If you would like to work with a cohort of collaborative faculty, instructional designers, and librarians to enrich, enhance, or reinvent a course, consider applying for the Extended Diversity Experience.
The Teaching Center is hosting a Teaching Partners Summer Social on Friday, June 15, 2018, from 4 – 6 p.m. on the University Club Rooftop Terrace. Join us for hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar and some special Teaching Center activities! RSVP to join in on the fun!
The Teaching Center's Academic Digital Media unit contributed to a campus-wide effort to livestream the undergraduate and graduate commencement ceremonies on Facebook in April with more than 20,000 viewing the ceremonies to date! Find both livestreams on the University of Pittsburgh’s Facebook page.
Interested in working for the University Center for Teaching and Learning? Look over the available positions at the PittSource site.
LMS Support and Consulting is featuring a series of “Creating Multimedia” workshops this spring and summer. Each workshop focuses on tips and tools to help instructors prepare course materials for their class.
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The University of Pittsburgh Testing Center hosted the 2018 meeting of the Pennsylvania Association of College Testing Administrators [PACTA] on May 17. We spent the day with testing center administrators from across Pennsylvania, sharing insights and experiences from the world…
A new faculty community has blossomed here at Pitt, one that brings together instructors from every campus, several schools and multiple disciplines. The Teaching Partners formed in October 2017 as a new faculty community that creates peer-to-peer dialogues and more…
The University of Pittsburgh renewed its participation in the National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (SARA) this month. As a SARA-participating institution, Pitt is required to adhere to a national standard for offering interstate postsecondary distance education. As a…
Last week, in my final rhetoric class of the semester, we did an end-of-term exercise that I’ve assigned for the past few years. I use notecards to write a series of prompts meant to encourage students to reflect on the…
Group work has long been a source of friction between students and instructors. At their worst, team projects force high-achieving students to compensate for those less willing to put in effort. At their best, they foster productive collaboration and idea…
A new mobile browser developed at Carnegie Mellon University offers a better search experience for people doing complex searches across multiple websites, such as those planning a vacation or exploring medical treatments. The app offers the promise of replacing the overwhelming tab…
With education technologies increasingly using analytics to measure and assess student learning, there is a lot of data flying around on higher education campuses. How are institutions establishing principles and polices around the responsible use of that data? So far,…
As greater numbers of students from underrepresented populations enroll in American colleges and universities, institutions of higher education have increasingly recognized the importance of an equally diverse faculty. Yet despite heightened awareness of issues related to diversity on college campuses,…
Adam Nemeroff, an instructional designer in Dartmouth College’s department of academic and campus technology services, admits he has “super-complicated and conflicted” thoughts about the role of technology in ensuring that digital courses and curricular materials are fully accessible to all…