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9/13/2011 Derek Bruff: Developing Teaching and Learning Objectives for TAR Projects, Capstone Seminar

Submitted by Kevin Atherton on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 9:26am

Are you working on a TAR project? You will not want to miss Derek Bruff's presentation on setting learning objectives for your TAR project! You can see more of Dereks's work at http://derekbruff.com/site/. Derek is the Director of the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and a senior lecturer in the Vanderbilt University Department of Mathematics. 

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Vanderbilt and Fisk Commit to Affiliate Together as Full Institutional Members of CIRTL

Submitted by cheethao.cirtl on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 4:30pm

Vanderbilt University has been an active and committed participant in the CIRTL Network since 2006.  One of Vanderbilt’s successful initiatives has been the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program, a collaboration between STEM faculty at Vanderbilt and Fisk University, a Historically Black University in Nashville.  The Bridge Program is being developed as a model for significantly broadening the participation of women and underrepresented minorities attaining the PhD in the physical sciences 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 »

CIRTLcast Video Featuring Vanderbilt's Derek Bruff

Submitted by cefisher2 on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 9:17am

We are happy to announce a new 10 minute condensed version of Derek Bruff's CIRTLcast from May, 2010. In this video Derek talks about how classroom response systems (“clickers”) are technologies that enable teachers to rapidly collect and analyze student responses to multiple-choice questions during class. These systems can be used to engage students in any size class in any discipline. Read More »

Vanderbilt University

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Program Name: CIRTL at Vanderbilt
Contact: Jean Alley, Program Administrator and Network Liaison
Biomedical Engineering - School of Engineering
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