News and Features
Provost Announces 2017-2018 Hybrid Learning RFP Awardees
The Office of the Provost has announced the winners of the fourth round of the Hybrid Learning Course Redesign and Delivery Request for Proposals (RFP). Eighteen Columbia faculty have been awarded grants to support the redesign, delivery, and evaluation of their courses during the 2017-2018 academic year.
Columbia Doctoral Students Travel to Princeton for Ivy+ Teaching Development Summit
On April 28, a group of select Columbia University doctoral students were able to do something unusual: travel as a group to a peer institution to discuss teaching development and practices. The Ivy Plus Summit at Princeton University was the first inter-institutional gathering for graduate students.
CTL Lead Teaching Fellows Receive 2017 Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching
Two members of the Center for Teaching and Learning’s graduate student community, Jason Wong and Sahar Ullah, are recipients of Columbia University’s 2017 Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student.
New Online Course Innovating Instruction: Reimagining Teaching with Technology Set to Launch May 24
On May 24, 2017, Teachers College, Columbia University and the Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning will launch a new MOOC (massive open online course) Innovating Instruction: Reimagining Teaching with Technology on the edX platform. The course is free and open to all.
Self-Paced Science of Learning MOOC Launching Today on edX
Teachers College, Columbia University and the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) are relaunching The Science of Learning–What Every Teacher Should Know MOOC (massive open online course) as a self-paced course on the edX platform. The course is free and open to all.
Part Two of the Women Have Always Worked MOOC Set to Launch on May 31
On May 31, 2017, Columbia University and the Center for Women’s History at the New-York Historical Society will launch Women Have Always Worked: The U.S. Experience 1920 – 2016 – the second part of the Women Have Always Worked MOOC (massive open online course) on the edX platform. Both parts of the course are free and open to all.
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Silvia Martins on Using a Flipped Classroom Approach and Just-in-Time Teaching
As a recipient of the Provost’s Hybrid Learning Course Redesign and Delivery award, Professor Silvia Martins redesigned her introductory course to help her team of instructors incorporate active learning in post-lecture seminars.
Call for Applications: Summer Institutes for Columbia Faculty and Graduate Students
This summer, the CTL will offer three intensive institutes for faculty and one institute for graduate students to develop new teaching approaches, applications, and skills with hands-on guidance from CTL staff. Apply today!
Call for Applications for 2017-2018 Lead Teaching Fellows
The CTL is pleased to announce that applications for the 2017-18 cohort of Lead Teaching Fellows (LTFs) are being accepted now through Monday, April 10, 2017.