The Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) provides a variety of video resources, from quick teaching reflections to comprehensive, self-paced courses. Our content is designed to offer both immediate inspiration and practical, evidence-based strategies for your teaching practice.
Teaching Minute
Watch the Teaching Minute series on YouTube. No registration required.
Teaching Minute features University of Minnesota instructors and staff sharing authentic stories and impactful strategies in 60 seconds or less. These episodes highlight real-world practices such as flipping the classroom to fostering student confidence demonstrating why intentional teaching is essential.
Have a teaching story or practice you’d like to share? Let us know at [email protected].
Self-Paced Video Series on Training Hub
Enrollment through Training Hub allows you to track your professional development progress and access supplemental resources.
Small Teaching Changes in Times of Burnout
In this six-part, self-paced series, we start by acknowledging the ongoing, challenging realities you and your students face. We provide concrete, achievable strategies for small, high-impact teaching strategies to implement, given these realities. We suggest that you choose to implement one or two, focusing on the areas of your teaching that are the highest priority for you and your students. Each video is under 7 minutes.
Active Lecturing
In this series of four videos, we provide an overview of interactive lecturing followed by practical strategies for asking questions, using audience response systems, peer instruction, and note-taking handouts. Each video is under 7 minutes.
Getting Feedback You Can Use
In this three-part video series, we’ll explore a variety of ways to get useful, timely feedback that can help improve instruction and students’ learning. Topics include why to ask for feedback, various techniques for gathering feedback, and how to respond to and take action on feedback. Each video is under 8 minutes.
Enrollment & Course Completion
While Teaching Minute is open to everyone on YouTube, the ones on Training Hub provide a tracked learning experience:
Registration: Click an enrollment link above to sign up. You will receive an automated email with the recording links and all accompanying resources.
Marking Completion: These series allow you to mark completion on your "My Training" page once you have finished the materials.
Guest Accounts: If you do not have a UMN email, you may request a guest account for access.
Accommodations: Please contact [email protected] to discuss access needs.
See Also: Looking for stand-alone sessions on specific topics? Visit our Recorded Webinars page for an archive of our full-length, topical sessions.