The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) has determined award recipients for the 2016-2017 Butine Faculty Development Fund Fall cycle, according to committee chair Aaron Wootton, mathematics. Butine award recipients are: Alfrey, Lauren: “Geek Girls: Race, Gender and Power in the Tech Industry,” $3,300 Barber, Halina & Amber Vermeesch: “Road Less Traveled: Stressors and Coping […]
Teaching and Learning Collaborative
TLC from the TLC: Rethinking How Office Hours Are Kept
This week’s selection from the Teaching and Learning Collaborative comes from Zachary Simmons, psychological sciences. Like many UP professors, he does his best to carve office hours in stone, held invioalate for the good of his students, but life always seems to do its best to wreak havoc on his best laid plans. Sound familiar? […]
TLC Tip of the Week: CaptureSpace
CaptureSpace is the simplest way to turn a presentation into a video to share with students. Faculty can use this tool to capture video as part of a flipped classroom or use screencast videos to provide feedback to students. Also, CaptureSpace makes it easy to record audio as part of podcast lectures for online, hybrid, […]
Interactive Video in Education
This week from the Teaching and Learning Collaborative website: “Using Interactive Video to Improve Learning Outcomes,” an exploration of the state and future of interactive video in learning. The brief white paper, offered by Kaltura, Inc, provider of UP’s MediaSpace service, asserts that “Interactive video is bringing about a revolution in education, helping teachers engage […]
How We Learn: a Quick Summary
According to recent research, students learn best through distraction, ignorance, interruption, and frequent quitting. This may sound like nonsense on stilts. But according to New York Times science writer Benedict Carey (pictured), successful pedagogy will benefit from such counter-intuitive wisdom. Have a peek at this two-page summation of Carey’s book How We Learn: The Surprising […]
New Tech Talk Podcasts
This week from the Teaching and Learning Collaborative: Shiley School of Engineering professors Tammy VanDeGrift and Niki Schulz appeared on the UP Tech Talk podcast to discuss their experiences using instructional media to “flip” the classroom and create active learning opportunities during class sessions. Go to the TLC blog to stream, download, or subscribe to […]
TLC Resource Of The Week
As the race toward the end of the term accelerates, the Teaching and Learning Collaborative encourages faculty to take a look at this brief article on “Moving From Multi-tasking to Mindfulness,” in which professor Kristin Rousch describes how to help students focus their attention rather than fracture it. The article provides several specific strategies to […]
TLC Tool of the Week: Facework
As midterms and projects and other major student products are well underway, professors may feel a tension between maintaining positive, upbeat interactions with students and the need to provide them with honest feedback on their performance. In this brief video featuring Jeff Kerssen-Griep, communication studies, faculty can learn three specific strategies for communicating accurate, constructive […]
TLC From the TLC
This week’s teaching resource is a collection of how-to videos for everything from creating voiceovers for lecture notes to getting the most out of personal websites. The University’s Lynda.com is chock-full of digital resources for teaching, with videos ranging from a few minutes to several hours, and is available from the Go Media single sign-in […]
TLC From the TLC
This week’s teaching resource is a brief video featuring Pamela Potter, nursing, sharing several specific strategies she employs in her online and hybrid courses for creating a sense of community among students and using basic multimedia tools accessible to all faculty to move beyond information in the textbook. Support for all the ideas she offers […]