Teaching Resources

If you have additional resources you would like added to this list please send them to Jenny Dauer at jenny.dauer@unl.edu

General Resources

Center for Transformative Teaching Resources

  1. Summer Institute for Online Teaching. https://teaching.unl.edu/summer-institute-online-teaching/ Another session will take place in June. Several SNR faculty participated in this workshop in May.
  2. Additional 1-2 hour workshops will be available in June and July
  3. They are open for consultation
  4. https://teaching.unl.edu/keep-teaching/
  5. https://teaching.unl.edu/flexible-hybrid-model-fall-2020-teaching-and-learning/

General Resources for Online Teaching

How to be a better teacher: advice guide

Chronicle of Higher Education

Useful introduction and a list of do’s and don’ts

https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/advice-online-teaching

Transforming Your Lectures into Online Videos

Advice for reconceptualizing their face-to-face lecture to an effective video-based format

We highly recommend no more than 20-30 minutes of lecture video at a time, and providing students with an active learning exercise for the remaining content.

https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/transforming-your-lectures-into-online-videos/

Humanizing Online Learning

https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/992783

Tools for Online Learning

UNL VidGrid 5 Step Session

VidGrid allows you to record your screen and a video of yourself at the same time, easy to use platform for recording PPT presentations. It is easy to also embed clicker-style or open-ended questions in the video.

https://canvas.unl.edu/courses/50519

Tips for Using Canvas Discussions

https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-10727-67952724152

Yellowdig

A discussion forum set up to be more social and to enhance engagement

Setup Tutorial

Instructor Certification Course

Field Online Learning Resources

Many great crowd-sourced resources for natural resources-related field and lecture courses

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16K6bGTf-wGjxxi6aGi_v6vlLQSpsOgl1zq3tXLHWweg/htmlview#

Online Tools for Teaching and Learning

https://blogs.umass.edu/onlinetools/

Resources for HyFlex Teaching

7 Things you should know about the Hyflex Course Model

A good introduction to HyFlex

https://library.educause.edu/-/media/files/library/2010/11/eli7066-pdf.pdf

10 Tips for Effective Online Discussions

https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2018/11/10-tips-for-effective-online-discussions

What You Should Know About HyFlex Blended Learning

Another good introduction to HyFlex

https://www.teachthought.com/learning/what-you-should-know-about-hyflex-blended-learning/

How a HyFlex Course Design Makes my Students’ Learning More Effective

A nice model for what worked in one classroom

https://www.profweb.ca/en/publications/real-life-stories/grammar-a-la-carte-how-a-hyflex-course-design-makes-my-students-learning-more-effective

Resources for Flipped Classrooms

A Guide to the Flipped Classroom” Chronicle of Higher Education

Download Guide

Edutopia compendium of resources on flipped courses

some K-12 oriented but still relevant

https://www.edutopia.org/topic/flipped-classroom

Simulations and Virtual Labs

Phet Simulations

https://phet.colorado.edu/_m/

NetLogo Simulations

https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/

Association for Biology Laboratories

http://www.ableweb.org/

Simulation Biology

https://simbio.com/

Virtual Biology Lab

http://virtualbiologylab.org/community-ecology/

SERC (Science Education Resource Center) at Carleton College

Lots of resources for applying evidence-based teaching, teaching activities, virtual labs etc.

https://serc.carleton.edu/index.html

Field Online Learning Resources

Many great crowd-sourced resources for natural resources-related field and lecture courses.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16K6bGTf-wGjxxi6aGi_v6vlLQSpsOgl1zq3tXLHWweg/htmlview#

Quick Videos

1.5 Minute Videos

Larkin Powell

Taking courses online during COVID19? Check out this quick help for restructuring what is left in your course!

Visit the YouTube Channel