Teaching & Learning Center

TLC Mission Statement: To facilitate the innovation, outcomes and scholarship of teaching and learning at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

WHAT'S NEW ON CAMPUS?

Opportunities for Faculty:

President's Teaching and Learning Collaborative

President’s Teaching and Learning Collaborative (PTLC), now beginning its third year and establishing its 2009 cohort of faculty investigators. Faculty researchers design, carry out and publish research on a particular aspect of learning in a specific course. Each investigator is supported by a coach, mentor, travel awards and benefits from a student research assistant. Applications are due Wednesday October 1, 2008.

Details are posted at: http://www.colorado.edu/ptsp/PTLCcall2008.html

President's Teaching Scholars

President Bruce Benson solicits nominations of University of Colorado faculty for selection of the 2009 President's Teaching Scholars. The lifetime appointment as a CU President's Teaching Scholar constitutes the University's highest recognition of excellence in and active commitment to teaching as well as active and substantial contributions to scholarly work in one's discipline or, in the case of a less senior scholar, indications of path-breaking contributions to his or her field.

For more information, go to http://www.colorado.edu/ptsp/documents/PTSPCall2009_000.pdf.

The New Look of Campus Webages

Course Management News:

Campus Subscription to The Chronicle: 

UCCS has a campus subscription to the Chronicle of Higher Education which may be accessed through a computer logged into the network or through a Library VPN.  For instructions to log into the network from home, go to the IT Helpdesk helpsheet link here: http://www.uccs.edu/~helpdesk/connectcampus.htm

Teaching with Technology discussion list

For those on campus who would like to join a discussion list about ideas and issues regarding the use of technology for teaching and learning, there is a new discussion list called teaching_tech-l. This list is an opportunity to find out how people are using technology to enhance student engagement and learning, best practices for online and face-to-face teaching, the issues regarding learning management systems, and recommendations and advice for using new technologies such as the iTunesU capabilities that we should have by next fall. teaching_tech-l is a moderated list; you may subscribe by sending me (kandrus@uccs.edu) and I will add you to the subscribers list. Please join us. 

Planning for Fall 2008

iClickers in the classroom: Try out the iClickers now so that you can order them for your class in the bookstore. Audience response devices (aka clickers) can be an effective means of engaging students, assessing the learning happening at any given moment, and giving feedback about your content delivery. Call the TLC at 262-4108 or 262-4287 and we can bring a demo setup to your course including 30 clickers and a radio-frequency receiver so that you can decide whether or not you would like to use them next fall. If you do decide to use clickers, you need to order them from the Bookstore as a requirement for your course.