graduate School

Norma Hernandez's session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the Student-Centered Teaching track.

Why and How Educators Can Grow Their Entrepreneurial Mindset

Lisa Bosman's session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the Professional Development and Well-Being track.

Teaching Effective Thinking Through Mathematics

Michael Starbird's session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as part of the Teaching Techniques and Demos track.

#NoFilter: Connecting with the Social Media Generation Using Instagram

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the Online Teaching track.

Marrying the Sciences and Humanities: Interdisciplinary Scholarship in the Age of COVID

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the State of Higher Education track.

Design Thinking in Education: Empathy, Opportunity, and Ideation

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the Community Building track.

Course Materials That Last: Collaborative Workshop in Creating Versatile Assignments

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the Online Teaching track.

VIDEO: Student-Centered Teaching: How Practice Builds our Hidden Learning System

Barbara Oakley's session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit as a part of the general session.

Addressing Students’ Basic Needs with a Culture of Caring

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as part of the general session.

Video: Redesigning Learning for Virtual Collaborative Spaces

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the Online Teaching track.

The First Week of Class: Building a Virtual Learning Community

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the Student-Centered Teaching track.

Thinking Outside the Box to Engage Nursing Students

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, Teaching Techniques and Demos track.

Creative Assessments for Online Learning

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the Online Teaching track.

Lunch & Learn: Q&A with President Michael Sorrell, Paul Quinn College

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the general session.

DAY THREE: REINVENT – “Leadership” vs. “leadership”

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the general session.

DAY THREE: REINVENT – Unleashing Faculty Innovation: People, Pedagogy, and Practice

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the general session.

Trading Spaces: Designing Virtual Learning Environments Using Google Slides

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the Online Teaching track.

DAY TWO: RESET — Student-Centered Teaching: Student-Centric Institutions: Adapting and Evolving to Meet the Needs of Today’s Students

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the general session.

Online Engagement Techniques 101: A Quick Introduction to Zoom and Other Teaching Tools

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the Online Teaching track.

Black Presence Matters: Pandemic, Protest, and the Urgency of Online Education

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the State of Higher Education track.

Showing Up Online: A Workshop on Virtual Presence

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the Professional Development and Well-Being track.

What Happens In September? Perspectives on the Impact of COVID-19

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the State of Higher Education track.

Engaging Underprepared Students: Before, During, and After the COVID Era

This session took place during Course Hero’s 2020 virtual Education Summit, from July 29-31, as a part of the Student-Centered Teaching track.

VIDEO: What Happens in September? COVID-19 & Social Justice in Higher Education

Almost 900 viewers watched as university leaders, and educators shared their predictions on what will happen if schools return to campus in the fall.

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