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We envision a university community where scholarly teaching leads to transformative learning. Our mission is to serve the university community through a commitment to exceptional teaching and learning.

Preparing Future Faculty Retreat

The Preparing Future Faculty Retreat gives graduate students and post-docs an overview of Preparing Future Faculty classes. While a session on interactive teaching touches on the issues raised in GRAD 8101, participants get a preview of GRAD 8102 with a workshop on preparing for the academic job search and a panel of faculty members from neighboring colleges and universities. The retreat is held in mid-January and mid-May.

May 21, 12 noon - 4:30 p.m. More Information can be found here.

Early Career Teaching Program Alum, Connie Lu, Receives National Science Foundation Award

Professor Connie Lu, alumna of the Center's 2010-2011 Early Career Teaching Program, has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. The CAREER program is NSF’s most prestigious award for junior faculty members.

Professor Dona Schwartz, alumna of Center's 2006-2007 Mid-Career Teaching Program, has received a 2013 Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota States Arts Board.

Teaching Tips

May is MOOC Month (and so is June)

During the coming weeks, our blog posts will focus on MOOCs--the who, what, why, when, where and how of MOOCs within the higher education landscape generally and here at the U. We open with thinking about guiding metaphors for learning/learners, then move on to the U’s Coursera MOOCs, and wrap with a sequences of posts breaking down the words and ways of MOOCing.

Visit our TILT blog to read more about it.

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