Teaching and Learning Resources

Library Services for Faculty  

Course Design

Start with the end in mind: Understanding By Design

• Understanding by Design (Vanderbilt CFT)
• Hope College Syllabus Guidelines
• Syllabus: A Tool to Promote Student Equity, Belonging, and Growth (SEP Module)
• Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
• Writing Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
• Credit Hour Policy 
• Utlizing Mid-Semester Feedback (Vanderbilt CFT)
• Using Course Evaluations to Improve Your Course (Recorded Workshop)
• Connecting to Certifications and Micro-Credentials

Van Wylen Library Resources

• Reserve Course Materials
• Streaming Video Requests 
• Course Design (Ebook)
• 33 Simple Strategies for Faculty (Ebook)

Teaching Strategies 

Below is a collection of resources to help guide the instruction and assessment of student learning of your coureses. For a more extensive list of teaching strategies please check out Vanderbilt’s Center for Teaching.

• Active Learning (Harvard)
• Inclusive Teaching (Cornell CTI)
• Interactive Lecturing (Elon CATL)
• Teaching with Cases (Harvard Kennedy School)
• Transparency in Teaching and Learning (TILT HigherEd)
• Klooster Center for Excellence in Writing
• Dr. Mays Imad workshop on Trauna-Informed Teaching (Recording and Slides)

Assessment of Learning

• Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
• Academic Integrity
• Developing Grading Critera (Vanderbilt CFT)
• AAC&U Value Rubrics

Bloom's Taxonomy & Assessment Strategies

Teaching Tech at Hope

At Hope College instructors have a wide array of technology available to them to support their teaching. To learn more about teaching with technology and designing your course with technology in mind reach out to the digital instruction specialist. 

• Classroom Technology
• Moodle (Hope College LMS)
• Google Workspace (GSuite Learning Center)

Library Faculty Services

• Library and Information Literacy
• Faculty Services 
• Digital Media Lab