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Strengthen group work by helping students develop teamwork skills such as communication, accountability, and collaboration, fostering positive dynamics and shared responsibility for collective success.

Design effective blended courses by asking key questions that clarify learning goals, align online and in-person components, and ensure meaningful integration that supports student engagement and success.

Improve research writing by focusing on clarity, structure, and argumentation, while using evidence effectively and revising purposefully to communicate ideas with precision and academic integrity.

Support student learning and project planning by integrating timeline tools that clarify expectations, visualize progress, and encourage time management through structured milestones and deadlines.

Promote fair and consistent assessment by developing clear rubrics, calibrating expectations among assessors, and fostering open communication to ensure reliability and transparency in grading.

Foster continuous improvement in your teaching by using reflection tools that surface insights, track progress, and guide intentional changes aligned with your goals and student needs.

Ensure a smooth shift to online teaching by adapting content for digital delivery, fostering student engagement through interactive tools, and maintaining clarity and presence in virtual environments.

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Diversify student learning and evaluation by incorporating a range of assignment types that align with learning outcomes, support skill development, and offer multiple ways to demonstrate understanding.

Learning style preferences refer to the “characteristic strengths and preferences in the ways [people] take in and process information” (Felder, 1996). This teaching tip reviews important considerations when understanding and applying learning styles and the Soloman-Felder model of learning styles.