The biweekly newsletter of the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo
In case you missed it, this year, CLT’s annual symposium was fully virtual and extended over three half-days. The theme was “Inspiration and Innovation: Conversations Around Emerging Pedagogy in Our Next Normal”, and it included keynotes, workshops and a forum by international speakers
The pandemic, though tragic and debilitating, does nonetheless provide an opportunity for us to reexamine our approach to education, the ways we engage our students, and whether we are meeting our goals of quality learning. We shouldn’t let the difficult circumstances of the past year deter us
In this issue, we summarize two faculty members’ assessment practices, which they each discussed with CLT in an interview, and which we then transcribed and summarized.
This year has been an exceptionally challenging one for students and faculty alike. We have been preparing for it, sharing experiences and tips, making recommendations and inviting feedback from faculty members throughout the period of online instruction with the goal of improving the student learning experience
The time is right to begin incorporating podcasts into your courses, but before we dig into why and how, I’d like to
share a brief story of my own experience teaching with podcasts at the American University in Cairo (AUC).
I was a participant in the yearlong Design Thinking for Educators Program launched by CLT in January 2019. This involved participation in a series of bootcamps and workshops which introduced the participants to the Design Thinking process