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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

Blended & Online Learning Design (BOLD) Fellows

  Vanderbilt’s Center for Teaching and the CIRTL Network(Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning) share a mission to enhance excellence in undergraduate teaching by offering the BOLD Fellows program. The CFT honors the six faculty/student teams that created online instructional modules during the program’s inaugural year! We invite you to hear presentations of their…

Posted by on May 15, 2015 in bold fellows, CFT Programs, Events, News, Online Education, STEM

Symposium on Teaching, Difference, and Power April 21st, 2pm

Among the greatest challenges facing higher education in the US is the difficulty of creating diverse and democratic campus cultures and confronting, rather than replicating, an array of social inequalities. The Center for Teaching selected “Teaching, Difference, and Power” as its annual theme to understand the challenges educators face in negotiating difference and power in…

Posted by on April 13, 2015 in diversity, event, Events, News, Teaching Difference and Power

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

Upcoming Conversations on Digital Pedagogy

Interest in seeing what effective educational technology use looks like in practice is fueling a new series of conversations on teaching sponsored by the CFT and the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning (VIDL). Conversations on Digital Pedagogy, will feature Vanderbilt instructors describing and reflecting on the ways they use educational technologies to enhance student learning….

Posted by on March 18, 2015 in CFT Event, Digital Pedagogy, Educational Technology, Events, Flipped Classroom, Twitter

Symposium on Teaching, Difference, and Power Scheduled for April 21st

Among the greatest challenges facing higher education in the US is the difficulty of creating diverse and democratic campus cultures and confronting, rather than replicating, an array of social inequalities. The Center for Teaching selected “Teaching, Difference, and Power” as…

Posted by on March 12, 2015 in CFT Event, diversity, Events, News, Teaching Difference and Power

CIRTL Network Development Opportunities

The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) is an NSF Center for Learning and Teaching in higher education. CIRTL has opened registration for upcoming course opportunities. These are free, online events for grad students and post-docs…

Posted by on March 6, 2015 in CIRTL, Events, gradutate students, Online Education, Related Events, STEM, STEM teaching

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

CIRTL Network Development Opportunities

  The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) is an NSF Center for Learning and Teaching in higher education. CIRTL has opened registration for upcoming course opportunities. These are free, online events for grad students and…

Posted by on February 11, 2015 in CIRTL, Events, graduate students, News, Online Education, STEM

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