Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
August 5, 2021
For our SoTL Scholar Spotlight series, we checked in with French Assistant Professor Elizabeth Hall. She joined the 2020-2021 cohort and shares what she has learned in the program as well as from her project.
July 7, 2021
Engineering Ph.D. Bethany Gordon developed the Engineering Social Justice course during the Center for Teaching Excellence's Course Design Institute. The course focuses on helping students understand not only why, but how to make social justice part of their future engineering designs.
engineering.virginia.edu
July 4, 2021
After receiving a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, WTJU is developing a jazz curriculum with the help of the Center for Teaching Excellence.
dailyprogress.com
June 23, 2021
The Center for Teaching Excellence will support WTJU in creating an online jazz history curriculum aimed at high school and early college students.
current.org
May 19, 2021
A PhD Plus intern at the Center for Teaching Excellence during the 2020-21 academic year, Christina Boltsi talks about her time in the position supporting professional development programs for graduate students.
phdplus.virginia.edu
May 17, 2021
From the School of Data Science to the Department of Drama, the CTE is engaging in curriculum design work with eight different units across Grounds. We announce the next grant cohort and also speak with a 2020 recipient that is making great strides toward completing their curriculum redesign.
April 26, 2021
This report features the CTE's c3Design program as an example of blended and hybrid course models in practice.
library.educause.edu
March 25, 2021
The CTE is thrilled to welcome Kate Stephenson to our team as a CTE Faculty Fellow. She will focus her efforts on supporting our community-engaged initiatives. Kate shares some of her hopes and plans for the next year.
March 11, 2021
One of the week’s highlights will be when Randy Stoecker, a renowned sociology professor from the University of Wisconsin, gives a talk, “From the Margins to the Streets: Higher Ed Community Engagement for Justice,” that is being sponsored by UVA’s Center for Teaching Excellence, Equity Center, and Office for Academic Outreach.
news.virginia.edu
March 4, 2021
Programs like UVA Acts bring to life higher education troubles and tensions through original sketches. These performances strive to educate, entertain—and transform.
www.edsurge.com
February 23, 2021
Along with other faculty members, CTE Assistant Director for Community-Engaged Learning Initiatives Andrew Kaufman shares tips for teaching courses with elements of community engagement during the pandemic.
news.virginia.edu
February 19, 2021
In his Virginia Politics and Policy course, Batten Professor Andy Pennock asks his students to choose policy problems facing the Commonwealth that they’d like to see solved. Then, the class works together to both determine relevant readings and invite guests to speak on the issues they’ve selected. Pennock designed the class through UVA’s Center for Teaching Excellence, using a model called "open inquiry."
batten.virginia.edu
