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Network Exchanges abounding

Submitted by alleyjm on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 2:35pm

Bethany Wilcox, from Colorado-Boulder has been on campus today for a Network Exchange. This is the first time Vanderbilt has hosted an exchange student and we are very pleased with the progress so far. Bethany did her disciplinary talk at lunch time today.  While the crowd wasn't huge, the people there were very interested in what she had to say and asked lots of questions.  This provoked some interesting discussions.  We're looking forward to her TAR talk this afternoon.

Vanderbilt TAR Presentations and Seminar

Submitted by alleyjm on Fri, 04/08/2011 - 9:54am

CIRTL Teaching-as-Research Fellows at Vanderbilt University will be presenting their work via poster presentations on Tuesday, April 12.  In conjunction with their presentations, Karl Smith, Professor of Cooperative Learning in Engineering Education at Purdue University, will be giving a seminar on Engineering Education Research and Innovation.  This will be followed by a reception and discussion time.  While he is here, Karl will be having round table discussions with three gr Read More »

Leveraging Diversity: the Wisdom of Crowds in University Teaching

Submitted by alleyjm on Wed, 02/23/2011 - 2:21pm

In the workshop, Derek started by having us experience the wisdom in crowds.  We each had to guess at the number of jelly beans in a jar.  Then after turning in our guesses, the group arrived at a guess.  One person was right on the money, but otherwise the group answer was the close.  This showed how discussion and many voices can bring about better results.  Then Derek showed a number of resources that could be used to crowdsource and offered ideas of how these might be used in a class, whether in the room or off-line.  I think there are some erally exciting Read More »

Leveraging Diversity: the Wisdom of Crowds in University Teaching

Submitted by alleyjm on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 3:52pm

Derek Bruff will be facilitating a diversity workshop here at Vanderbilt on Feb. 22.  This workshop is co-hosted by the CFT and CIRTL. Derek will be  using some unusual books as the jumping off point for the discussions.  We hope this is the first of a series of these diversity-based workshops.

For more information on the workshop: http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/events/teaching-workshops/#leveraging_diversity

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