‘Online Education’
BOLD Fellows Program is Accepting Applications
Apr. 8, 2015— We are recruiting graduate students to participate in the BOLD Fellows program beginning in August 2015. The BOLD Fellows program is designed to help graduate student/faculty teams build expertise in developing online instructional modules grounded in good course design principles and our understanding of how people learn. STEM faculty members partner with graduate students or postdocs to design...
CIRTL Network Development Opportunities
Mar. 6, 2015—The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) is an NSF Center for Learning and Teaching in higher education. CIRTL has opened registration for upcoming course opportunities. These are free, online events for grad students and post-docs in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) interested in faculty careers. March sessions...
CIRTL Network Development Opportunities
Feb. 11, 2015— The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) is an NSF Center for Learning and Teaching in higher education. CIRTL has opened registration for upcoming course opportunities. These are free, online events for grad students and post-docs in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) interested in faculty careers. January...
From the Director: Vanderbilt’s Course Management System and the CFT
Dec. 17, 2014—The Center for Teaching is taking on a significant new role in the educational technology landscape at Vanderbilt. Starting this spring, the CFT will coordinate and provide technical and pedagogical support for Blackboard, Vanderbilt’s course management system, known locally as OAK. Also, in conjunction with Vice Provost for Learning and Undergraduate Affairs Cynthia Cyrus and...
BOLD Fellows Program is Accepting Applications
Nov. 13, 2014—We are recruiting graduate students to participate in the BOLD Fellows program beginning in January 2015. The BOLD Fellows program is designed to help graduate student/faculty teams build expertise in developing online instructional modules grounded in good course design principles and our understanding of how people learn. STEM faculty members partner with graduate students or postdocs to design and...
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...
BOLD Fellow Lauren Palladino Develops a Series of Online Astronomy Modules
Jan. 24, 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 Lauren Palladino 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...
Coursera as Innovation Accelerator?
Oct. 17, 2012—by Derek Bruff, CFT Director If you watch the talk given by Stanford professor and Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller here at Vanderbilt a couple of weeks ago, it’s easy to miss what might be the most transformative aspect of Coursera’s foray into massive open online courses (MOOCs). Before I point out that aspect, a little...