Fall 2020 Course Evaluations: Creating Useful Questions

This CRLT blog covers everything you need to know about course evaluations this fall.

How are students coping with COVID-19?

The Faculty Lounge by Harvard Business Publishing regularly publishes articles of interest to faculty. How Are Students Coping with the Reality of a COVID-19 World? presents results of a study that are eye-opening.

7 Ways to Assess Students Online and Minimize Cheating

This Chronicle of Higher Education article presents strategies you can use to promote academic integrity in your virtual classroom.

Find the Right Balance Between Synchronous and Asynchronous Sessions

This post, by Dan Levy, senior lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School, is a quick read, full of lots of great advice for how best to use synchronous and asynchronous online sessions. Most of his advice is also applicable in dental education.

National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity

The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity provides webinars that are recorded and can be viewed at your leisure. You can join NCFDD under the University of Michigan’s system-wide membership and have free access to all NCFDD resources. Follow this link and click on "Join NCFDD". Please indicate your University of Michigan campus: Flint, Dearborn or Ann Arbor in the institutional dropdown menu and follow the directions to complete your free membership.

4 Ways to Have More Fun as a Faculty Member

See this Chronicle Vitae article that provides perspective and strategies for increasing your satisfaction and happiness as a faculty member.