Faculty Commons and eLearning will partner to offer an asynchronous version of the on ground workshop series in November 2023. Please pre-register, commitment free, to inform our staffing, budgeting, and logistics. Asynchronous Course, November 1-30 PD Hours and Stipend Amounts TBD – Please pre-register by October 2ndContact Sajonna Sletten, Faculty Commons Chair, with questions and ...more about Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity: Creating a Course Policy (New!) Asynchronous Option
Not up for a full-length Climate Justice Faculty Learning Community (FLC) and only want to explore climate justice a little bit? Or do you want to complete the entire FLC experience by creating and teaching a climate justice lesson in one of your courses sometime this academic year? Have a good handle on climate justice, ...more about Incorporate Climate Justice Into Your Teaching
Do you have a teaching philosophy? Do your students know what it is? Could you articulate it in writing? What about in an in-person interview? A statement of teaching philosophy is often a requirement for tenure-track teaching jobs, and increasingly for adjunct teaching jobs as well. Being able to articulate your teaching philosophy can also ...more about Writing Your Teaching Philosophy Statement
Our union, the BCAHE, is one of our greatest sources of strength for improving not only our pay, but also our working conditions and students' learning conditions at BC. Because the BCAHE represents our collective power, we can accomplish much more as a union than as isolated individuals. With our next contract bargain coming up ...more about How to Jump-Start Your Union (New!)
Do you use videos to convey key content in your courses? Do you wonder if students are watching those videos and engaging with them? Join Li to learn about the changes in her students’ engagement with the videos in her online courses after she used the feature in Panopto to embed quizzes. Li will then ...more about Embed Quizzes in Your Videos and Students Will Watch!
Are you new to teaching? Or do you want to revisit some of the foundations of college instruction related to teaching and learning? The Nuts and Bolts workshop engages faculty in learning and discussions about the fundamentals of being a college instructor, while making practical applications to your courses. Throughout these sessions we introduce evidence-based ...more about Nuts and Bolts of Equitable College Instruction (Updated!)
The Curriculum for the Bioregion (C4B) Online Curriculum Collection is a large database of engaging teaching activities used by higher education faculty. The Collection receives over 5 million unique visits per year from around the world. Publishing to this data base makes your climate justice lesson widely available, while at the same time helping you ...more about Publishing Your Climate Justice Lesson
Digital Humanities (DH) is a diverse field that brings together the humanities and digital practices, technologies, and resources. DH has pushed the intellectual possibilities of academic disciplines and offered new ways of reimagining and enriching teaching and learning across academic institutions. By utilizing DH methods and practices in the classroom, instructors support students in broadening ...more about W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
The vision of this course is to provide a foundation for all BC faculty to create a more culturally responsive (CR) campus, both in and outside the classroom. The course focuses on four core equity practices all faculty can use to create a more inclusive environment, increasing students' sense of belonging and connection to our ...more about Introduction to Culturally Responsive Instruction – New Faculty only
As Bellevue College negotiates difficult budget times, finding funding for new initiatives can be tough. However, BC was awarded $5 million last year in grant funding for programs and services across the college like the Workforce Education office, the Early Learning Center, and Cybersecurity. But where did that funding come from, and how can programs ...more about Grants 101
