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the cft is hiring!
aug. 12, 2019—we are now accepting applications for a digital media specialist to provide guidance and instruction to all university instructors, regardless of technology experience, who want to improve their technology skills and incorporate digital media into their teaching. the digital media specialist maintains the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分’s audio/visual production equipment and facilities and creates end-user training...
just-in-time teaching conference august 19th and 20th
aug. 9, 2019—it’s never too late to make a good decision, right? although planning fall courses starts long before the start of classes, we recognize that many instructors are still making course design and implementation decisions right up to the wire. that’s why we’re offering a variety of teaching workshops for vanderbilt instructors on august 19th and...
signal-to-noise in the classroom
aug. 5, 2019—by cynthia j. brame, cft associate director i’ve been thinking a lot about signal-to-noise ratio this summer. my post-doctoral research relied heavily on mass spectrometry of complex mixtures, and we thought a lot about signal-to-noise and whether we were missing the thing we were after in a sea of other things our instrument could detect....
exciting changes to the certificate in college teaching program!
jul. 15, 2019—in fall 2019, the cft will be rolling out exciting changes to the certificate in college teaching (cict) program. previously, we offered a certificate in college teaching (cict) and certificate in humanities teaching and learning (chtl) for vanderbilt graduate students and postdocs. the chtl shared a lot of core features of the cict in order...
junior faculty spotlight: susan douglas
jul. 12, 2019—each month, the cft newsletter highlights the work of our junior faculty teaching fellows. in this spotlight, susan douglas, leadership, policy, and organizations, talks about her teaching philosophy and interests. i have been in a teaching role at 瑞士vs喀麦隆走地 since 2014. i started as a part-time assistant professor of the practice in the psychology...
junior faculty spotlight: kejia hu
jul. 11, 2019—each month, the cft newsletter highlights the work of our junior faculty teaching fellows. in this spotlight, kejia hu, operations management, talks about her teaching philosophy and interests. i am an assistant professor of operations management at the owen graduate school of management. my research mainly focuses on empirical operations management on service operations and...
junior faculty spotlight: yuankai (kenny) tao
jul. 10, 2019—each month, the cft newsletter highlights the work of our junior faculty teaching fellows. this time, we highlighted yuankai kenny tao, biomedical engineering, who talks about his teaching philosophy and interests. i have been an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at 瑞士vs喀麦隆走地 since 2016. i am the director of the diagnostic imaging and image-guided...
junior faculty spotlight: sophie bjork-james
jul. 9, 2019—each month, the cft newsletter highlights the work of our junior faculty teaching fellows. this month, sophie bjork-james, anthropology, talks about her eaching philosophy and interests. i teach anthropology classes on reproductive politics, race and racism, and climate change. modeling how to engage in controversial conversations in productive ways is thus a focus of my...
faculty panel considers future of digital literacies on leading lines podcast
jun. 24, 2019—on leading lines, we usually talk with educators, researchers, and technologists about what they’re doing now, and ask them a question or two about where they’d like to see educational technology go in the next few years. in this episode, however, we’re going to camp out in the future. the vanderbilt 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 recently...
cft is accepting applications for a lead instructional technologist!
jun. 20, 2019—we’re hiring! the cft is seeking applicants for a lead instructional technologist position. this position will support faculty, students, and staff at vanderbilt to enhance student learning through the use of brightspace, vanderbilt’s course management system, and other online learning platforms. the lead instructional technologist will report to the cft’s assistant director for educational technology...