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The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) Expands to Twenty-Five Research Institutions

Submitted by velez on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 11:01am

The CIRTL Network is continuing to evolve as it approaches its tenth year. Established as an NSF Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT) in 2003, CIRTL has worked to create a comprehensive network of higher education institutions collaborating to prepare the future STEM faculty. This fall the CIRTL Network welcomes 19 new member institutions for a total of 25. Read More »

Coffee Hour: How do you find funding to support your love of teaching?

Submitted by RobinGreenler on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 2:33pm

As a graduate student Ali Locher, along with two other STEM grad students, wrote a successful grant to further their teaching-as –research work. How was a graduate student able to secure federal funding for an education project and why did she do it? What did her advisor, Rique Campa think about her taking the time to do this? In last week’s CIRTL Coffee Hour, Both Locher and Campa were on hand to tell the story. Read More »

Reflections from my CIRTL Exchange

Submitted by roberall on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 9:53am

Today's Coffee Hour

Submitted by herbert2 on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 10:58am

 Good Morning Everyone! 

This is just a friendly reminder about today's CIRTL Coffee Hour on Finding Funding to Support your Love of Teaching. This Coffee Hour will be facilitated by Ali Felix-Locher from Grand Valley State University and Rique Campa from Michigan State University.  Read More »

Job Opening at MIT: Postdoctoral Associate in Educational Research

Submitted by velez on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 8:29am

The Teaching and Learning Laboratory (TLL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has a position available immediately for a post-doctoral associate in educational research. This person will collaborate with TLL’s Associate Director for Assessment and Evaluation on the design and implementation of multi-faceted studies related to student learning (both inside and outside the classroom); innovative pedagogies; new curricula; and/or educational technology, particularly in STEM disciplines. Read More »

In-Class Ecological Footprint Data Visualization Challenge

Submitted by derekbruff on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 11:41am

Yesterday’s Math 216 activity brought together several of my favorite teaching ideas: challenge cycles, visual thinking, and mobile learning. We’re starting our unit on descriptive statistics, which usually means finding averages and standard deviations and making boxplots and histograms. We’ll get to all that, but in an effort to create a “time for telling,” I wanted to start the unit with a data visualization challenge that was just a bit beyond what the students were ready for. Read More »

Shakespeak, a BYOD Classroom Response System

Submitted by derekbruff on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 12:00am

Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) class response systems seem to be popping up left and right these days. BYOD systems are ones in which students respond to instructor questions using some kind of mobile device (cell phone, smart phone, laptop, tablet) that they bring with them to the classroom. Read More »

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