Flower Darby
Flower Darby is an associate director of the Teaching for Learning Center at the University of Missouri at Columbia and co-author of The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching, published in March 2023. Find her here on LinkedIn.
Stories by this Author
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AdviceWe Still Think Online Teaching Isn’t Real Teaching
How to find meaning, purpose, and even a little joy in your asynchronous courses. -
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Why You Should Rethink Your Resistance to ChatGPT
How to teach with AI tools in ways that meet faculty concerns about ethics and equity. -
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4 Steps to Help You Plan for ChatGPT in Your Classroom
Why you should understand how to teach with AI tools — even if you have no plans to actually use them. -
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7 Dos & Don’ts for Post-Pandemic Teaching With Technology
Here’s what students hope you’ll keep doing in the fall — and what they hope you’ll drop. -
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8 Strategies to Prevent Teaching Burnout
What can you do this semester to protect your well-being and support your students? -
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7 Ways to Assess Students Online and Minimize Cheating
What can you do to promote academic integrity in your virtual classroom without joining the “arms race” in cheating-prevention tools? -
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The Secret Weapon of Good Online Teaching: Discussion Forums
Six ways to lead meaningful class discussions in an asynchronous online forum. -
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6 Quick Ways to Be More Inclusive in a Virtual Classroom
How do you create online or hybrid courses with an ethos of inclusion and equity embedded throughout? -
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5 Ways to Connect With Online Students
In remote teaching, it’s easy to forget that students are real people. Here’s why connecting early and often with them is vital, and how to do it. -
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Sorry Not Sorry: Online Teaching Is Here to Stay
Four reasons you should join the online-teaching movement and spend some time this summer polishing your digital skills.
