‘Educational Technology’
TAing to Thousands: A Graduate Student MOOC Panel
Mar. 19, 2014—What is it like to serve as a teaching assistant in a course with thousands of students? On February 24, 2014, the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning, Center for Teaching, Graduate School, and Jean & Alexander Heard Library co-sponsored a panel of graduate students (and one undergraduate student) who have served as Teaching Assistants for...
Learn to Produce or Produce to Learn?
Feb. 5, 2014—Vanderbilt faculty members have found a variety of ways to engage students as producers in their classes and guided students to produce work for authentic audiences. The CFT celebrated its 16th annual Graduate Student Teaching Event for Professional Development (GradSTEP) by focusing on our theme for this year, “Students as Producers.” The day started with a...
Blended and Online Learning
Feb. 3, 2014—by Blaine Smith and Cynthia J. Brame Print Version Cite this guide: Smith, B., & Brame, C. (2014). Blended and Online Learning. Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. Retrieved [todaysdate] from https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/blended-and-online-learning/. Online courses are those in which at least 80 percent of course content is delivered online. Blended (sometimes called hybrid) instruction has between 30...
Students as Producers + Educational Technology
Jan. 25, 2014—by Derek Bruff, CFT Director I’m presenting this morning during the first set of concurrent sessions at the CFT’s GradSTEP event for graduate students and post-docs. The session is titled “Using Technology to Support Students as Producers of Knoweldge,” and it combines two of my favorite topics: students as producers plus educational technology. Certainly, technology...
BOLD Fellow Zane Ricks Creates Interactive Learning Module for Biostatistics Course
Jan. 6, 2014—The BOLD Fellows program is designed to bring together graduate students and faculty members interested in blended and online learning. Graduate students develop online learning modules for implementation in a faculty mentor’s course and then gather data on the effects of the modules on student learning. BOLD Fellow Zane Ricks worked with faculty mentor Dr....
Call for Applications: Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning (VIDL) Graduate Fellowships
Aug. 8, 2013—from Doug Fisher, Director of Vanderbilt’s new Institute for Digital Learning: The Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning (VIDL) invites applications for graduate student fellowships for the 2013-2014 academic year. Fellowships ranging from 10 to 20 hours per week, for one or both semesters, will be considered, with health insurance if desired. Because VIDL’s operations are...
Teaching with Technology: Profile of Eric Mentges
Jun. 18, 2013—by Zoe LeBlanc, CFT’s HASCTAC Scholar 2013 Eric Mentges (B.A., The Ohio State University) is a second-year student in the Masters of Arts program in the Classics Department at Vanderbilt. In the program, all second-year students are required to teach both semesters, and Eric has used the opportunity to explore teaching Latin with PowerPoint. So...
Teaching with Technology: Profile of Paul Morrow
Jun. 17, 2013—by Zoe LeBlanc, CFT’s HASCTAC Scholar 2013 Paul Morrow is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He is writing a dissertation on the application of the concepts of conventions and social norms to theories of mass atrocity and transitional justice. Paul is currently teaching the McGill Seminar in Philosophy, a...
Social Pedagogies: Language Teaching with Google Earth and Wikis
May. 16, 2013—by Andrew Greer, 2013 Teaching Certificate Recipient and 2012-13 SoTL Scholar Many of us have memories of foreign language classes with seemingly never-ending repetitions of semi-useful phrases. I remember learning German for years, only to be surprised by my lack of fluency when I traveled to Austria. The repetition of banal phrases in my German...
Learning and the MOOC, an Online Conference, April 3rd and 4th
Apr. 1, 2013—This Wednesday and Thursday, April 3-4, the Center for Teaching will host the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Spring Focus Session titled “Learning and the MOOC.” This online event will be streamed in the CFT workshop space and will feature presentations by almost two dozen faculty and administrators from colleges and universities around the world experimenting...