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September 5-6: The Open Classroom, Two Days of Teaching Visits

The Center for Teaching will host “The Open Classroom: Two Days of Teaching Visits” Sept. 5 and 6. This program will showcase examples of best teaching practices featuring talented faculty from across the university. During the event, faculty hosts will open their classrooms to registered faculty and graduate student visitors. These visitors will attend their choice…

Posted by on August 22, 2017 in Events, Teaching Visits

Just-in-Time Teaching Conference – August 22nd and 23rd

It’s never too late to make a good decision, right?  Although planning fall courses starts long before the start of classes, we recognize that many instructors are still making course design and implementation decisions right up to the wire.  That’s why we’re offering a variety of teaching workshops for Vanderbilt instructors on August 22nd and…

Posted by on July 18, 2016 in Events, Teaching Workshops

Just-in-Time Teaching Conference – August 22nd and 23rd

It’s never too late to make a good decision, right?  Although planning fall courses starts long before the start of classes, we recognize that many instructors are still making course design and implementation decisions right up to the wire.  That’s why we’re offering a variety of teaching workshops for Vanderbilt instructors on August 22nd and…

Posted by on July 18, 2016 in Events, Teaching Workshops

Digital Timelines, a Conversation on Digital Pedagogy, April 4th

Digital Timelines Monday, April 4, 2016 12:10 to 1:00 p.m. (lunch provided) Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Register Here Remember those timelines you saw in your history textbook back in middle school? Today’s digital timelines do far more than present a static, linear progression of dates and names. Online, interactive timelines support visually…

Posted by on March 24, 2016 in Digital Humanities, Digital Pedagogy, Educational Technology, Events, Students as Producers, Timelines

Training PhDs in the Biomedical Sciences: A Health Sciences Education Grand Rounds, July 8th

Science faculty involved in graduate education at Vanderbilt might be interested in next month’s Health Sciences Education Grand Rounds talk by Dr. Michael Mulvany, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Denmark. Dr. Mulvany will share some of the changes that are underway in the European Union as they seek to modernize the way they…

Posted by on June 24, 2015 in Events, Graduate Education, Health Sciences

Vanderbilt CIRTL Programs for Future STEM Faculty

The Vanderbilt University Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (VU-CIRTL) is offering three programs for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduate students and postdocs interested in future faculty careers. Details below, with information about CFT connections in parentheses. Evidence-Based Teaching Workshop – This two-day workshop (June 4th and 5th) is designed…

Posted by on May 28, 2015 in CIRTL, Events, STEM

The Flipped Classroom, a Conversation on Digital Pedagogy, April 7th

by Derek Bruff, CFT Director On March 19th, the CFT and the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning (VIDL) hosted the first in a series of Conversations on Digital Pedagogy. These conversations are meant to provide members of the Vanderbilt teaching community opportunities to learn from each other as they explore creative and effective uses of…

Posted by on April 1, 2015 in Educational Technology, Events, Flipped Classroom, Social Pedagogies

Author Jeffrey Selingo on the Future of Higher Education – April 7th, 4pm

by Derek Bruff, CFT Director Author and columnist Jeffrey Selingo will present the inaugural Schmidt Family Educational Technology Lecture on Tuesday, April 7th. Selingo’s lecture, “College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education,” will be in Jacobs Believed In Me Auditorium, 134 Featheringill Hall, at 4 p.m., with reception to follow. Selingo will talk about the…

Posted by on March 30, 2015 in Educational Technology, Events

Conversations on Digital Pedagogy

by Derek Bruff, CFT Director Two weeks ago I gave a keynote titled “More Than Just Shiny Objects” at the Research on Teaching and Learning Summit at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. I argued that our use of educational technology…

Posted by on March 2, 2015 in Conversations on Teaching, Digital Pedagogy, Educational Technology, Events

College Teaching: A Panel for Future STEM Faculty – October 14th

As part of their PhD Career Connections series, Vanderbilt’s Biomedical Research Education & Training (BRET) Office is hosting a panel on college teaching for PhD students in the sciences. The panel is scheduled for 9-10am on Tuesday, October 14th, and…

Posted by on September 22, 2014 in Campus Partners, Events, Future Faculty, STEM

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