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lectures and visual thinking in #stemteaching
feb. 5, 2015—by derek bruff, cft director the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 has recently started sharing on its youtube channel videos created for last fall’s open online course, “an introduction to evidence-based undergraduate stem teaching.” vivian finch, cft graduate teaching fellow and queen of social media here at the cft, is blogging about these videos in a series...
call for proposals – digital immigrants and digital natives: filling the void
jan. 6, 2015—guest post by megan myers, co-president of the gsmla if you are not a graduate student in the french and italian, german, or spanish and portuguese departments here at vanderbilt, you likely have not heard of the graduate student modern language association (gsmla). my fellow graduate student in the french department, raquelle bostow, and i...
from the director: vanderbilt’s course management system and the cft
dec. 17, 2014—the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 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...
trickle up
oct. 27, 2014—by derek bruff, cft director. cross-posted from derek’s blog, agile learning. i’ve been busy this month with a variety of activities worth blogging about: the cirtl network mooc on stem teaching, the de lange conference on the future of higher education at rice university, and this weekend’s thatcamp unconference at vanderbilt. perhaps i will blog...
an introduction to evidence-based undergraduate stem teaching – starts today!
oct. 6, 2014—“an introduction to evidence-based undergraduate stem teaching” is a free online course that begins today. the course is a production of the center for the integration of research, teaching, and learning (cirtl), a network of 22 research universities, including vanderbilt, collaborating in the preparation of stem graduate students and post-docs as future faculty members. vanderbilt...
a new guide to course management tools
sep. 29, 2014—by derek bruff, cft director as vanderbilt faculty, staff, and students have learned this fall, vanderbilt’s course management system, oak (powered by blackboard), is currently experiencing significant delays. while the oak team at vuit continues working to fix these problems, instructors who find oak’s slow performance to be disruptive to their teaching might want to...
college teaching: a panel for future stem faculty – october 14th
sep. 22, 2014—as part of their phd career connections series, vanderbilt’s biomedical research education & training (bret) office is hosting a panel on college teaching for phd students in the sciences. the panel is scheduled for 9-10am on tuesday, october 14th, and features mark forsyth, associate professor of biology at the college of william and mary, and...
first person singular
sep. 17, 2014—by derek bruff, cft director, cross-posted from derek’s blog, agile learning your first paper assignment asks you to make an argument drawing largely on your personal experiences and perspectives. did you have writing assignments in high school that asked you to do this? i asked this question of the students in my first-year writing seminar...
vanderbilt undergraduate research fair – september 1st, 4-5:30pm
aug. 29, 2014—by derek bruff, cft director as part of our “students as producers” theme last year, the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 brought attention to teaching strategies that engage students not only as consumers of information, but also as producers of knowledge. we focused largely on the context of credit-bearing courses because we knew vanderbilt already had a...
interested in the digital humanities? apply to be a hastac scholar – deadline sept. 1
aug. 19, 2014—by derek bruff, cft director if you’re a graduate student in the humanities interested in exploring the intersections of teaching, scholarship, and technology, please consider applying to be a hastac scholar for 2014-15. the deadline for applications is september 1st. hastac (pronounced “haystack”) is the humanities, arts, science, and technology advanced collaboratory, a global network...