towards a (virtual) teaching and learning center/resource

This page attempts to summarize/consolidate internal and external information about teaching and learning in order to support Wesleyan faculty in their efforts to implement curricular renewal in particular and to adapt teaching at Wesleyan to meet the needs of 21st. century students. (Much of this page is taken from the earlier curricular renewal website ).

events 

talks, workshops, conferences, and other events on and off campus having to do with teaching and learning. 

readings/library

articles, books, videos, websites, mailing lists

advice from peers

how do  (Wesleyan) faculty approach particular pedagogical challenges ?

key service points

where to go on campus for help with teaching

money

internal and external grant opportunities

linkages

how does this initiative relate to other initiatives on campus?  

 

events

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on-campus events
* atr
* talks
* workshops
* brown-bag lunches around teaching

off-campus events

* conferences
* workshops

 

readings/library:

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  links to useful readings culled from other teaching and learning centers including video (either streamed over network or available via reserve desk). This is an unedited set of links to other schools' teaching and learning centers. This list will be useful a) for linking to good things and b) for learning how others organize this activity. 

 

advice from peers

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teaching stories: (an application that Steve Horst and I cooked up a couple of years ago)
links to teaching strategies (e.g. practical advice) for common teaching/learning objectives from both on-campus and off-campus

 

teaching ( and technology) network
* teaching and technology pages from ACS
* links to self-selected faculty who are willing to share their experiences with using particular technologies (e.g. blackboard, webboard, powerpoint)

Idea: what if we funded lunches where people who participate in the network can, if approached, take the interested faculty member out for lunch/coffee.

 

key service points

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A directory of the main offices that can provide support for teaching, including:

* library
* scientific support services
* davison art center
* language resource center
* cfa a.v.
* academic computing services
* writing center
* instructional media services

 

 

money

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  * internal grants

- webtechs
- fund for innovation
- project grants, etc.


* external grants

 

linkages to other wesleyan intitiatives

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key capabilites

* defined
* courses that have those categorizations
* strategies for incorporating these capablities (specific activities)

learning objects

curricular renewal

 

 

 

 

 

survey to collect more urls

draft of an outline for a guide to teaching at wesleyan

 

 

 

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