Faculty Spotlights
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Kyle Mandli on Pairing Up Programmers for Collaborative Learning Activities
As a recipient of the Provost’s Hybrid Learning Course Redesign and Delivery award, Professor Mandli received support from the Center for Teaching and Learning to redesign his Introduction to Numerical Methods course. He used pair group work, pair programming, and open source technologies to engage his students in the course material and encourage them to learn from each other.
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Caroline Marvin on Teaching with Do-It-Yourself Video
As a recipient of the Provost’s Hybrid Learning Course Redesign and Delivery award, Professor Marvin received support from the Center for Teaching and Learning to redesign her Mind, Brain, and Behavior course. She reflects on the teaching challenges she faced and the lessons that other faculty can take away from her experience.
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Sarah Hansen on Ensuring Student Success in Large Classrooms
As a recipient of the Provost’s Hybrid Learning Course Redesign and Delivery award, Professor Sarah Hansen received support from the Center for Teaching and Learning to redesign her general chemistry laboratory course to better meet the diverse needs of her students and increase their engagement in the course.
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.
Bette Weneck on Creating Digital Exhibitions Using Archival Resources
Professor Bette Weneck and her students break history out of the archives in a digital exhibition project launched in the course she teaches, History of Education in New York City. Learn more about this project in our latest Faculty Spotlight.
Alhelí Alvarado-Diaz on Reinterpreting Core Texts through Film, Documentary, and Reportage
Students in Dr. Alhelí Alvarado-Diaz’s Contemporary Civilization course produced short video clips to connect class topics to current events through the lens of the diverse community outside the university.
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