CMU LibGuides: Teaching and Learning Toolkit: Teaching & Learning Resources

Organizations Supporting Instruction

Eberly Center - CMU
(Highly Recommended) The Eberly Center provides instructional support with online resources and free appointments with their Teaching & Learning Consultants. They can help you plan learning goals, develop syllabi, assess your classroom engagement strategies through teaching observations, and think about educational technology to utilize in the context of your instruction.

Resources Supporting Real-Time Instruction

Miro
Miro is an AI-powered visual workspace that brings users together in order to collaborate and make fast decisions.
Its intelligent canvas with interactive tools makes it easy for anyone to get work done, from digital post-it notes, journey mapping, diagramming, and more.
Log in with your Andrew Email for institutional access.
Poll Everywhere
A polling tool that allows instructors to pose questions to students, view their responses in real time, and gather questions / comments from students during a live lecture. This is also a useful tool for assessing student knowledge prior to an instruction session.
Mentimeter
Another polling tool option that allows customizable polls of different types to be delivered via the Menti website for live audience interaction.
Slido
Similar to the tools above, provides different polling options for engaging with a live audience.

Repository of Teaching Materials

In the spirit of wanting to support open educational practices, we maintain an Open Science Framework repository for publicly sharing instructional materials. Instructional materials could be any content related to workshops, guest lectures, stand-alone instructional activities, or tabling events. All content will have a CC-BY-4.0 license which allows sharing and reuse by others. All items will also have a unique persistent URL which will make sharing them very easy for you.

There are many benefits to using the project to share materials publicly including:

Being able to easily share materials with attendees of your instructional session or internal or external collaborators
Pointing to instruction-related projects in your casebook documents with unique persistent URLs. DOIs can also be minted on OSF and instructors should contact us if that is of interest for specific materials. This option might be particularly useful for crowd-sourced projects.
Having a central place to find instructional materials created by others that you can reuse in your own departments

Please note that putting your materials in the OSF repository is optional.

You have two options for adding content to the repository. You can ask for editing privileges and upload materials yourself or you can send them to Melanie Gainey (mgainey@andrew.cmu.edu) and she will put them in the repository for you. If you upload materials yourself, please use the existing organizational structure or contact Melanie if you are unsure of where to put your materials.

Guidance on Images

Since all materials on our repository have a CC-BY4.0 license, you will need to remove images that are not licensed similarly or replace them with freely licensed CC-BY4.0 images. Here are some great resources for finding images with the appropriate licenses. You'll find additional sources and guidance for using images in public-facing materials in this Using Images libguide.

Flickr search: Contain a license option in their advanced filters

Google Image Search: Contains license option in the Tools section

CC Search: Search engine provided by Creative Commons and links to all publicly licensed content.

Pixabay: Image database that allows you to filter for creative commons images to use and download.

If these options will not work well for you, please get in touch with OLiBTel (lib-olibtel@lists.andrew.cmu.edu) for guidance on alternative solutions.

Technologies

Canvas

Canvas is the primary course management system used by instructors. With the instructor's permission, instruction librarian's are able to create activities or blogs to measure student competencies in information literacy, or even their knowledge of library technologies, resources, and services.
Engagement Technologies

The Eberly Center provides a overview of blogs, discussion boards, and wikis as they are used in the classroom. These platforms can be highly beneficial for instruction librarians wanting to engage with students and play an increasingly important role in the college learning process.