Coulter Faculty Commons
Your Partner in Teaching & LearningThe Coulter Faculty Commons (CFC) advances excellence in teaching, learning, and scholarship by partnering with the Western Carolina University community through collaboration, creation, and celebration.
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Teaching & Learning at WCU
Communicating and Engaging With Your Students
We encourage maximizing asynchronous communication for almost everything. There are many great ways to use Zoom or other sychronous tools for limited real-time communication. Here are some standard best practices (tried and true from more than 20 years of online...
Faculty Planning Tools – Making the Shift to Online
The Coulter Faculty Commons has developed a planning organizer for faculty use for the remaining spring 2020 term. The simple Word document contains weekly dates and boxes for each week remaining in the term. Faculty can use the...
The PLEA for using just-in-time over in-real-time teaching modes!
It is easy to just assume that you will be able to have live class sessions online using Zoom at the same time and day they have been scheduled, but that will not produce a good learning experience for the students, nor will it be pleasant for you as the instructor. ...