Episode 40 – From a Student’s View: AXLE Writing Requirements

March 21, 2013 — In this first installment of a two-part podcast, our CFT student reporter, Erin Baldwin, hears thoughts from a Vanderbilt junior about the Achieving Excellence in Liberal Education core curriculum (more commonly referred to as the AXLE requirements) that all students...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Assessment, Course Design, Student Expectations, Teaching Writing
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A Conversation about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

March 1, 2013 — by Derek Bruff, CFT Director Last Thursday, February 21st, the Center for Teaching and the Library hosted “Teaching to Thousands: A Conversation about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs),” an event featuring faculty panelists Douglas Schmidt (Computer Science) and Jamie Pope...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Course Design, Coursera, Educational Technology, MOOCs
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Teaching Large Classes

January 31, 2013 — By Cynthia J. Brame, CFT Assistant Director Teaching large classes can pose particular challenges. How do you personalize interaction in a class with more than 100—or even more than 200—students? How do you promote student engagement when it’s so easy...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Conversations on Teaching, Course Design, Large Classes
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Ask Professor Pedagogy: Designing a Guest Lecture

November 2, 2012 — Ask Professor Pedagogy is a twice monthly advice column written by Center for Teaching staff. One aspect of our mission is to cultivate dialogue about teaching and learning, so we welcome questions and concerns that arise in the classroom; particularly...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Ask Professor Pedagogy, Course Design
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Strategies for Grading Workshop: Additional Resources

September 13, 2012 — CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow, Beth Koontz, offers additional resources on grading and assessing student work. The CFT recently hosted a teaching workshop on Effective and Efficient Grading focusing on the purposes of grading and how to grade in ways that...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Active Learning, Assessment, Course Design, Grading, Student Motivation
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Summertime and Course Redesign

July 6, 2012 — In a recent article in Inside Higher Ed, Benjamin Rifkin, Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the College of New Jersey, outlines why and how the summer months can be the best time to review your...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Course Design, Pedagogical Theory, Reflection, Teaching Documentation
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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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GradSTEP recap: Syllabus Construction

January 31, 2012 — This blog post is written by Dan Morrison, a CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow. Dan led the Course & Syllabus Design session at GradSTEP on January 21, 2012. You can download the PowerPoint andhandouts from this session. Syllabus Design: Blueprints for Learning instead...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Course Design, GradSTEP
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GradSTEP recap: Course Design

January 28, 2012 — This blog post is written by Dan Morrison, a CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow. Dan led the Course & Syllabus Design session at GradSTEP on January 21, 2012. You can download the PowerPoint and handouts from this session. “Integrating Learning Goals, Feedback...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Course Design, GradSTEP
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From the Stacks…

January 17, 2012 — The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map: Communicating Your Course By Linda B. Nilson From the publisher… An instructor’s topical organization is the basic framework of his or her course as well as the core of the syllabus. This book...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Course Design, Visual Thinking
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