Month: January 2010

The Birth of the Learning Studio – Lynn Long

Last term, Marlene Griffith Wrubel , Jane Holbrook and I offered a new type of workshop to instructors in the Faculty of Arts. We called it the Learning Studio in order to distinguish it from our previous workshops which had typically involved a presentation supplemented with questions and answers. The “Customizing Your Course in ACE” Learning Studio took place in the FLEX Lab where three CTE staff simultaneously facilitated three small discussion groups each focusing on a specific online learning topic. Participants were able to choose which discussion group to join and were able to move to a different group at any time. Marlene and I were excited by the dynamic learning environment that we saw evolve during the first studio. Continue reading The Birth of the Learning Studio – Lynn Long

Live from Austin, Texas — Mark Morton

I’m in Austin, Texas this week at the annual conference of the Educause Learning Initiative (ELI). Today was  a long and full day (and two more days of conference are to come) so I’ll probabaly need some time to reflect and sift the various things that I’ve learned or heard about so far. Two things, though, stand out from today. Continue reading Live from Austin, Texas — Mark Morton

CTE’s Teaching Tip Sheets

Over many years, CTE  has developed almost a hundred evidence-based “tip sheets.”  Most of these tip sheets explore different ways of enhancing one’s teaching (such as “Activities for Large Classes”); a handful of others aim to provide guidance on career-related issues (such as, “The Academic Job Interview”); and a few others offer advice to students about strategies for effective learning (such as “Building Your Note-Taking and Study Skills”). I’ve pasted an alphabetical list of our tip sheets at the end of this blog entry, but you might find it more useful to look at the list on our website, where we present them in thematic categories. Our ongoing challenge Continue reading CTE’s Teaching Tip Sheets

A commercial webinar on teaching – do we want this? – Trevor Holmes

Normally, I’d be loathe to flog a business solution to a pedagogical problem that can be solved easily in-house. However, I noticed in my email inbox (I belong to too many listservs!) a freebie from a company that specializes in higher ed “webinars” — ugly word, I know — this one has some time-saving tips about uses of regular everyday technology and higher-octane stuff. Continue reading A commercial webinar on teaching – do we want this? – Trevor Holmes