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CHPP Fellows Course Design Seminar

This Fall the CFT has had the pleasure to get to know and to support Vanderbilt’s Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows by hosting a Course Design Seminar for them. Established by the College of Arts & Science and funded by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities American Rescue Program, the Vanderbilt Collaborative…

Posted by on November 8, 2022 in Events, Grants, News

Cumberland Project in August 2022

By Joe Bandy In this time of environmental uncertainty and crisis higher education plays a vital role in helping the public meet the numerous challenges to sustainability, especially understanding and responding to climate change. Vanderbilt has taken up this challenge in a variety of forms, the latest of which is formation of the Climate and…

Posted by on June 8, 2022 in climate and environmental studies, Collaborative Learning, Course Design, Events, interdisciplinary, News, Resource, workshop

Course Design Institute on Inclusive Teaching

By Joe Bandy This May, the CFT hosted its second annual Course Design Institute focused on Inclusive Teaching. Instructors and staff from across campus participated in the event, delving into the scholarship on inclusive teaching and applying it via course design work.  Over four days, they met with each other in large and small groups, and with…

Posted by on June 7, 2022 in CDI, Commentary, course design institute, Events, Inclusive Teaching, News, online course design institute

Course Design Institute on Inclusive Teaching

by Joe Bandy and Stacey Johnson We invite you to join in our Course Design Institute on the theme of Inclusive Teaching.  This virtual event will take place via Brightspace and Zoom, May 16 – 19 (9am-4pm Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and 9-12:30pm Thursday). During the four-day institute, participants will (re)design courses with careful attention…

Posted by on April 25, 2022 in CFT Event, course design institute, Events, Inclusive Teaching, News

Student Success in Introductory STEM Courses

Chris Rasmussen, professor of mathematics education at San Diego State University, is giving a talk titled “Insights from Two National Studies of Precalculus through Calculus 2” on April 15th from 12:10 to 1:00pm. While the talk is part of the Department of Mathematics colloquium, it is likely to be of interest to faculty outside of…

Posted by on April 1, 2022 in educational development, Events, News, STEM, STEM teaching

Course Design Institute on Inclusive Teaching

by Joe Bandy and Stacey Johnson We invite you to join in our Course Design Institute on the theme of Inclusive Teaching.  This virtual event will take place via Brightspace and Zoom, May 16 – 19 (9am-4pm Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and 9-12:30pm Thursday). During the four-day institute, participants will (re)design courses with careful attention…

Posted by on March 29, 2022 in CFT Event, course design institute, Events, Inclusive Teaching, News

Queer Teaching, Queer Thriving Learning Community

The Center for Teaching and the K.C. Potter Center for LGBTQI Life are proud to continue our Queer Teaching, Queer Thriving learning community in 2021-2022 with a conversation and workshop hosted by Stephanie Mahnke, Vanderbilt’s new Director of the KCPC and LGBTQI Life. Building upon our Fall conversations about LGBTQI+ well-being and Queer Pedagogy, this…

Posted by on March 21, 2022 in Events, Inclusive Teaching, Learning Communities, News, queer pedagogy

Podcasting Essentials: What you need to know to launch your own podcast

by Rhett McDaniel Have you ever listened to a podcast and been inspired to make one of your own? You can! Producing academic podcasts around your course topics is a great way to help your students learn. In addition, your podcast would be accessible to the nearly 118 million podcast listeners all over the world….

Posted by on March 4, 2022 in Digital Commons, digital media, Events, News, Podcasting, Resource, workshop

CSET Mini-Conference Improving Science Communication: The Promise of Science and Humanities Collaborations – March 18

The Communication of Science and Technology program announces a mini-conference to foster science/humanities collaborations around teaching. See the mini-conference schedule and description of talks by Radiolab founder Jad Abumrad and Communication Professor Leah Ceccarelli, who originated the idea of the “scientist citizen.” CSET Mini-Conference Improving Science Communication: The Promise of Science and Humanities Collaborations Student…

Posted by on March 3, 2022 in Digital Humanities, Events, News, STEM, STEM teaching

Join a CFT Learning Community!

Learning Assistant Instructors  Learning assistants, or LAs, are undergraduates who serve as peer educators in courses that they have previously taken. Supported by training in pedagogy, they extend the reach of faculty members implementing active learning components in a course and help provide personalized experiences that increase students’ sense of belonging. In this learning community,…

Posted by on February 22, 2022 in Events, hybrid teaching, learning assistant program, Learning Communities, News, online teaching, Resource

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