CFI Resources
We are a community of faculty and educational developers collaborating to create opportunities for professional growth and innovation.
- Upcoming CFI events
- COVID-19: Going Online
- CFI Consultations
- Teaching Toolbox recent editions about online teaching and learning.
- Pandemic Teaching Memo to Myself-August 27, 2020
- Hybrid, Hy-Flex, Hy-Stress: Teaching Under a Rock-August 13, 2020
- A Pandemic Pedagogy: Trauma-Informed Teaching Meets Healing-Centered Engagement-July 6, 2020
- Creating Effective Online Discussion Boards-April 2, 2020
- Helping Students Make the Transition to Online Learning-Teaching Toolbox-March 19, 2020
Recorded or Asynchronous CFI Sessions
Did you miss Dr. KerryAnn O’Meara’s talk on equity-minded reform of faculty workload at May Institute 2021? Sign up here to watch the video of the lecture. (Available only for JMU faculty and staff.)
Equity-Minded Reform of Faculty Workloads (Online Scholarly Talk). The unequal distribution of faculty workload is one of the most important, yet least talked about, inequities that shape the experiences of instructional faculty. As a result of the pandemic, workloads are growing, and growing more inequitable—particularly for BIPOC and women faculty. This talk unveils how faculty labor is taken up, assigned, and rewarded—and what needs to be done to re-design workload with equity in mind. Guest speaker: KerryAnn O’Meara, University of Maryland.
Recommended Online Resources
The Center for Faculty Innovation team has curated a list of helpful articles from trusted sources below.
Teaching Resources
- For AUHs: Supporting Faculty Teaching during COVID-19
- 5 Low-Tech, Time-Saving Ways to Teach Online During Covid-19, Chronicle of Higher Education
- Corona Virus Article Collection, Chronicle on Higher Education
- COVID-19 Archives, The Teaching Professor (JMU Libraries Subscription)
- Expanding Leadership Education: Teaching Service-Learning Online, ILA Member Connector, 2016 Issue 6.
- Going Online in a Hurry, Chronicle of Higher Education, Michelle Miller
- Rule of 2’s: Keeping it Simple as You Go Remote for COVID19
- Being Human in a Time of Crisis, Donna Lanclos
- On Care & Continuity in the Times of Coronavirus, Maha Bali
- Times Which Require Greater Care: Ethos in Online Learning, Sean Michael Morris
- ADA Compliance for Online Course Design, Sheryl Burgstahler
- The Universal Design Guidelines
- Aligning Assignments With Learning Goals, DePaul University
- Best Practices for Online Lectures, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Work-life Integration and Career Planning Resources
- How to Make a Video Call that Reduces Stress, Maha Bali
- Your Surge Capacity is Depleted-Its Why Your Feel Awful, Tara Haelle
- We need to talk: gender, bias and best practices for supporting academic parents, Kerry F. Crawford (JMU) and Leah Windsor
- 6 steps to running the perfect 30-minute meeting, Jimmy Sjölund
- The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track, Amy Gallo
- 9 ways to fix awful virtual meetings, Stephanie Overby
- Anti-Opression Facilitation for Democratic Process: Making Meetings Awesome for Everyone, AORTA (Anti-Opression Resource & Training Alliance)
- Contemplative Practices for Self-Care (recorded Zoom session)
- For Parents as Teachers and K-12 Educators
- The Calm Place, The New York Times
- 10 Well-Being Tips During the Days of COVID-19, Center for Healthy Minds at University of Wisconson-Madison
Scholarship Resources
- Staying Connected with Your Scholarship while Social Distancing, CFI Scholarship Area Team
- Faculty Welcome--Supporting your Research, Scholarship, and Creative Endeavors
- JMU Research and Scholarship Support Resources—Offices/Units
- Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Center for Engaged Learning
- Recorded sessions
- Prioritizing Scholarship among Competing Demands, Dayna Henry
- Qualitative Data Analysis Guide from JMU Libraries
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) at JMU
JMU Libraries Resources
- Support for Online Teaching and Learning, Research, and Creative Exploration
- Guide to Hybrid & Online Teaching at JMU
- Institute for Hybrid and Online Teaching, a self-paced online learning community for JMU faculty
- Workshops hosted by JMU Libraries
- Consultations with JMU Libraries’ faculty and staff