Center for Teaching & Learning

This workshop presents an overview of Transparency in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (TILT), an award-winning, scholarly project focused on improving students’ learning experiences. Evidence from a national study shows that when faculty implement small changes to enhance transparency to the design of even just two assignments, there are statistically significant benefits for all students and even larger gains for first-generation students, low-income students, and students of color (Winkelmes et al., 2016).

Do you want to spend less time worrying about grades and more time interacting with students about what they're learning? Would you like to be more confident that your students meet the learning objectives?   Join us for this discussion of ways alternatives to traditional grading can promote better quality student work, offer more equitable opportunities for student success, promote realistic student goal-setting, and reduce stress for students and instructors alike. 

January 11 & 13 

This two-part workshop supports instructors in selecting and implementing strategies for teaching writing online (synchronously or asynchronously) and lays the foundation for exploring what online writing instruction looks like. We'll overview strategies for learning and teaching writing, focusing on structures for communicating expectations; options for giving meaningful, sustainable feedback; and possible strategies for synchronous and asynchronous writing and peer-review activities.   

This 45-minute workshop is recommended for Chairs, academic program Directors, Associate Deans, faculty and others who are looking for new and innovative ways to use data for regular program evaluation, revision, and assessment. We will talk about OIR dashboards, academic analytics, and adjusted graduation rates, and most importantly how to (and not to) use this information to consider changes at the programmatic level.

Our policies on issues such as attendance, participation, late work, and exam proctoring may not apply as usual during a pandemic; many of us have had to adapt our well-developed policies for this new context, or create new policies. In this workshop, we will discuss some of the thornier classroom policy decisions that we are facing in our pandemic teaching.

In this workshop, we'll explore strategies for designing group projects that create an engaging and successful learning experience for students, particularly during a pandemic. Participants can bring their draft plans or teaching materials so that we can workshop teaching materials in the latter part of the workshop.

This workshop introduces the interactive syllabus, a way of presenting your syllabus through a simple survey. This creates opportunities for students to interact with you and the syllabus--and perhaps even contribute to the syllabus. We'll explore several options, both thematically and technologically, for using an interactive syllabus, including starting from a template to reduce your workload.

This session will provide you an overview of the PI Portal PeopleSoft functionality for grant management. Participants will learn how to: Locate the PI Portal Use the PI Portal search function Navigate, extract expenditure, personnel, budget, and other types of data from the PI Portal This session is facilitated by Lana Metayer, Team Lead, Sponsored […]

This session will provide tips and guidance on how avoid mistakes, oversights, and pitfalls when creating a IRB/IACUC and IBC Protocols. Facilitated by Melanie Locher, Assistant Director Research Protections Office; Aubrie Clas, Assistant Director, Research Protections Office

The sheer amount of information we confront daily makes the act of evaluating and verifying information a crucial academic and community skill. This workshop will explore four moves developed in Mike Caulfield’s Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers, an “instruction manual to reading on the modern internet,” is an “unabashedly practical guide for the student fact-checker.”

Flipgrid, a video-based, asynchronous discussion tool, is available for free as part of UVM’s Microsoft Office 365 suite. Instructors set up prompts and parameters for student videos (including length limits of 15sec to 10min). Students respond to the prompts and to their classmates with their own original video recordings. In this workshop, you’ll see a demonstration of Flipgrid’s functionality, learn how faculty set up Flipgrid, and try out participating in a Flipgrid discussion. The goal of the workshop is to have participants experience Flipgrid while also considering effective ways to incorporate this flexible tool into classes to support student learning and engagement.