Multicultural Teaching and Learning Fellowships
Up to six projects are supported each year through this fellowship program. Fellows receive a $2,500 grant and meet six times during the year for discussion and feedback on their projects.
For more information, visit http://www.teaching.umn.edu.
Early Career Series
Faculty members may select a semester length or two-semester experience to extend their knowledge of best practices in teaching and course design. Programming includes Lunch with a Great Teacher, Creating Great Lecture-Based Courses, and an Academic Year Faculty Learning Community.
For more information, visit http://www.teaching.umn.edu.
Mid-Career Faculty Learning Community for Women
Tenured faculty women are invited to join this community. Join us for discussions, reflection, learning, and collegiality. Our focus is to understand how the lens of gender informs our professional lives.
For more information, visit http://www.teaching.umn.edu.
This I Have Learned
This learning community invites tenured faculty to share their core beliefs and stories about teaching through discussion, short essays, and other creative venues.
For more information and to pre-register, contact Jane O'Brien at obrie093@umn.edu or 612.625.3885.
Digital Teaching Workshop, Summer 2009
Instructors develop skills and knowledge to integrate "21st Century Literacies" (e.g., media literacy, information literacy, social networking, online assessment) into teaching and learning over the course of a week-and-a-half in an intensive workshop taught in a blended format.
Register in April by contacting Cristina Lopez at clopez@umn.edu.
Faculty Survey
The Office of Information Technology's Digital Media Center (DMC) staff members, in consultation with University of Minnesota-Twin Cities constituents, have conducted an ongoing, longitudinal research project to help University faculty, staff , and administrators understand the expectations, experiences, preferences, and attitudes of University faculty members regarding digital technology. As part of this effort, the DMC has conducted a series of faculty technology surveys, with the next such survey to be delivered in spring 2009.
Reports from past surveys, along with survey instruments, are available at http://dmc.umn.edu/surveys.
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