Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence

Faculty Development

Events

Five Ways to Build e-Learner Confidence with Low-Stakes Grading
April 25, 2012
Online seminar

Find out how frequent low-stakes grading can help foster student-teacher communication, build student confidence, demystify assessment, and encourage a constructive learning environment in Five Ways to Build e-Learner Confidence with Low-Stakes Grading.

Handling Annoying, Disruptive, and Dangerous Students
May 10, 2012
Online seminar

This online seminar gives you the tools you need to take control of your classroom and to promote learning without judging, alienating, or demonizing students. 

The Teaching Professor Conference
June 1-3, 2012
Washington, D.C.

This three-day event, attended by 800+ participants from inside and outside the U.S., features outstanding, peer-reviewed programs on teaching and learning presented by top-notch speakers, all experts in their field.

Service-Learning Course Design Workshop & Consultation 
June 21 & June 28, 2012 (two-part online workshop)

Presented by higher ed's leading expert on service-learning, Dr. Barbara Jacoby, this online program is a hands-on workshop in which you will learn how to successfully introduce service learning to your courses.

Blended Learning Course Design: A Boot Camp for Instructors
September 29-30
Cambridge, MA

In this two-day workshop, you will learn how to take one of your existing face-to-face courses and convert it into a blended format. You'll learn how to feel comfortable and confident with the technology so that IT becomes an aid rather than a barrier to communicating with your students. You'll learn the most pedagogically effective ways to blend instructional technology, course content, and course activities and to promote interaction of students with each other, the instructor, and the content.

Articles

Course Design and Development Ideas That Work from Faculty Focus

Featuring 12 articles pulled from the pages of The Teaching Professor, the report will inspire you to rethink some components of your course, especially if it's one you've taught for a few years and you are feeling in a bit of a rut. This special report examines this multifaceted issue from a variety of fronts to bring you proven course design alternatives implemented in courses of varying sizes and disciplines.

A Syllabus Tip: Embed Big Questions from Faculty Focus

Much has been written about the course syllabus. It's an important tool for classroom management, for setting the tone, for outlining expectations, and for meeting department and university requirements. It's an essential document in a higher education course, but do your students read it? And if they do read it, do they see the real purpose of the course beyond the attendance policy and exam dates? Here's one strategy that will not only encourage your students to read the syllabus, but it will also allow you to stimulate discussion, create curiosity, and assess students' knowledge on the first day of class.