by Mendi Benigni | Jul 1, 2019 | Collaboration, Pedagogy
The Professional Learning Club (PLC) applications are now open and will close on July 15th so APPLY TODAY! A Professional Learning Club is a group of faculty that meets to collaboratively reflect on and improve their teaching practices. These learning clubs will...
by Mendi Benigni | Jun 6, 2019 | Collaboration, Innovative Instruction, Pedagogy
Do you teach in a large, fixed-seating classroom and think you can’t do group work successfully? Well think again! Team-based Learning, or TBL, is a teaching strategy that is an “evidence based collaborative learning … strategy designed around units...
by Mendi Benigni | Mar 14, 2019 | Assessment, Collaboration, Mobile
Scavenger hunts are a great way to get your students working together for a common goal. This is a wonderful way for them to bond as a class or to gel as a group project team. These types of hunts can be used for assessment as well but I want to focus mainly on...
by Chris Meshanko | Jan 16, 2019 | Career, Collaboration, Faculty Focus, Productivity, TLT HD
This post was written and submitted by the Office of Research and Grants Administration. If your office or department would like us to share updates, information, and/or resources with faculty, as part of our new holistic development focus, please contact Chris...
by Mendi Benigni | Jan 7, 2019 | Collaboration, discussion, Video
FlipGrid is a video discussion platform that allows the professor or teacher to create a topic and the students to respond to that topic via video. It can be used to: hold online discussions, practice languages or public speaking, hold online debates, create class...
by Mendi Benigni | Nov 19, 2018 | Assessment, Best Practices, Collaboration, Innovative Instruction, Pedagogy
What is Team-Based Learning? “Team-Based Learning is an evidence-based collaborative learning teaching strategy designed around units of instruction, known as “modules,” that are taught in a three-step cycle: preparation, in-class readiness assurance testing,...