BOLD Fellows Program is Accepting Applications

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…

Posted on October 13, 2014 in Events, bold fellows, Educational Technology, graduate students, STEM, Student Projects

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Students as Producers: Animating Organic Chemistry

By Nayana Bose, CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow   The CFT’s “Students as Producers” theme year culminated in our end-of-year event, the Celebration of Learning. As a part of the celebration, an exhibition of 25 student projects from all four undergraduate schools showcased a wide variety of student work. This series of blog posts highlights some…

Posted on June 16, 2014 in Events, News, Celebration of Learning, From a Student's View, STEM, Student Projects, Students as Producers

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Student as Producer: Poverty in the US: How Education Becomes a Scapegoat

By Nayana Bose, CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow   The CFT’s “Students as Producers” theme year culminated in our end-of-year event, the Celebration of Learning. As a part of the celebration, an exhibition of 25 student projects from all four undergraduate schools showcased a wide variety of student work. This series of blog posts highlights some…

Posted on June 10, 2014 in Events, News, Celebration of Learning, From a Student's View, Student Poster Sessions, Student Projects, Students as Producers

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Students as Producers: Vanderbilt Commodore Orchestra

The CFT’s “Students as Producers” theme year culminated in our end-of-year event, the Celebration of Learning. As a part of the celebration, an exhibition of 25 student projects from all four undergraduate schools showcased a wide variety of student work. This series of blog posts highlights some of the student projects from the exhibition.  …

Posted on May 19, 2014 in News, Celebration of Learning, From a Student's View, Student Projects, Students as Producers

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Students as Producers: “¿Dónde está él?” (“Where is he?”)

The CFT’s “Students as Producers” theme year culminated in our end-of-year event, the Celebration of Learning. As a part of the celebration, an exhibition of 25 student projects from all four undergraduate schools showcased a wide variety of student work. This series of blog posts highlights some of the student projects from the exhibition. Student:…

Posted on May 16, 2014 in News, Celebration of Learning, foreign language teaching, From a Student's View, Student Projects, Students as Producers

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Students as Producers: Designing For Marie Antoinette

The CFT’s “Students as Producers” theme year culminated in our end-of-year event, the Celebration of Learning. As a part of the celebration, an exhibition of 25 student projects from all four undergraduate schools showcased a wide variety of student work. This series of blog posts highlights some of the student projects from the exhibition. Student:…

Posted on May 14, 2014 in News, Celebration of Learning, From a Student's View, Student Projects, Students as Producers

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The Power of Design: What design projects can teach our students—and us

By Cynthia J. Brame, Assistant Director  This year, the CFT has adopted a “Students as Producers” theme, exploring ways that instructors can scaffold their classes to help students do meaningful, creative work. Design projects, the linchpin of any engineering curriculum, illustrate some of the key benefits and lessons of helping your students be producers. I’ve…

Posted on February 13, 2014 in News, Course Design, STEM, Student Projects, Students as Producers, Undergrad Research

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SoTL Spotlight: Reflections from a SoTL Project

by Andrew Greer, CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow Learning happens (or doesn’t), and the processes often remain hidden. Teachers tend to modify their teaching with trial and error, and base these modifications on assumptions about the problems with student learning. However, instead of being guided by hunches, scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) researchers strive to…

Posted on November 20, 2013 in Commentary, Graduate Education, Social Sciences, SoTL, Student Projects

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Self-Authoring Community Activism:
Women & Gender Studies Students as Producers

by Nancy Chick, CFT Assistant Director The CFT’s theme this year, “Students as Producers,” has given me the opportunity to talk with some talented and thoughtful colleagues across campus. On October 24, I brought together three of them to have a conversation on teaching about “Producing, Performing, & Creating Learning across the Humanities: Models of…

Posted on October 30, 2013 in Commentary, News, Resource, Humanities, Student Projects, Students as Producers

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Experiments in Open Education and Active Learning: A Report from the Celebration of Teaching

by Derek Bruff, CFT Director, and Sarah Collier, 2013 Teaching Certificate Recipient and 2012-13 SoTL Scholar Colleges and universities across North America focus a significant amount of attention on the student-to-instructor ratios in their classrooms, often touting low ratios as reasons to enroll. In recent months, however, it has been fashionable to announce incredibly high…

Posted on May 21, 2013 in News, celebration of teaching, Coursera, MOOCs, open educational resources, Student Projects

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