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Updates from the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards
UO has embarked on a multi-year to update its Student Conduct Code and process that are meant to make them more specific and timelier, support the academic mission, and better ensure consistency and fairness for students. This page summarizes those changes, explains what they mean for instructors…
Trauma-Informed Pedagogy (TIP)
This page offers definitions and context for what trauma-informed and trauma-responsive pedagogies are, as well as a summary of why considering the effects of trauma and pedagogies responsive to them might be useful. It also offers guidance on how to enact the principles of trauma-informed/trauma-…
Equity in Student Achievement: Resources & Research
This page offers definitions of equity, resources that summarize promising practices and offer necessary context for both why inequities exist and how institutions are are addressing them, and peer-reviewed research focused on specific interventions. All listed resources and research expand to…
Cross-Campus Collaborations to Build a Culture of Academic Integrity
This page describes two student-facing Canvas modules created to support a more unified understanding of what academic integrity is in action. These modules were developed in response to faculty concerns around academic integrity and a need for additional support and in response to student concerns…
Universal Design for Learning
This page provides an overview of what Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is as a pedagogical framework, information on why instructors may want to use UDL in their teaching and course design, guidance around how to apply the guidelines of UDL, and resources to continue that work. It is meant to…
Hybrid Teaching at the UO
Since 2020, we have all been participating in a mass experiment in faculty development, likely the most extensive in scale and speed in the history of higher education. Academic continuity during the pandemic required our campus community to reconsider what it means to support the whole student,…
Pedagogies for Accessibility, Inclusion, & Universal Design
The goal of this resource is to support instructors in implementing the kinds of accessible, inclusive, and universal design practices that remove barriers for students with disabilities and neurodivergent students, and that support learning for all students. These pages offer a brief "what" and…
Graduate Writing Mentorship Program
Though writing is fundamental to the careers of most scholars, too few programs teach graduate students how to write in their respective disciplines and even fewer teach faculty how to teach writing to their graduate students. Meanwhile, the university offers few writing services specifically for…
Active Learning & Metacognition
Research indicates that students who engage actively with course content – by asking and answering questions, discussing issues and presenting ideas, applying and synthesizing their knowledge, etc. – perform better and retain their knowledge longer than those who passively listen to lectures or…
Creating a Community of Inquiry in Online Classes
An educational community of inquiry is a group of people who work together to develop personal meaning and reinforce mutual understanding via critical dialogue and reflection. Creating a community of inquiry in your online courses can lead to highly engaging and meaningful learning experiences. In…