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Spotlight Event: Teaching with Wikipedia

Wikipedia is home to over 55 million articles. The website is a valuable source for information, but it also has systematic knowledge gaps, as well as biases toward historically privileged perspectives. Vanderbilt political scientists Brooke Ackerly and Kristin Michelitch have been working to correct these gaps and biases by engaging their students as Wikipedia contributors. Students are, in…

Posted by on September 16, 2021 in CFT Event, Digital Commons, Events, Online Education

Online Teaching Learning Community

Even before the campus-wide move to online and remote teaching last year, the online teaching group was meeting regularly to explore challenges and opportunities. The Course Development Resources site (CDR), which has grown out of the work of this group over the last two years, is a self-paced guide to designing, building, teaching, or maintaining great courses…

Posted by on June 21, 2021 in Commentary, Events, Learning Communities, Online Education, online teaching

CFT Concludes Latest Online Course Design Institute

To help faculty prepare for teaching this Summer, we offered an Online Course Design Institute (OCDI). The institute was a revised and updated version of the institute that the Center for Teaching offered in summer 2020 to more than 500 participants. Participants worked in three cohorts led by CFT Senior Staff Members Cynthia Brame, Julaine…

Posted by on June 16, 2021 in Commentary, Events, News, ocdi, online course design institute, online courses, Online Education, online teaching

Liberating Zoom: Strategies for Better Online Discussions

Friday, August 21, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  Join the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities this Friday for a highly interactive, hands-on exploration of strategies that help build more inclusive and engaged teaching and research communities, online and in person. Liberating Structures, led by Anna Jackson and Fisher Qua, is a methodology grounded in the idea that the strategies commonly…

Posted by on August 19, 2020 in Events, Online Education, online teaching, Zoom

Apply Now for the Online Course Design Institute

The Center for Teaching invites Vanderbilt faculty, postdocs, and graduate students to apply to its new Online Course Design Institute, a two-week online experience intended to help participants prepare to teach an online course. The Online Course Design Institute will be offered multiple times this summer and we are now accepting applications. During the institute participants will:…

Posted by on June 2, 2020 in course design institute, Events, News, ocdi, online course design institute, Online Education

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,

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

Graduate Students Present Investigations of Teaching Tools and Approaches

Support for students learning real analysis. Tools to foster student collaboration in a fully online setting. Opportunities for students to learn important clinical skills. These are some of the problems that BOLD Fellows are tackling in the projects they presented on April 30. Attendees learned about eleven projects during a poster session describing projects for…

Posted by on May 14, 2018 in BOLD, bold fellows, Events, Online Education

Hybrid/Online Teaching Workshop: 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 April 12, 2018 in blended learning, Events, Online Education

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

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