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Talking with Faculty About Cognitive Science & Learning (POD Essays on Teaching Excellence)
Feb. 16, 2012—CFT Assistant Director Nancy Chick previews an essay by John Girash, Harvard University, appearing in Essays on Teaching Excellence published by the Professional and Organizational Network in Higher Education. In “Talking with Faculty About Cognitive Science & Learning,” one of the essays in POD’s new Essays on Teaching Excellence, John Girash of Harvard connects the brain...
Everyone’s a Visual Learner – A Conference Report
Nov. 15, 2011—by CFT Acting Director Derek Bruff Jose Vazquez of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and I co-facilitated a 75-minute session at the POD Network / HBCU Faculty Development Network joint conference in Atlanta last month. Our session was titled “Everyone’s a Visual Learner: Using Visual Thinking in the Classroom.” The feedback we received on...
Summer Reading: Engaging Students, Assessing Learning (Essays on Teaching Excellence)
Jun. 27, 2011—Engaging Students, Assessing Learning—Just a Click Away Linda C. Hodges, Loyola University Maryland The POD Network Teaching Excellence Essay Series, 2009-10 “Three ongoing challenges for those of us teaching today’s college students, especially in large lecture classes, are: getting students engaged in their learning, assessing what learning is actually taking place, and competing with students’...
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...
See What I Mean: Visual Presentations
Apr. 7, 2011—by CFT Assistant Director Derek Bruff This post is part of our spring “See What I Mean” blog series highlighting the effective use of visuals in presentations and lectures. Yesterday I led a workshop for doctoral students in the Teaching & Learning department here on the use of effective visuals in presentations. The 20 or...
Learning Styles: Fact and Fiction – A Conference Report
Jan. 28, 2011—by Derek Bruff, CFT Assistant Director Back in November I attended the 30th annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching at Miami University in Ohio. I thought I’d share some session highlights with my Vanderbilt colleagues. Here’s the third in a series of posts about the conference. This post is longer than the earlier posts in...
Show and Tell: Using Visual Thinking in the Classroom
Jan. 22, 2011—by Derek Bruff, CFT Assistant Director I’m leading a workshop titled “Show and Tell: Using Visual Thinking in the Classroom” at the CFT’s GradSTEP event this afternoon. Below you’ll find the visuals for my presentation, along with the workshop description for a bit of context. I like to post my slides before my workshops so...
How Technology Enhances Teaching and Learning
Jul. 23, 2010—This article was originally published in the Fall 2000 issue of the CFT’s newsletter, Teaching Forum. By Ellen M. Granberg Students at the Owen School’s Strategy in the New Economy seminar enter a classroom that looks like any other, except that a projection system and video screen have been installed. Their professor announces that today...
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...
From the Students’ View: Thoughts on Technology and Learning
Jul. 20, 2010—This article was originally published in the Fall 2000 issue of the CFT’s newsletter, Teaching Forum. Victor Sung, Senior, A&S, Neuroscience; Benjamin Crist, Freshman, A&S, English; and Dayle Savage, Graduate Student, Peabody, Human Resources Development, reflect on the use of technology in the classroom. CFT : How do you best learn? And how does technology...