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Tweeting the #CFT25Ann – Expanding Participation at the Center’s 25th Anniversary Symposium
Sep. 21, 2011—by Dan Morrison, CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow This post is part of our series of posts related to the CFT’s 25th anniversary. I tweeted 70 times during the CFT’s 25th anniversary events the other week. For the uninitiated, Twitter is a micro-blogging service that allows users to transmit messages of up to 140 characters via...
The Future of Teaching – A Report from the CFT’s 25th Anniversary Symposium
Sep. 15, 2011—by Derek Bruff, CFT Acting Director Earlier this week, I blogged about one of the two public events the CFT hosted as part of our 25th anniversary celebration, a keynote on deep learning by CFT founding director Ken Bain. Our other big anniversary event last week was a symposium on the future of teaching and...
Fostering Deep Learning – A Report from the CFT’s 25th Anniversary
Sep. 12, 2011—by Derek Bruff, CFT Acting Director Last week the CFT celebrated its 25th anniversary with two big campus events: a keynote talk by Ken Bain, founding director of the CFT and author of What the Best College Teachers Do, and a half-day symposium on the future of teaching at Vanderbilt. In this post, I’ll share...
Introduction to the CFT at the Provost’s Orientation
Aug. 22, 2011—by Derek Bruff, Acting Director I’m presenting briefly this morning at the Provost Office’s orientation for new faculty. Below you’ll find the visuals from this overview of CFT offerings for faculty. CFT Overview on Prezi
Teaching and Research at a Teaching-Intensive Institution (August 19th)
Aug. 10, 2011—From this week’s BRET Office of Career Development newsletter… “The BRET Office of Career Development and Department of Biological Sciences are pleased to present a special seminar and discussion with Dr. Leticia Vega, Assistant Professor of Biology at Barry University. Dr. Vega will present her research and talk about her role as a scientist and...
Position Opening – Educational Consultant – Applications Due July 20th
Jul. 15, 2011—We’re hiring! We’re looking for an Educational Consultant, a term position lasting 10-12 months with an anticipated start date of August 1, 2011. That’s right around the corner, so if you’re interested, please submit your application, and if you know of someone who might be interested, please spread the word. The Educational Consultant will work...
Inquiry-Based Biology Labs Give Students a Taste of Research
May. 31, 2011—by CFT Assistant Director Derek Bruff David Salisbury, one of the writers for Vanderbilt’s Research News, recently blogged about the inquiry-based biological sciences lab course designed and taught by senior lecturer Steve Baskauf. The course is an alternative to the standard second-semester lab course. It offers students an opportunity to design their own experiments to...
CFT Assistant Director Quoted in New York Times Article on “Backchannels”
May. 17, 2011—by CFT Assistant Director Derek Bruff A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel for a story on the use of “backchannels” in education. A backchannel is a second conversation stream in a classroom or at a conference, typically one leveraging digital tools to complement the lecture or...
Five Ideas for Mobile Learning (#EDUSprint)
May. 9, 2011—by CFT Assistant Director Derek Bruff During the last week of April, EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit organization that promotes and supports the use of information technology in higher education, hosted the Mobile Computing Sprint, a five-day series of online events on the use of mobile computing in higher education. Although some of the discussion was directed...
Teaching-as-Research Fellows Poster Session & Call for Proposals
May. 5, 2011—As part of the 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 at Vanderbilt. CIRTL defines TAR as follows: “Teaching-as-Research involves the deliberate, systematic, and reflective use of research methods to develop and implement teaching practices...