Workshops

Fall 2023

Interactive Learning and Lecturing: A Purposeful Method for Student Engagement

Description: Interactive lecturing creates opportunities for increased student interaction and participation during small and large lecture-based classes. This workshop will focus on how to incorporate strategies designed to enhance and accentuate lecture, to create an interactive classroom experience and encourage active, rather than passive learning.

Date/Time: Tuesday, September 12, 9:00 - 11:30 a.m. (Zoom)

To register for the online session, click HERE.

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 13, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. (in-person)

Location: Meeting Room D, Graduate Life Center (GLC)

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Designing Class Projects with Global Connections: An Introduction to Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)

Description: Join us to learn about creating and implementing course projects with a focus on global learning in your on-campus or online course. Workshop facilitators from the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), the Global Education Office (GEO), and Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies (TLOS) will discuss designing course projects that create connections and partnerships with faculty and students from institutions around the globe through using Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). The facilitators will share foundational information about COIL and strategies for implementing it in your course as well as highlight examples of effective COIL projects at Virginia Tech. In addition, the session will highlight potential partners so that participants may begin the partner-matching process to identify global collaborators for COIL projects. Our goal is for attendees to leave the workshop with new knowledge about COIL as well as a draft design plan for a COIL project for one of their courses.

Date/Time: Monday, October 2, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Location: 207A Newman Library

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Developing Assessment and Grading Strategies to Promote Student Learning

Description: Faculty will learn best practices and how to develop both formative and summative assessments, explore best practices in grading, and examine several techniques to gauge student learning. Faculty will have time and support to design or redesign current assessments.

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 4, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. (in-person)

Location: Meeting Room B, Graduate Life Center (GLC)

To register for the in-person session, click HERE.

Date/Time: Thursday, October 5, 1:00 - 3:30 p.m. (Zoom)

To register for the online session, click HERE.

How People Learn

Description: Some learning myths such as “we only use 10% of our brain” are stubbornly persistent. Join us as we examine how people learn and discuss strategies to increase the level of student learning in your courses.

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 11, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (Zoom)

To register for the online session, click HERE.

Date/Time: Thursday, October 12, 2:00 - 4:00 (in-person)

Location: Meeting Room B, Graduate Life Center (GLC)

To register for the in-person, click HERE.

Facilitating Learning with Effective Groups/Teams

Description: This session is designed to provide an introduction to incorporating teams/groups into teaching contexts to promote and facilitate learning. Topics addressed in this workshop will include why teams/groups are often used to facilitate learning, common ways in which teams/groups are incorporated into learning contexts, and strategies for effectively developing and implementing group/team-based learning experiences (e.g., activity/assignment design and assessment, group/team formation, supporting positive/product groups/teams in learning). By the end of this session, participants will be introduced to a variety of strategies for effectively incorporating groups/teams in learning experiences that they are facilitating currently or designing/redesigning in the future.