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The University’s Social Responsibilities – A Faculty View of the CFT’s 25th Anniversary Symposium
Sep. 27, 2011—This is a guest post by Doug Fisher. Doug is an associate professor of computer science and computer engineering. Doug also recently served as a program director in the National Science Foundation’s Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. This post is part of our series of posts related to the CFT’s 25th anniversary. I thoroughly...
Upcoming Event: Leading Effective Discussions
Sep. 24, 2011—Have you registered yet? Register now for Leading Effective Discussions. Date & Time: Thursday, September 29, 4:10-5:30 Facilitator: CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow Format: Teaching Workshop Audience: Graduate Students and Post-Docs Effective discussions can provoke profound learning, yet they can be challenging to create and particularly to sustain. In this interactive session you will pursue strategies for...
Responding to Changing Technologies – A Report from the CFT’s 25th Anniversary Symposium
Sep. 23, 2011—by Derek Bruff, CFT Acting Director In my last post, I shared some highlights from the first hour of our discussion of changing technologies at the CFT’s 25th anniversary symposium earlier this month. The discussion raised several challenges in responding to our changing technological world, including: meeting student expectations for technology use in higher education,...
Junior Faculty Teaching Fellow Spotlight: Jon Edd
Sep. 23, 2011—Each month, the CFT Newsletter highlights the work of our Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. This month, Jon Edd, Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department talks about his teaching philosophy and interests: After teaching thermodynamics for a year and a half, I find that one of the primary challenges for students is to assimilate the...
Changing Technologies – A Report from the CFT’s 25th Anniversary Symposium
Sep. 22, 2011—by Derek Bruff, CFT Acting Director As I mentioned last week, our 25th anniversary symposium was a fantastic event, with faculty, students, and staff engaged in deep and important discussions about the future of teaching at Vanderbilt. One of the themes of the discussion was the challenge to teaching and learning provided by changing technologies....
New Workshop Added: Why Students Behave the Way They Do
Sep. 22, 2011—Why Students Behave the Way They Do: A Teacher’s Guide to Cognitive Development “Why do we have to do group work? It’s such a waste of time! Just lecture and tell us what we need to know.” Are you curious why you hear this phrase in your classes? Why your students are reluctant to work...
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...