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Need Help Using Brightspace as you Plan for Fall Classes?

As you prepare your fall courses, keep in mind all of the Brightspace resources we offer here at the Center for Teaching. July is a great time to get started! Great news! Brightspace now has an Annotations Tool for grading! Learn more about how to use the tool with this guide: Using the Annotations Tool. Please visit our on-demand…

Posted by on August 16, 2019 in brightspace, CFT Services, Events, workshop


Take advantage of our last Top Hat virtual office hour before classes start!

Interested in learning more about the new and advanced features of Top Hat? Are you using Top Hat but have some questions regarding your specific use case? Get help and answers about Top Hat during our virtual open office hour session. During these open sessions, you set the agenda! Quintin Peirce from Top Hat will…

Posted by on August 15, 2019 in Events, News, Top Hat, workshop


Get help and answers to you Top Hat questions during our virtual office hours

Interested in learning more about the new and advanced features of Top Hat? Are you using Top Hat but have some questions regarding your specific use case? Get help and answers about Top Hat during one of our virtual open office hour sessions. During these open sessions, you set the agenda! Quintin Peirce from Top…

Posted by on August 14, 2019 in Events, News, Top Hat, workshop


Teaching at Vanderbilt: New Faculty Orientation August 15th

  At the beginning of every academic year, the Center for Teaching hosts “Teaching at Vanderbilt,” an orientation for junior and senior faculty new to Vanderbilt. The orientation features an introduction to strategies for launching a successful teaching career at Vanderbilt, with concurrent sessions on a variety of practical topics. Teaching at Vanderbilt is an…

Posted by on August 13, 2019 in Events, Orientation, TaV


Just-in-Time Teaching Conference August 19th and 20th

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 19th and…

Posted by on August 9, 2019 in Events, JiTT, jitt teaching conference, News, Teaching Workshops


A Conversation on the Future of Digital Literacies

It’s a safe bet that technology will change. And as technology changes, the ways we create and consume information and media will change, as will the ways we connect and communicate with each other. What will digital literacies look like in five or ten years? And what does the answer to that question mean for…

Posted by on April 9, 2019 in digital literacies, Events, Learning Communities


A Conversation on Disability and Digital Literacies

As we teach various digital literacies, including critical consumption and multimodal production, how can we be inclusive of students with different abilities? . Join us for a conversation about digital literacies, disability, and universal design for learning at the Center for Teaching on Friday, March 15th, from 12:10 to 1:30pm. . Our panelists will be:…

Posted by on March 11, 2019 in Accessiblity, digital literacies, digital literacy, disabilities, Events


Teaching 101: Part 2 Graduate Student/Postdoc Workshop

Do you want students to view your class within the framework of their lives or communities? Have you considered strategies for connecting class materials to social realities? This interdisciplinary workshop will introduce basic strategies for incorporating active and collaborative learning, community engagement, and social outreach activities into a variety of classroom environments. We will also…

Posted by on March 8, 2019 in Events, Facilitating group work, graduate students, graduate teaching fellows, News, post docs


Open Education Week Features Talk by Christina Hendricks

As part of Open Education Week, the Vanderbilt Libraries are hosting an event on Friday, February 22nd, exploring students as producers of open digital content. Christina Hendricks, professor of philosophy and academic director of the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, will give a talk titled “Open Educational Practices:…

Posted by on February 18, 2019 in Events, News, Open Education, Students as Producers


Developing a Written Diversity Statement Graduate Student/Postdoc Workshop

In this workshop, we will discuss evidence-based practices for writing a diversity statement for the academic job market. Increasingly, universities and colleges are requesting that faculty job applicants provide a statement addressing how they plan to contribute to inclusive excellence in their professional lives. Sometimes, a job ad will request that applicants address diversity in…

Posted by on February 11, 2019 in diversity, Events, graduate students, Teaching Workshops