Archive | March, 2009

May 2009 CTE Summer Institute on Teaching and Learning

By on March 24, 2009 in Uncategorized

We are pleased to announce the May 2009 CTE Summer Institute on Teaching and Learning is now accepting applications. This is one of two institutes offered each summer that offers a unique faculty development opportunity (Watch for information on the June Teaching and Learning with Technology Institute – coming soon). Both institutes fill up quickly [...]

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April Workshops and Brown Bag Sessions

By on March 24, 2009 in Uncategorized

The CTE is offering 15 workshops and 4 brown bag sessions during April. Workshops are an opportunity for faculty to both explore topics and share practices across disciplines. Our Friday Brown Bags provide an opportunity for a more informal conversation to take place between faculty on subjects of topical interest. Read more below about our [...]

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CTE Teaching and Learning Podcast – Using Wikis in Education

By on March 13, 2009 in Podcast

In this podcast episode, Dr. Sara Wilson-McKay, Assistant Professor of Art Education at VCU, discusses the use of wikis to support teaching and learning in her courses. As the discussion unfolds, Dr. Wilson-McKay provides some wonderful insights about how wikis worked in her classroom, and how she was able to establish an inter-institutional collaboration with [...]

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CTE Teaching and Learning Podcast – Exploring the Use of Facebook in Education

By on March 4, 2009 in EdTech, Podcast

During the course of this academic year, the members of the CTE’s Using Technology to Enhance Teaching and Learning faculty learning community have been exploring the uses of social networking in a variety of educational contexts from advising, to recruitment, to course-based uses. In this podcast episode they discuss the use of Facebook in education. [...]

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