Small Grant Program Featured Report: The Use of Standardized Patients in Competency Testing

The CTE is highlighting some of the final reports from our Small Grant Program, 2007-2008. The Small Grant Program supports faculty in their efforts to improve teaching; reports from the participants are due in August, at the conclusion of the grant cycle. This report comes from Dixie Bowman in the Department of Physical Therapy, School [...]

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CTE Teaching and Learning Podcast – Professional Development and Networked Learning

The participatory web has allowed groups with common interests to organize and collaborate in ways that were not possible just five years ago. In this episode, Dr. Jonathon Becker, professor of Educational Leadership in the VCU School of Education, is joined by Jeff Nugent, Bud Deihl and Britt Watwood of the VCU Center for Teaching [...]

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CTE Teaching and Learning Podcast – Assessment in a Web 2.0 Learning Environment

As faculty continue to explore ways to take advantage of the learning opportunities afforded by the participatory web, they face new challenges about how to assess student learning in a context that values collaboration and shared knowledge building. In this episode, Dr. Kathryn Murphy-Judy, professor of French in the VCU School of World Studies, is [...]

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New Media Consortium Releases 2009 Horizon Report

The New Media Consortium in collaboration with EDUCAUSE, recently released the 2009 Horizon Report. Now in its sixth consecutive year, the annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression [...]

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Featured Small Grant Reports – Sara Wilson McKay

The CTE would like to highlight some of the final reports from our Small Grant Program. The Small Grant Program supports faculty in their efforts to improve teaching; reports from the participants are due in August, at the conclusion of the grant cycle. Our first highlighted report comes from Sara Wilson McKay in the Department [...]

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CTE Teaching and Learning Podcast – New Opportunities for Academic Publishing

In this episode, Britt Watwood from the VCU Center for Teaching Excellence leads a panel discussion with Dr. Jon Becker and Dr. Terry Carter both from VCU’s School of Education, about blogging as a form of scholarship. Each panelist shares their current use of blogs in education and addresses key questions about how blogging supports [...]

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CTE Brown Bag Lunch Series (Fall 2008)

The CTE will be conducting its popular Brown Bag Lunch series again this Fall semester. These sessions provide participants with informal opportunities to discuss a wide range of topics and issues related to teaching and learning in higher education. The brown bags are held every Friday from 12 – 1pm at the CTE, which is [...]

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CTE Teaching and Learning Podcast – When Free Isn’t Free!

At the CTE, some of us have become enamored with the educational potential of some freely available software tools. We don’t think we could live without some of them, like delicious for social bookmarking, Google Reader for aggregating RSS feeds and the blogs we read, twitter for quick communication and resource sharing. We are constantly [...]

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The CTE Has Moved!

The VCU Center for Teaching Excellence has moved and is now located in Grace Harris Hall, suite 5116 Please Join us for an open house on August 18th or September 2nd…more information is available here We look forward to seeing you in our new location.

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Five New Faculty Learning Communities

Dear Colleagues, The CTE is offering five new Faculty Learning Communities to VCU faculty during the upcoming academic year — 2008-9. A Faculty Learning Community (FLC) is a cross-disciplinary group of 8 – 12 faculty members who engage in an active, collaborative, yearlong program that consists of both individual and group teaching and learning projects. [...]

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