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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

Online and Hybrid Teaching Working Group

by Stacey M. Johnson In this series of three meetings via Zoom, our group will explore experiential teaching online through the lens of telecollaboration, online community engagement, and online course design. Join us for one, two or all three of these conversations in which we will explore resources and challenges associated with experiential online and…

Posted by on March 17, 2022 in Course Design, Events, online teaching, Resource, working groups

Preparing Syllabi for Your First Faculty Job

This working group will support graduates students and postdocs who will be new faculty in the Fall of 2022 and expected to teach their own classes. Starting a new faculty position is stressful and demanding; the CFT hopes to ease this transition by helping graduating doctoral students and postdocs create their needed syllabi in advance…

Posted by on March 15, 2022 in Events, Faculty, Resource, syllabus, working groups,

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

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

Reaching Students through Open Pedagogy and Digital Media

In this workshop, participants will be invited to consider how they might pursue a more open pedagogy through the creation and sharing of digital media. Andy Wesolek, director of digital scholarship and scholarly communications at the Vanderbilt Libraries, will explore the practice of open pedagogy and the benefits it can bring to faculty and to…

Posted by on January 24, 2022 in Digital Commons, digital media, Digital Pedagogy, Events, News, Resource, Teaching Workshops, workshop

From the Executive Director

  As I write this, snow is falling in Nashville, and I’m reminded of all the challenges our local community has faced over the last two years, from tornadoes and storms to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The teaching community at Vanderbilt has had to adapt again and again over the last two years, and I…

Posted by on January 18, 2022 in About the CFT, CFT Programs, CFT Services, CFT staff, Events, News, Resource

Teach Coding? Learn About a tool for integrating enhanced Jupyter Notebooks into Your Teaching

As part of a Course Improvement Grant project, associate professor of biomedical engineering Will Grissom been using Pathbird, a tool that runs enhanced Jupyter notebooks (in Python, Julia, or R). It allows students to navigate to their site with no additional setup, and the instructor can interleave autograders, multiple choice questions, and short answer questions with…

Posted by on December 6, 2021 in Commentary, computer science, Events, Resource, STEM teaching, Zoom

Transform your teaching with Perusall with Eric Mazur

Learning is a social experience — it requires interactions and interactivity. The coronavirus pandemic has been a good opportunity to rethink our approach to teaching. Moving some tasks to an online format suggests that many activities that have traditionally been synchronous and instructor-paced, can be made asynchronous and self-paced. Through Perusall, we will demonstrate how…

Posted by on March 10, 2021 in Events, Perusall, Resource

Wish You Could Have Attended One of Our January Events?

Last month, the CFT hosted workshops and conversions on a wide variety of teaching topics. If you weren’t able to attend, you don’t have to miss out! We have recordings of many of our past events available on our website. Topics include: Synchronous Sessions in Online Courses Hybrid courses: Approaches to engage your virtual and F2F…

Posted by on February 3, 2021 in Events, hybrid teaching, online teaching, Resource, Teaching Workshops

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