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Spice Up Your Teaching with EduBites!

December 04, 2024  / Digital Learning  / Tags: Online Teaching, AI

Spice Up Your Teaching With EduBites!

Teaching is a craft that thrives on curiosity, reflection, and innovation. Over the past few months, EduBites brought educators together for a series of short, focused sessions designed to spark fresh ideas, provide actionable strategies, and support professional growth—all in just 20 minutes.

Each session focused on a unique teaching theme, exploring practical approaches to enhance courses and engage students. From fostering autonomy and emotional connection to equitable grading and promoting metacognition, EduBites addressed the challenges and opportunities of modern education with creativity and practicality.

This blog post highlights the big ideas from each session and offers a quick snapshot of the key takeaways. For those who attended, it’s a chance to revisit and reflect. For those who couldn’t join, it’s an opportunity to catch up on strategies you can implement in your own teaching.  We also provided follow-up resources (The Boost!) after each session to synthesize the key takeaways, share AI tools to streamline your efforts, and connect you to additional learning opportunities.

Click on the spice jars below to learn more about each topic. 

Spice Up Your Teaching!	In September’s EduBites session, Spice Up Your Teaching! We explored innovative multimodal strategies to make online discussions more engaging and meaningful for students. These strategies encourage creativity, foster deeper engagement, and help students connect course material to their own experiences.
Savory Teaching Strategies!	In October’s EduBites session, we delved into Savory Teaching Strategies—a recipe for fostering autonomy and emotional engagement in online learning. By empowering students to take control of their learning and connecting with them on a deeper emotional level, these strategies help create a more impactful and memorable educational experience.
Balanced Bites!	In November’s EduBites session, Balanced Bites! We examined practical strategies to enhance student metacognition and equity in grading—two essential ingredients for creating more inclusive and effective learning environments.