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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...

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bold fellows program is accepting applications

oct. 13, 2014—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...

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bold fellow lauren palladino develops a series of online astronomy modules

jan. 24, 2014—the bold fellows program is designed to bring together graduate students and faculty members interested in blended and online learning. graduate students develop online learning modules for implementation in a faculty mentor’s course and then gather data on the effects of the modules on student learning. bold fellow lauren palladino worked with faculty mentor dr....

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bold fellow zane ricks creates interactive learning module for biostatistics course

jan. 6, 2014—the bold fellows program is designed to bring together graduate students and faculty members interested in blended and online learning. graduate students develop online learning modules for implementation in a faculty mentor’s course and then gather data on the effects of the modules on student learning. bold fellow zane ricks worked with faculty mentor dr....

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