Teaching and Sustainability

DePaul's new sustainability website illustrates some of the important new initiatives taking place across the university. After learning more about sustainability at DePaul, these resources may provide some ideas for bringing the subject into the classroom:

An easy-to-use online Carbon Footprint Calculator will prompt students to consider their own impact on the environment.

Vanderbilt's Center for Teaching offers some concrete tips for teaching sustainability and points to further resources on the topic.

The Ecological Society of America provides helpful ecological fact-sheets that instructors could use to spark discussions or in-class writing exercises.

Spotlight on Teaching and Learning: April 7th Edition

This month's Teaching Carnival is now posted on ProfHacker and features dozens of carefully selected teaching articles, resources, and blog posts.

An article from Inside Higher Ed addresses the NCTE's "Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing," which points to the ways in which teachers must increasingly adapt traditional measures of "standard" student writing.

Faculty Focus offers an interesting perspective on how the language used in online discussion rubrics might not be sensitive to increasing international and cultural diversity at most schools.

Melissa from Faculty Instructional Technology Services (FITS) addresses how instructional technologies are evaluated and adopted at DePaul and why it's so important for faculty voices from across the university to be part of that process.