The Teaching Center has developed resources to support recommendations made by the Provost’s Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence (ACIE) to improve and expand assessment of teaching. In addition to the existing library of resources on assessment of teaching and student…
Michael Arenth, director of Educational Technologies for the Teaching Center, received the 2019 University of Pittsburgh Staff Council Mentor Award. The award recognizes staff members who place immense value on the act of mentorship and exhibit a passion for fostering…
We’d like to congratulate Andrew P.K. Bentley (instructional designer), Lex Drozd (instructional designer), Max Glider (learning space services coordinator), Joy Hart (senior program coordinator), Cressida Magaro (assistant manager of Educational Software Consulting) and Team Testing (Sue Richardson, manager, and testing…
As we all continue to strive to create the very best environments for our students to live and learn, we want to encourage you to think about how your engagement with students can support their well-being during this uniquely stressful…
The 2021 Transforming the Teaching & Learning Environment virtual conference begins on Monday Feb. 1, and runs through Feb. 12. Pitt has purchased a license for all faculty to participate in this event. There will be 60 one-hour sessions delivered using…
To support faculty who may be teaching in learning spaces with the newly installed Flex@Pitt classroom technology, the Teaching Center has developed several resources: Our Zoom Rooms Introduction video provides an introduction to the technology installed in the classroom. The Zoom Rooms Technical…
As we head into the winter recess, the start of the spring semester looms on the horizon. For those of you who didn’t teach in the fall and are in the midst of planning how you will tackle the challenges…
As you plan for the spring semester and update your course syllabus, consider how you can support your students’ well-being. This spring, two Student Self-Care Days are scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 23 and Wednesday, March 24. Explicitly acknowledge these dates…
To help your students learn how to use educational technology tools and strategies they will need to succeed in hybrid and online courses, the Teaching Center has created a Canvas public course, the Online Student Toolkit. This toolkit, which should…
In the spring of 2020, we were faced with the task of quickly transitioning to emergency remote teaching. For many of us, this meant trying our best to recreate our face-to-face class structure in the remote environment by using Zoom…