Learning Lens

By Elizabeth McAlpin, Director of Educational Technology Research, NYU IT At a recent SoTL TeachTalks session, I was struck by a recurring theme that sat quietly beneath the iterative design, technical work, research frameworks, and…

By Anandi Nagarajan, Assistant Vice Provost for Pedagogy and Director, NYU Center for Teaching and Learning When students speak, are we really listening?  Hearing from students isn’t just about collecting opinions—it’s about cultivating awareness. Student feedback,…

By Zareth Ramos Cervantes, undergraduate Social Research and Public Policy major, NYU Abu Dhabi In spring of 2025, I joined the Student-Faculty Partners Program (SFPP), offered through NYU’s Center for Teaching and Learning, while taking…

By Anandi Nagarajan, Assistant Vice Provost for Pedagogy and Director, NYU Center for Teaching and Learning Thinking is hard. But thinking about your thinking is harder.  Knowing which one you’re doing can change how you…

By Janet Njelesani, Associate Professor in Occupational Therapy, and Grace A. Chen, Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow in Teaching and Learning, at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development In 2019, the Steinhardt…

By Lillian Moran, Senior Educational Technologist, NYU College of Dentistry With the semester in full swing, let’s take a moment to reflect on a success. Two cohorts of NYU Dentistry faculty recently undertook research through…

By Anton Borst, Assistant Director of Faculty Programs and Initiatives, NYU Center for Teaching and Learning Last week, Emy Cardoza from the Office of Global Inclusion and Carly Siuta from the Changemaker Center led a…

By Fidelindo Lim, DNP, CCRN, FAANClinical Associate Professor and Program Director, Nursing EducationRory Meyers College of Nursing Concerns about the decline in student reading habits, a topic often raised by educators, have persisted across all…

By De Angela L. Duff, Associate Vice Provost, NYU, and Industry Professor, NYU Tandon NYU’s Office of the Provost hosted a virtual symposium, Teaching and Learning with Generative AI: Student Perspectives, on October 10, 2024.…

By Zoe Ragouzeos, Vice President of Student Mental Health and Wellbeing, and Jayson Valcik, Assistant Director of Student Wellbeing Initiatives Research consistently shows that supporting student wellbeing leads to improved learning outcomes, as a positive…

Through our teaching consultation service, the teaching support team at the Office of the Provost has had the privilege to speak with many NYU faculty—in the sciences, the humanities, as well as professional studies—about their…

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) serves as a vital avenue for faculty to explore and improve their teaching practices through systematic inquiry and evidence-based methods. It emphasizes evidence-based inquiry, reflection, and dissemination of…

Every instructor will encounter students whose learning is being impacted by mental health concerns. Students may be very open about it: They want to be recognized as whole people and they see faculty as potential…

Projects in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) are never solo endeavors, and the most successful partnerships are those where both parties are flexible and open to trying different approaches to their teaching and…

Author: Anton Borst, Senior Learning Designer, Office of the Provost When ChatGPT does the work of writing for students, it derails the process of learning how to write. But what happens when AI is brought…

Authors: Gita DasBender, Nate Mickelson, and Leah Souffrant Contract grading has a long history in higher education. With roots in humanistic psychology (Combs, 1976), the approach has seen a renaissance in recent years in the…

In April, I attended the Center for Faculty Advancement’s Inclusive Teaching workshop. During this session, participants discussed the question of cultivating an inclusive learning environment while affirming student accountability. One strategy I have found effective…

On March 10, 2022, TeachTalks switched gears. Instead of faculty leading the discussion, six students (four undergraduates and two graduate students) took the virtual stage for What Have We Learned About Engagement During the Pandemic?…

In the summer of 2018, the NYU School of Global Public Health redesigned the undergraduate environmental health course that is required of all public health co-majors at NYU. Our idea was to develop a course…

As this past year has demonstrated, our understanding of teaching and learning is constantly evolving. In an effort to continue providing quality learning experiences for all students in varied settings, faculty from NYU Tandon School…

This year’s sudden switch to a remote teaching environment at NYU led me to re-examine the grading methods used in the Perioperative Nursing course I was assigned to teach for the Summer 2020 semester. Although…

Boosting your audio and video quality will enhance the remote teaching and learning experience for you and your students. Here are some simple tips to up your A/V game. At the end of this article,…

In Public Health Nursing, a course offered at Rory Meyers College of Nursing, 222 undergraduate students participated in a new design-thinking project that focused on tackling large public health issues. These included infectious disease, policy…

In one of the graduate courses I teach at Steinhardt, we talk a great deal about the power of storytelling and media to support learning. Throughout the course, we explore whether and how media undergirds…