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junior faculty teaching fellow spotlights: latonya trotter and courtney cook

nov. 11, 2015—each month, the cft newsletter highlights the work of our junior faculty teaching fellows. this month, latonya trotter, sociology, and courtney cook, nursing, talk about their teaching philosophy and interests. latonya trotter i am a medical sociologist.  however, most of my students are future physicians, nurses, and engineers, not social scientists.  therefore, my course goals...

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bold fellows program now accepting applications for 2016

nov. 10, 2015—the bold fellows program is designed to help graduate student/faculty teams build expertisein 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 develop online modules for integration into a course, either as a tool to promote flipping the classroom, a module...

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upcoming blackboard support offerings

nov. 9, 2015—drop-in support hours for november/december blackboard support at the cft will be offering drop-in times in november and december for faculty, graduate students, and staff using blackboard. come get technical and pedagogical support from a team of blackboard specialists during our drop-in support hours: monday            11/9/15 1-3pm monday            11/16/15 1-3pm monday            11/30/15  1-3pm monday            12/7/15 1-3pm...

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graduate fellow wins poster award at health professions education research day

nov. 5, 2015—hannah krimm, phd student in hearing & speech sciences and a bold fellow, recently received the blue ribbon poster award at the 2015 gerald s. gotterer health professions education research day (hperd). hannah’s poster, entitled “effect of an online learning module for transcription and phonological awareness,” is based on the study and development of the...

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thatcamp vanderbilt: explore the digital humanities november 6-7

nov. 4, 2015—this weekend marks the fourth annual thatcamp vanderbilt, which will occur this friday and saturday, november 6th and 7th, at the vanderbilt curb center for enterprise and public policy, located at 1801 edgehill avenue, nashville, tn 37212. the event is free and open to the public. visit the thatcamp vanderbilt website to see the latest schedule...

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bold fellows program helps develop online instruction

oct. 23, 2015—vanderbilt’s 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 and the cirtl network (center for the integration of research, teaching, and learning) share a mission to enhance excellence in undergraduate teaching. the cft and cirtl are partnering to offer the bold fellows program, which is support by nsf grant due-1231286 to the cirtl network. 2015-16 bold fellow teams the program...

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new cft teaching guide on group work

oct. 22, 2015—we’ve all been there: victims of unproductive and frustrating group work. perhaps an instructor poses a question, tells us to turn to our neighbor and discuss it, and we all sit silently…because the answer’s obvious and there’s nothing to discuss. or perhaps we have an end-of-semester project to develop, and two of the four group...

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cft helps to develop a free online course on undergraduate stem teaching

oct. 20, 2015— “an introduction to evidence-based undergraduate stem teaching” is an open, online course designed to provide future stem faculty—graduate students and post-docs—with an introduction to effective teaching strategies and the research that supports them. the goal of the eight-week course is to equip the next generation of stem (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) faculty to be effective teachers,...

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junior faculty teaching fellow spotlight: anna richmond, nursing

oct. 19, 2015—each month, the cft newsletter highlights the work of our junior faculty teaching fellows. this month anna richmond, nursing,  talks about her teaching philosophy and interests. anna richmond i teach clinical and didactic nursing courses to family nurse practitioner students at the 瑞士vs喀麦隆走地 school of nursing. i also co-teach a course in interprofessional education to...

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junior faculty teaching fellow spotlight: anand vivek taneja

oct. 15, 2015— each month, the cft newsletter highlights the work of our junior faculty teaching fellows. this month anand vivek taneja, religious studies, talks about his teaching philosophy and interests. anand vivek taneja i am an anthropologist of religion, and i work on new religious forms and inter-religious relations in modern south asia. my book, jinnealogy: time, islam,...

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