by Gina Merys, Assistant Director for Faculty & Graduate Student Development, Reinert CTTL This is the Weekly Reflection podcast from Saint Louis University’s Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning. Each week, we focus on a topic that fits with our theme for the 2012-2013 academic year, Engaging All Learners. Each reflection loosely follows the five-part… Continue reading Weekly Reflection Podcast 7: Using the Exam Review Session for Learning
What’s On Our Minds Lately: The Instructional Design Team
A Manifesto for Teaching Online Link: http://onlineteachingmanifesto.wordpress.com/ We could write a lot about this but if you’re thinking about teaching online, we suggest printing it out and pinning it someplace where you can spend some time contemplating it. Infographics in the Classroom Link: http://www.queness.com/post/9942/how-to-design-your-own-infographics Should we be requiring our students to organize their thoughts and… Continue reading What’s On Our Minds Lately: The Instructional Design Team
Weekly Reflection Podcast 6: Authentic Projects for Authentic Learning
by Gina Merys, Assistant Director for Faculty & Graduate Student Development, Reinert CTTL This is the Weekly Reflection podcast from Saint Louis University’s Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning. Each week, we focus on a topic that fits with our theme for the 2012-2013 academic year, Engaging All Learners. Each reflection loosely follows the five-part… Continue reading Weekly Reflection Podcast 6: Authentic Projects for Authentic Learning
Lecture Capture and Large Classes
by Mike Lewis, Associate Professor, Chemistry Thinking about topics for my first CTTL blog post this year, the obvious idea was to discuss my experiences with lecture capture over the past year. As most faculty probably know by now, SLU uses the lecture capture program Tegrity from McGraw Hill. This time last year, however, I think… Continue reading Lecture Capture and Large Classes
Weekly Reflection Podcast 5: The Many Faces of Participation
by Gina Merys, Assistant Director for Faculty & Graduate Student Development, Reinert CTTL This is the Weekly Reflection podcast from Saint Louis University’s Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning. Each week, we focus on a topic that fits with our theme for the 2012-2013 academic year, Engaging All Learners. Each reflection loosely follows the five-part… Continue reading Weekly Reflection Podcast 5: The Many Faces of Participation
Neil Fleming, Creator of VARK, Returns to SLU
Are you teaching if no one is learning? What does the research tell us about how people learn? How do you make the shift to learning-focused teaching activities, as opposed to coverage-focused ones? These are just a few of the questions Neil Fleming will help us to answer when he returns to SLU on Friday,… Continue reading Neil Fleming, Creator of VARK, Returns to SLU
Weekly Reflection Podcast 4: Intentional Flexibility
by Gina Merys, Assistant Director for Faculty & Graduate Student Development, Reinert CTTL This is the Weekly Reflection podcast from Saint Louis University’s Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning. Each week, we focus on a topic that fits with our theme for the 2012-2013 academic year, Engaging All Learners. Each reflection loosely follows the five-part… Continue reading Weekly Reflection Podcast 4: Intentional Flexibility
Ken Bain’s Back and This Time He Has Advice for Students
by Sandy Gambill, Instructional Designer Ken Bain, the author of the award-winning book, What the Best College Teachers Do is back with the newly released, What the Best College Students Do. Published in 2004, What The Best College Teachers Do is the product of a 15-year study of 100 teachers in a variety of settings. It has… Continue reading Ken Bain’s Back and This Time He Has Advice for Students
Weekly Reflection Podcast 3: Intercultural Competence in the Classroom
by Gina Merys, Assistant Director for Faculty & Graduate Student Development, Reinert CTTL This is the Weekly Reflection podcast from Saint Louis University’s Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning. Each week, we focus on a topic that fits with our theme for the 2012-2013 academic year, Engaging All Learners. Each reflection loosely follows the five-part… Continue reading Weekly Reflection Podcast 3: Intercultural Competence in the Classroom
15 Things to Know About the CTTL
by Dipti Subramaniam, Divya Subramaniam, and Erin Solomon, Graduate Assistants in the Reinert CTTL In honor of the 15th anniversary of the Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning (CTTL), we would like to share 15 things about the Center’s history, mission and vision, and how we enact our vision through the services and programs we… Continue reading 15 Things to Know About the CTTL
