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    • Teaching Communities

      Join a conversation group that focuses on a specific teaching topic

    • Apprenticeship in Teaching Program

      Teaching skills program designed for students who are teaching or TAing

    • Doyle Program on Engaging Difference

      Program for faculty on bringing conversations about difference into the classroom

    • Engelhard Project for Connecting Life and Learning

      Program for faculty on incorporating wellbeing activities and perspectives into the classroom

    • Online Programs

      Design and Develop Online Programs

    • Instructional Technology Aide (ITA) Program

      Program connecting faculty with students who provide technical support for online courses

    • Learning, Equity, Access, and Pedagogy Initiative

      New program for building and sustaining inclusive learning experiences

    • Past Programs and Initiatives

      Archive of former initiatives

      Institutes


    • Teaching, Learning and Innovation Summer Institute

      Annual multi-day institute exploring topics in pedagogy through workshops, keynotes, and more

    • Course Design Institute

      A self-paced offering of our 3-unit course on teaching in a hybrid or remote environment

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    • Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship

      Learn more about what we do

    • How to Get Help

      Have a chat with us in person, join virtual office hours, and other ways to get help with teaching

    • Inclusive Pedagogy Toolkit

      A collection of tips to guide your inclusive teaching practice

    • Digital Tools

      Explore teaching tools available to you at Georgetown

  • Services & Support

      For Faculty


    • Teaching Communities

      Opportunities to discuss teaching together

    • Funding Opportunities

      Enrich your teaching practice with extended support

    • Digital Learning Tools

      Explore tools and services offered at GU

    • Media and Web Development

      Work with us to explore and create custom media products

    • Assessment and Analytics

      Develop, align and assess learning goals and curricula

    • Workshops, Webinars and Events

      Explore our upcoming workshops, training, talks, and other events

    • Consultations

      Meet with us in online office hours or schedule 1:1 conversation

    • Inclusive Pedagogy

      Create an equitable, inclusive teaching environment

    • Digital Learning Days and Webinars

      Learn how to using digital tools in your teaching

      For Programs and Units


    • Consultations and Workshops

      Meet with us in online office hours or schedule 1:1 conversation

    • Program and Curricular Assessment

      Find answers to your program measurement questions

    • Online Program Development

      Work with us to create a set of online offerings

    • Classroom and Learning Spaces

      Spaces designed for flexible, multimodal teaching

      For Students


    • Apprenticeship in Teaching Program

      Teaching skills program designed for students who are teaching or TAing

    • University Resources

      Coming Soon

    Quick links

    • Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship

      Learn more about what we do

    • How to Get Help

      Have a chat with us in person, join virtual office hours, and other ways to get help with teaching

    • Inclusive Pedagogy Toolkit

      A collection of tips to guide your inclusive teaching practice

    • Digital Tools

      Explore teaching tools available to you at Georgetown

  • Teaching Resources

      Guides by Topic


    • Conducting Class

      Tips and support for the day-to-day of teaching class

    • Creating Courses and Curricula

      Ideas for designing your courses or course sequences

    • Designing for Inclusivity

      Resources to help you bring inclusive practices to your teaching

    • Assessment and Student Feedback

      Suggestions and ideas for authentic learning assessment

    • Teaching Across Modalities

      Tips and support for teaching in a variety of instructional modes

    • Teaching with Technology

      Resources and guidance on using technology in your teaching

    • Understanding Student Learning

      Scholarship and resources on the science of learning

      Resources


    • Inclusive Pedagogy Toolkit

      A collection of tips to guide your inclusive teaching practice

    • One-on-One Conversation on Teaching

      Chat with a CNDLS teaching professional and get help with your teaching

    • Inquiry and Scholarship

      What we're interested in learning more about and how you can get involved

    • Technology Tools and Apps

      Explore teaching tools available to you at Georgetown

    • A-Z Teaching Topics List

      Browse our alphabetized list of teaching topics

    • Instructional Continuity

      Teach effectively amid interruptions to face-to-face learning

    • CNDLS Podcast

      Conversations with students, faculty, and staff about teaching and learning in higher education

    Quick links

    • Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship

      Learn more about what we do

    • How to Get Help

      Have a chat with us in person, join virtual office hours, and other ways to get help with teaching

    • Inclusive Pedagogy Toolkit

      A collection of tips to guide your inclusive teaching practice

    • Digital Tools

      Explore teaching tools available to you at Georgetown

  • About

      About Us


    • About Us

      Our work and core commitments at a glance

    • Inquiry and Scholarship

      Learn about our focus areas and publications

    • CNDLS Blog

      Read our latest posts on teaching, learning and innovation

    • Annual Report

      Coming Soon

      Contact Us


    • Email

      cndls@georgetown.edu

    • Phone

      202-687-0625

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      3520 Prospect St. NW, Suite 314 Washington, DC 20007

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    • Our Team

      Meet CNDLS staff and collaborators

    • Advisory Board

    • CNDLS Alumni

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    • Work at CNDLS

      Join our vibrant and mission-driven team

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    • Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship

      Learn more about what we do

    • How to Get Help

      Have a chat with us in person, join virtual office hours, and other ways to get help with teaching

    • Inclusive Pedagogy Toolkit

      A collection of tips to guide your inclusive teaching practice

    • Digital Tools

      Explore teaching tools available to you at Georgetown

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  • Academic Resource Center

    The Academic Resource Center provides students with academic strategies and individualized support needed for academic success and inclusion within the Georgetown community.

  • Accommodations and Accessibility

    Designing courses that provide equitable learning experience for all students supports the Georgetown mission to care for the whole person through our teaching. By foregrounding …

  • Active Learning

    Active learning is an approach to education that does not consider students to be the passive recipients of knowledge transmitted from an expert, but rather, …

  • Alternative Modes of Grading

    One of our most important goals for our students is a deeper engagement with and investment in the subject matter. We want them to care …

  • Assessment Design

    Once you have clearly articulated learning goals for your course, you will need to figure out how to measure students’ progress toward those goals.The word …

  • Assignment Design

    A good assignment helps the professor and students pursue the learning goals of the course. Rather than starting with a prefabricated assignment, then, this is …

  • Asynchronous Engagement

    Sometimes students can't all meet in the classroom, for all sorts of reasons—but they can still have an opportunity to engage with course material. It’s …

  • Best Practices from Pandemic Teaching and Learning

    Communicate early and often.For many of us, the pandemic drove home the importance of communication. Staying in touch with your students makes it easier for …

  • Bottlenecks and Thresholds

    Introducing a new group of students to your subject area or to your discipline is challenging business. There are tricky concepts that they have to …

  • Building Community in a Remote Course

    Whether it is through discussion and dialogue, brainstorming, problem-solving, roleplays, or group presentations, interactions with peers create learning spaces where students can practice, refine, and …

  • Building Community Using Digital Tools

    Community and a sense of belonging are important factors in students’ academic success. We assume that community-building largely only happens when we are together in …

  • Chat GPT and Artificial Intelligence Tools

    As new tech such as ChatGPT emerges that can create and refine content (written text, code, problems), it is important to both familiarize yourself with …

  • Classroom and Equipment Services

    Lending PoliciesStudent Lending PoliciesStudents are not permitted to check out media such as videotapes, DVDs, or original CDs. They may, however, use them in the …

  • Classroom Assessment Techniques

    CNDLS offers a range of classroom and program assessment services to Georgetown faculty, graduate students, and administrators. These include designing and gathering customized mid- or …

  • Classroom Response Systems

    Polling systems and clickers foster interactive, responsive classrooms via live polling and Q&A during class. These softwares capture student responses and instantly tallies and produces …

  • Creating Your Syllabus

    The syllabus presents students with a first impression of your course. It offers many opportunities to share what the learning experience in your course will …

  • Designing and Teaching Seminar Courses

    Seminars—small classes typically driven by discussion and other forms of active learning and in which students often take on teaching roles and responsibilities—offer tremendous opportunities …

  • Designing Backward

    What goals do you have for your students? What is it that you want them to know—and what do you want them to be able …

  • Designing for Academic Integrity

    Set up the space from the beginning to encourage academic integrityCheating happens for a lot of different reasons, which means that it needs to be …

  • Designing Your Course in Canvas

    About CanvasA learning management system (LMS), like Canvas, provides students in a course with one single place to go to access course materials, submit assignments, …

  • Difficult Discussions

    Difficult discussions are an inescapable part of higher education. While certain topics lend themselves to more divisive conversations, difficult discussions can even crop up in …

  • Digital Assignment Design

    Assigning digital projects in lieu of, or in addition to, traditional pen-and-paper assignments, provides students with the opportunity to individualize their learning, work in non-traditional …

  • Eight Steps to Curricular Change

    This question guide is designed to introduce common questions and steps to curricular change to apply at both the course or curriculum level.Analyze current teaching …

  • Ending the Semester

    A semester is a marathon effort, and, by the time you reach the end of it, it’s quite possible that everyone—you and the students both—will …

  • Engaging Students in a Remote Course

    What do we mean by engagement?Student engagement generally refers to students’ level of investment, passion, and interest in the subject and course material, as well …

  • Experiential Learning

    What is Experiential Learning?Experiential learning’s central tenet is that “learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience. Knowledge results from …

  • Gathering Teaching Feedback

    Experienced teachers know that “How do I want class to go?” and “How is class actually going?” are two different questions, and both are worth …

  • Georgetown Counseling and Psychiatric Services

    CAPS serves the mental health care needs of students and the campus community from our location on the main campus.

  • Georgetown Diversity Resources

    Georgetown provides a strong network of diversity-related resources and services to support its campus community. Faculty, staff and administrators collaborate with students to foster a …

  • Georgetown Safety Net

    The Safety Net is a forum for submitting information about a student who may be experiencing a challenging situation and needs help connecting to the …

  • Grading Student Work

    From a student’s perspective, grading can seem like a mysterious and even sometimes arbitrary process, and yet it has the potential to be an important, …

  • HyFlex Teaching

    What is hybrid?Before COVID-19, Hybrid described courses that combine face-to-face classroom instruction with computer-based learning. Hybrid courses move a significant part of course learning online …

  • Ignatian Pedagogy

    Most professors want students to leave their classes with more than just a heap of information: ideally the student has also been transformed in some …

  • Inclusive Assessment

    Assessment is a crucial part of any course; you need to know whether your students are learning what you set out for them to learn. …

  • Inclusive Pedagogy

    Inclusive pedagogy is a student-centered approach to teaching that pays attention to the varied background, learning styles, and abilities of all the learners in front …

  • Inclusive Pedagogy Toolkit

    IntroductionDesigning the learning environment to be meaningful, relevant, and accessible for every student in your course/program is inclusive pedagogy. It’s also consistent with Georgetown values …

  • Inclusive Pedagogy Workshop Series

    CNDLS offers a range of Inclusive Pedagogy events, designed for all faculty and staff interested in engaging with complex issues of diversity and inclusion and …

  • Inclusive Teaching Resources

    CNDLS is here to support faculty interested in issues of diversity and inclusion in the classroom. Those interested in reading more on the subject have …

  • Learning Goals

    You undoubtedly have implicit ideas about what you want your students to take away from your course. You may also be expected to meet learning …

  • Lecturing Effectively

    The lecture is a commonplace in many academic disciplines; also commonplace, however, are concerns that lectures can be unengaging, unproductive, a haven for uncreative teaching, …

  • Mentoring Students

    Most students at colleges and universities have academic advisers, which means that they have some support as they work their way toward a meaningful degree. …

  • Mid-Semester Teaching Feedback

    With a rapidly changing educational environment, it’s more important than ever for faculty to check in with our students during the course to see how …

  • Offering Online Assessments

    Assessment, like all other aspects of teaching, needs to be adapted to work in a virtual course environment. If you traditionally rely on closed-book, in-class …

  • Online Course Design

    With more faculty moving course elements online and more technologies and services becoming available to support those environments, you may be considering how much of …

  • Online Exam Security and Proctoring

    Guidelines for Securing Exams and Classes OnlineAcademic integrity is of course just as important in a virtual learning environment as it is in an in-person …

  • Online Programs

    Let’s design together.We believe that innovations in online learning can help us discover new ways of learning in all spheres. At the same time, we …

  • Planning and Leading Class

    Good class sessions rarely just happen; they usually grow out of careful planning and execution.Planning the Class SessionDesigning a successful class session will, like course …

  • Reflection in the Classroom

    To paraphrase what philosopher Edmund Burke once said, learning without reflection is like eating without digestion. In either case you can feed as much as …

  • Responding to Student Writing

    To start with the obvious: It’s important to respond to student writing. Giving students feedback on their written work (beyond a grade) emphasizes that writing …

  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

    In many CNDLS, Doyle, Engelhard, and ITEL projects, faculty develop new strategies and tools for teaching. Such efforts generate two important questions:How does it work, …

  • Starting the Semester

    A successful semester not only ends well—it also begins well. Thought and preparation can allow you to set a productive tone and direction from the …

  • Student Engagement in Large Online Classes

    What does a large lecture class look like online?We’re all familiar with the large lecture hall with fixed tiered seating and a pitched floor descending …

  • Student Engagement Through Digital Tools

    Student engagement generally refers to students’ level of investment, passion, and interest in the subject and course material, as well as the degree of interaction …

  • Teaching Assistants

    The presence of teaching assistants in courses has become so commonplace that we might be tempted to give that aspect of the class little thought—we …

  • Teaching in Difficult Times

    Georgetown’s campus is not sealed off from the surrounding world. What that means is that our community feels—sometimes powerfully, sometimes painfully—the effects of critical local, …

  • Teaching Seminar Courses

    Seminars—small classes typically driven by discussion and other forms of active learning and in which students often take on teaching roles and responsibilities—offer tremendous opportunities …

  • Teaching Well-Being

    Central to Georgetown’s educational mission is the Jesuit ideal of “Educating the whole person.” This ideal calls for both students and faculty to bring their …

  • Technology and Teaching

    More and more, technology will be a part of your students' lives, even if you are not currently interested in using it in your classroom. …

  • Universal Design for Learning

    To teach effectively, your teaching must be accessible to your students, all of whom come to the classroom with varied backgrounds, expectations, and abilities. This …

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