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CIRTL Online Coffee Hour Series: Fostering Critical Thinking in the STEM Classroom
April 12, 2013 — Fostering Critical Thinking Wednesday, April 17th 1-2 pm National polls indicate that over 90% of faculty believe critical thinking is the most important part of undergraduate education, yet how do we foster critical thinking in our teaching? Identifying what it...... KEEP READING »
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CIRTL Online Coffee Hour Series: Building an Academic Career
January 17, 2013 — Alternative academic career (alt-ac) opportunities appear to be increasing in both number and prominence. What are these positions, and how can you pursue them? How can your teaching or research experience be an asset in these positions? What are the...... KEEP READING »
Tags: Career, CIRTL, STEM
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CIRTL Online Coffee Hour: Teaching at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution, 9/27 at 1pm
September 24, 2012 — See below for this week’s offering from the CIRTL Network’s online coffee house series on building academic careers in science, engineering, and mathematics. This week’s coffee house features two Vanderbilt alumnae, Tara Davis (Mathematics) and Heather Whitney (Physics). Teaching at...... KEEP READING »
Tags: CIRTL, Future Faculty, STEM
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Leveraging Student Interests through Social Bookmarking
August 29, 2012 — by Derek Bruff, CFT Director I have a new guest post over on the CIRTL Network website describing my use of social bookmarking tools like Delicious and Diigo in my math courses. The post is titled “Leveraging Student Interests through...... KEEP READING »
Tags: CIRTL, Educational Technology, Social Pedagogies, STEM
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Please Take Out Your Cell Phones
July 24, 2012 — by Derek Bruff, CFT Director I have a blog post on mobile learning (using mobile devices like phones and tablets in education) posted over on the CIRTL Network website today. Here’s an excerpt from the post, “Please Take Out Your...... KEEP READING »
Tags: CIRTL, Educational Technology, Mobile Learning, STEM
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Teaching-as-Research Fellows Share Completed Projects
May 11, 2012 — As part of the national Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) Network activities at Vanderbilt, the CFT co-sponsors the Teaching-as-Research (TAR) Fellows program for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields. This...... KEEP READING »
Tags: CIRTL, SoTL
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Two Talks: Digital Devices in the Classroom & Upper-Level Physics Reform
April 24, 2012 — by CFT director Derek Bruff Vanderbilt is part of the CIRTL Network, a 25-institution group of universities collaborating on the preparation of science, engineering, and math graduate students and post-docs for future teaching roles. One of the CIRTL Network programs...... KEEP READING »
Tags: CIRTL, Course Design, Educational Technology, STEM
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CIRTL Coffee Hour 4/17: Alternative academic careers
April 13, 2012 — The 2011-2012 CIRTL Coffee Hour Series provides an opportunity for STEM (science, technology, engineering, & math) graduate students and post docs to get together online and talk about careers and the academic job search. The series is facilitated by a mix...... KEEP READING »
Tags: Career, CIRTL, Graduate Education
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CIRTL Coffee Hour 3/20: Maintaining balance and resilience in your professional and personal life
March 16, 2012 — The 2011-2012 CIRTL Coffee Hour Series provides an opportunity for STEM (science, technology, engineering, & math) graduate students and post docs to get together online and talk about careers and the academic job search. The series is facilitated by a mix...... KEEP READING »
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CIRTL Coffee Hour 2/21: On the job market: Varied paths to the Professoriate
February 17, 2012 — The 2011-2012 CIRTL Coffee Hour Series provides an opportunity for STEM (science, technology, engineering, & math) graduate students and post docs to get together online and talk about careers and the academic job search. The series is facilitated by a mix...... KEEP READING »
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