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This podcast, hosted by Bonni Stachowiak, airs weekly. The podcast focuses on topics such as excellence in teaching, instructional design, open education, diversity and inclusion, productivity, creativity in teaching, educational technology, and blended learning.

Podcast Series. A podcast for people who know religion is weird, but love it anyway. Your hosts, Leah Payne and Brian Doak, are both professors, authors, and pop culture aficionados, whose interests range from archaeology and history and linguistics to LARPing and The Walking Dead. Episodes tackle some piece of media highlighting the wonderful weirdness of religious experience—a documentary, a television show, a Twitter scandal—and use that as a thread on which to hang pearly reflections on a wide variety of topics. Heaven. Hell. The perils of fame within the evangelical world. Church attendance. Atheism. Gamer communities. Starting a cult. Join us.

A grassroots and network-based effort to promote the design of research-based learning environments. Supports the scaled implementation and research related to Universal Design for Learning. Promotes the identification and development of models, tools, research, and practices designed to foster effective UDL implementation in educational environments.

An occasional course offered online (with registration fee) by the University of Wisconsin (Madison) Continuing Studies -- who helped develop the Wabash Center’s occasionally offered Workshop For Theological Faculty Teaching Online. “In this course, you’ll gain a gain a basic overview of the knowledge and skills you need to teach in the online environment, contextualized for those teaching in a theological setting. Key topics include online course models, characteristics of online learners, understanding your role as an online instructor, how to plan content and learning activities, and strategies to manage courses.”

The Atla Websites on Religion is a growing, selective, annotated collection of web resources for the study and teaching of religion. It’s first incarnation was on the Wabash Center website, created and maintained by Charles Bellinger.  “The Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion” it was often referred to as “The Internet Guide.” Atla took over development of the site in 2018.

A document prepared by a committee working through the American Academy of Religion, that proposes a basic level of cultural competency that every graduate of a two- or four-year college should develop. It argues that some critical understanding about the ways in which religion shapes and is shaped by human behavior should be part of the general education of every person who receives an undergraduate degree.

Totally free sound files for presentation slides and videos.