“Why I Am a VUceptor” by CFT Assistant Director Kat Baker
Aug. 19, 2010—Today at the Commons, about a hundred Vanderbilt faculty are participating in training to be VUceptors. Each of these faculty members will partner with a Vanderbilt undergraduate and meet regularly with a small group of Vanderbilt first-years during their orientation experience and into the fall semester as part of Vanderbilt Visions. Visions is designed to...
New CFT Guide on Sustainability and Pedagogy
Aug. 16, 2010—As part of the CFT’s ongoing work on sustainability across the curriculum (including a fall workshop, “Sustainability in the Classroom: Ecological Footprints“), we’ve developed a new teaching guide titled “Sustainability and Pedagogy.” The guide includes a discussion of the environmental, economic, and social aspects of sustainability, as well as strategies and resources for teaching issues...
Call for Proposals – NEA Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants – Due October 5, 2010
Aug. 12, 2010—The Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities is requesting proposals for another round of digital humanities start-up grants. From the call for proposals: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invites applications to the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program. This program is designed to encourage innovations in the digital humanities....
Resources for Syllabi and Course Design
Aug. 10, 2010—Just in time for Fall, in this ProfHacker column from The Chronicle for Higher Education, Natalie Houston provides a useful set of resources for syllabi and course design featuring our own Assistant Director, Derek Bruff. If you are interested in receiving further help (re)designing your Fall course, please register for the CFT’s “Just-in-Time Course Design”...
New Book Offers a Fierce Critique of Modern Academia
Aug. 5, 2010—Andrew Hacker, professor emeritus at Queens College, and Claudia Dreifus from the New York Times have written a provocative new book, Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids and What We Can Do about It. Written as a jeremiad for higher education, it argues that an over-emphasis on disciplinary research,...
Call for Proposals – NSF Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) – Due November 15, 2010
Aug. 3, 2010—From the National Science Foundation, a call for proposals for the Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) program: The Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) program seeks to advance research at the frontiers of STEM learning, education, and evaluation, and to provide the foundational knowledge necessary to...
8/20 Workshop: PowerPoint Makeover Clinic
Jul. 29, 2010—Time & Date: 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., Friday, August 20th Facilitator: Rhett McDaniel, Educational Technologist Format: Teaching Workshop Location: Center for Teaching (1114 19th Avenue South, 3rd floor) Audience: New and Returning Faculty We have all experienced the pain of a bad PowerPoint presentation. And even though we promise ourselves never to make the...
8/19 Workshop – Assessment of Student Learning: Grading Effectively and Efficiently
Jul. 27, 2010—Time & Date: 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., Thursday, August 19th Facilitator: Derek Bruff, CFT Assistant Director Format: Teaching Workshop Location: Center for Teaching (1114 19th Avenue South, 3rd floor) Audience: New and Returning Faculty Whether the assignment is a semester-long project or a one-paragraph essay, student work should be assessed appropriately. That means aligning your...
8/17 Workshop: Just-in-Time Course Design: A Syllabus Clinic
Jul. 23, 2010—Time & Date: 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 17th Facilitator: Joe Bandy, CFT Assistant Director Format: Teaching Workshop Location: Center for Teaching (1114 19th Avenue South, 3rd floor) Audience: New and Returning Faculty With classes starting next week, you probably have a draft syllabus for each of your fall courses. Now is a good...
July 2010 Issue of the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
Jul. 23, 2010—The latest issue of the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is now available. The IJ-SoTL is a free, online, peer-reviewed journal in which faculty members from a variety of disciplines share their research into student learning and teaching practices. Although some contributors are education researchers, many are faculty members from outside...