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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

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

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

Physics Forman lecture: YouTube’s ‘Physics Girl’ discusses using videos in science outreach Feb. 28

Dianna Cowern, from YouTube’s The Physics Girl, will be featured at a talk on Thursday, Feb. 28, in the Stevenson Center, Room 4309. The event will begin at 4 p.m. and is open to the Vanderbilt community. It is the Department of Physics and Astronomy’s 2019 Guy and Rebecca Forman Lecture in Science Education. YouTube was originally conceived…

Posted by on February 19, 2019 in Events, News, Online Education, STEM, STEM teaching, Thinking STEM Teaching STEM, Visual Thinking,

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

“Students as Producers” Course Design Institutes for Faculty and Graduate Students

The CFT invites Vanderbilt faculty and graduate students to apply to its 2019 Course Design Institutes on the theme of “Students as Producers.” During the three institutes in May, participants will design (or redesign) courses that engage students not only as consumers of information, but producers of knowledge. Short videos created to explain computer algorithms….

Posted by on February 6, 2019 in CDI, Course Design, course design institute, Events, graduate students, News, Students as Producers

Online Communities: Teaching Digital Literacies Learning Community

How can we encourage students to engage in civil and respective dialogue in digital environments? How can we help our students learn to contribute productively to online communities? Join us for a conversation on teaching students to particpate in online communities at the Center for Teaching on Tuesday, November 13, 2018, from 2:00 to 3:30pm….

Posted by on November 8, 2018 in digital literacies, Events, Learning Communities, News, Online Education

Faculty Workshop Hybrid/Online Teaching: Presence & Interaction Online

Are you interested in creating meaningful learning experiences as part of your current or future online or hybrid course, but not sure where to start? A few practical tools can help ease the transition to online teaching. Come explore online teaching strategies in this workshop designed for a range of experience levels–from those just thinking…

Posted by on November 7, 2018 in Events, Faculty Teaching Workshop, hybrid course, News, online courses

Faculty Workshop Hybrid/Online Teaching: Presence & Interaction Online

Are you interested in creating meaningful learning experiences as part of your current or future online or hybrid course, but not sure where to start? A few practical tools can help ease the transition to online teaching. Come explore online teaching strategies in this workshop designed for a range of experience levels–from those just thinking…

Posted by on November 7, 2018 in Events, Faculty Teaching Workshop, hybrid course, News, online courses

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