Teaching and Learning
Supporting Your Pedagogy with Zoom Breakout Rooms
In this workshop, we will explore ways to support your pedagogical strategies using the current features of Zoom breakout rooms. By the end of this session, you will be able to: Configure your profile and meeting settings for Zoom to … Read more
Conversations on Teaching
Carolina faculty are finding creative solutions to engage students and teach well in remote teaching environments. Join any or all of these informal sessions to ask questions, share ideas, and compare notes with faculty colleagues and instructional support staff. Restricted … Read more
Introduction to Teaching with Panopto
This session will serve as a basic introduction to Panpoto, the University’s new video management platform, and how it can be used to support instructional goals. Among the topics covered will include using Panopto to share recorded class Zoom sessions … Read more
Supporting Your Pedagogy with Zoom Breakout Rooms
In this workshop, we will explore ways to support your pedagogical strategies using the current features of Zoom breakout rooms. By the end of this session, you will be able to: Configure your profile and meeting settings for Zoom to … Read more
Conversations on Teaching
Carolina faculty are finding creative solutions to engage students and teach well in remote teaching environments. Join any or all of these informal sessions to ask questions, share ideas, and compare notes with faculty colleagues and instructional support staff. Restricted … Read more
Conversations on Teaching
Carolina faculty are finding creative solutions to engage students and teach well in remote teaching environments. Join any or all of these informal sessions to ask questions, share ideas, and compare notes with faculty colleagues and instructional support staff. Restricted … Read more
Conversations on Teaching
Carolina faculty are finding creative solutions to engage students and teach well in remote teaching environments. Join any or all of these informal sessions to ask questions, share ideas, and compare notes with faculty colleagues and instructional support staff. Restricted … Read more
Conversations on Teaching
Carolina faculty are finding creative solutions to engage students and teach well in remote teaching environments. Join any or all of these informal sessions to ask questions, share ideas, and compare notes with faculty colleagues and instructional support staff. Restricted … Read more
Think-Pair-Share: Effective Implementation Techniques
From the Carolina Teaching and Learning Colloquium (CTLC) Series Think-pair-share is a powerful engagement strategy that combines questions posed by an instructor with simultaneous, whole-class, student-to-student discussions. For many instructors, this is the first active learning technique they adopt. In … Read more
Conversations on Teaching
Join other faculty and instructional support staff to ask questions, share ideas, or compare notes on teaching. Faculty will be sharing ideas on how to wrap up the term and handle final exams/grading.
Conversations on Teaching
Join other faculty and instructional support staff to ask questions, share ideas, or compare notes on teaching. Faculty will be sharing ideas on how to wrap up the term and handle final exams/grading.
Faculty Showcase on Teaching
We’re excited to announce that the CFE Faculty Showcase on Teaching will return this April in a virtual format! This year’s Showcase on Teaching will be held across two days, giving you the chance to attend even more sessions as … Read more
Conversations on Teaching
Join other faculty and instructional support staff to ask questions, share ideas, or compare notes on teaching. Faculty will be sharing ideas on how to wrap up the term and handle final exams/grading.
Summer Writing Group Special Topic: Developing a Habit of Writing
The Summer Writing Group (SWG) presents a Special Topic workshop. We’ve all heard that the key to successful writing is to develop a habit of it. This means engaging with writing through a routine that is practiced regularly. In this workshop, … Read more
Closing Up the Semester Successfully: Archiving Course Materials and Course Memories
From the UNC System Digital Learning Community's Lunch and Learn Series Associate Faculty Fellows will talk about some best practices for the practical problem of maintaining our course records and materials, as well as a few tips for recording our … Read more
Summer Writing Group Special Topic: Writing With and Writing As an International Scholar
The Summer Writing Group (SWG) presents a Special Topic workshop. Are you collaborating with international scholars? Are you writing in English as an additional language? Join Writing Center Director, Kim Abels, and Senior English Language Specialist, Gigi Taylor, for this conversation about … Read more
Getting Started with Digital Accessibility Conference
The NC Higher Ed Digital Accessibility Collaborative announces their inaugural Getting Started with Digital Accessibility Conference. This conference is a free, online professional development opportunity to learn about digital accessibility. It is open to everyone in higher education in North Carolina. Digital accessibility is … Read more
June 2021 Course Design Institute
ZoomEach of our Course Design Institutes (CDI) is a structured sequence of workshops, activities, and working sessions held over a 3-day period (12 contact hours overall), where a small cohort of instructors—generally between six and sixteen colleagues—use the “backward design” … Read more
Think Research Impact Before Publication: Tips and Tools
Bring your laptops and abstracts/topics for this practical and impactful Summer Writing Group Special Topics Session, where we partner with Jamie Conklin and Anne Gilliland from UNC Libraries to help you navigate the many decisions you must make around publishing … Read more
Zoom A11y Workshop
ZoomThe Digital Accessibility Office is excited to add Zoom Accessibility to its growing list of educational resources. This training will focus on best practices for assigning multiple spotlights, enabling captions, designing polls, and other feature considerations when hosting an inclusive … Read more
July 2021 Course Design Institute
Each of our Course Design Institutes (CDI) is a structured sequence of workshops, activities, and working sessions held over a 3-day period (12 contact hours overall), where a small cohort of instructors—generally between six and sixteen colleagues—use the “backward design” … Read more
Conversations on Teaching
Join other UNC instructors and CFE consultants via Zoom to ask questions, compare approaches, share successes, brainstorm alternatives, or otherwise learn from others' teaching experiences.
Conversations on Teaching
Join other UNC instructors and CFE consultants via Zoom to ask questions, compare approaches, share successes, brainstorm alternatives, or otherwise learn from others' teaching experiences.
Conversations on Teaching
Join other UNC instructors and CFE consultants via Zoom to ask questions, compare approaches, share successes, brainstorm alternatives, or otherwise learn from others' teaching experiences.
Conversations on Teaching
Join other UNC instructors and CFE consultants via Zoom to ask questions, compare approaches, share successes, brainstorm alternatives, or otherwise learn from others' teaching experiences.
Conversations on Teaching
Join other UNC instructors and CFE consultants via Zoom to ask questions, compare approaches, share successes, brainstorm alternatives, or otherwise learn from others' teaching experiences.
Conversations on Teaching
Join other UNC instructors and CFE consultants via Zoom to ask questions, compare approaches, share successes, brainstorm alternatives, or otherwise learn from others' teaching experiences.
Conversations on Teaching
Conversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Conversations on Teaching
Zoom NC, United StatesConversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
In-Person Classes: Including Students Who Cannot Attend
Join us to learn more about your options for providing students who miss class time with a rich learning experience. The session will include an overview of how to create, edit, and share class recordings.
Conversations on Teaching
Conversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Conversations on Teaching
Conversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Conversations on Teaching
Zoom NC, United StatesConversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Conversations on Teaching
Conversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Inviting Student Feedback During Your Course
As instructors, we can learn a great deal about our teaching from students' reflections on their experiences in the learning environments we've designed. This interactive workshop focuses on helping you differentiate between formative and summative questions for soliciting student feedback … Read more
Conversations on Teaching
Zoom NC, United StatesConversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Conversations on Teaching
Conversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Equity in Teaching Institute
ZoomDuring the two-day Equity in Teaching Institute, participants reflect on who our students are, how our courses can equitably meet our students’ needs, and what equity in teaching means to us. We center the needs of students marginalized because of … Read more
Conversations on Teaching
Conversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Equity in Teaching Institute
During the two-day Equity in Teaching Institute, participants reflect on who our students are, how our courses can equitably meet our students’ needs, and what equity in teaching means to us. We center the needs of students marginalized because of … Read more
Equity in Teaching Institute
ZoomDuring the two-day Equity in Teaching Institute, participants reflect on who our students are, how our courses can equitably meet our students’ needs, and what equity in teaching means to us. We center the needs of students marginalized because of … Read more
Conversations on Teaching
Zoom NC, United StatesConversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Equity in Teaching Institute
ZoomDuring the two-day Equity in Teaching Institute, participants reflect on who our students are, how our courses can equitably meet our students’ needs, and what equity in teaching means to us. We center the needs of students marginalized because of … Read more
Conversations on Teaching
Zoom NC, United StatesConversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Conversations on Teaching
Zoom NC, United StatesConversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Conversations on Teaching
Conversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Conversations on Teaching
Conversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Teaching With Higher-Order Prompts
Developing good prompts for discussion, assignments, and exams can help push students to think critically and achieve higher-order learning objectives. This workshop will explore the characteristics of higher-order prompts and how to use them throughout your courses. Learning Objectives: Practice … Read more
Conversations on Teaching
Zoom NC, United StatesConversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Creating an Inclusive Syllabus
The syllabus is often the first point of contact between your students and your course. How can you ensure that this important document is inviting, not discouraging? In this session, we’ll review strategies to make your syllabus more welcoming, transparent, … Read more
Conversations on Teaching
Zoom NC, United StatesConversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Strategies for Making Large Classes Feel Smaller
ZoomLarge enrollment courses are among the most challenging to teach. During this session, we’ll share ideas for creating engaging, inclusive, and scalable learning environments, regardless of your class size. In the midst of the University’s transition back to in-person instruction, … Read more
Conversations on Teaching
Conversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Conversations on Teaching
Conversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Conversations on Teaching
Conversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Conversations on Teaching
Zoom NC, United StatesConversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Conversations on Teaching
Conversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Conversations on Teaching
Conversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Conversations on Teaching
Conversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Carolina Teaching & Learning Colloquium: Teaching Students to Teach Themselves
ZoomWhen children start school, it is completely up to the teacher to see to it that students learn. But as they grow older, they become increasingly responsible for their own learning. They must learn how to read complicated texts independently, … Read more
Conversations on Teaching
Zoom NC, United StatesConversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Conversations on Teaching
Conversations on Teaching sessions are loosely-structured, educator-driven, and solution-focused opportunities to help you persevere in your teaching throughout the semester. Come for a refreshing dialogue with other UNC-CH instructors, CFE consultants, and a rotating cast of invited guest contributors to learn from others' teaching experiences via Zoom.
Course Design Institute (CDI)
Each CFE Course Design Institute (CDI) is a structured sequence of workshops, activities, and working sessions held over a 3-day period with a 6- to 12-member cohort of UNC instructors. Together, we use backward design approaches to develop upcoming courses … Read more
Course Design Institute (CDI)
Zoom / Microsoft TeamsEach CFE Course Design Institute (CDI) is a structured sequence of workshops, activities, and working sessions held over a 3-day period with a 6- to 12-member cohort of UNC instructors. Together, we use backward design approaches to develop upcoming courses … Read more
Course Design Institute (CDI)
Each CFE Course Design Institute (CDI) is a structured sequence of workshops, activities, and working sessions held over a 3-day period with a 6- to 12-member cohort of UNC instructors. Together, we use backward design approaches to develop upcoming courses … Read more
Creating an Inclusive Syllabus
The syllabus is often the first point of contact between your students and your course. How can you ensure that this important document is inviting, not discouraging? In this session, we’ll review strategies to make your syllabus more welcoming, transparent, … Read more
Overcoming the Tyranny of Content
This workshop introduces participants to a recent publication from Life Sciences Education and offers practical strategies for shifting away from a content-coverage model of course design in favor of devoting more class time to active learning. Learning objectives: Leverage evidence … Read more
Getting Started with Poll Everywhere
ZoomClass polling is a popular student engagement tool used to seed discussion, promote applied thinking, and assess student understanding of course concepts. In this introductory workshop, participants will learn about strategies for developing effective poll assignments and will be introduced … Read more
Beyond Think-Pair-Share: 10 Strategies for In-Class Small Groups
In-class small group work can engage students with one another and course materials to enhance higher-order thinking, mastery of course concepts, diverse views, and deeper learning. Research shows that small-group learning improves academic achievement, relationships between classmates and faculty, and … Read more
Carolina Teaching and Learning Colloquium Series
Join us on February 4 as Dr. Jennifer Friberg, Illinois State University, presents "Using Guided Notes to Scaffold Student Learning." Guided notes help increase content knowledge, encourage higher-level thinking, or increase student engagement. Registration is free but required. … Read more
Partners for Equity in Teaching: Academic Support Program for Student Athletes
The Academic Support Program for Student-Athletes serves and supports the academic needs of UNC student-athletes throughout their collegiate experience. Join us to hear from Assistant Provost and ASPSA Director Dr. Michelle Brown about how faculty can help student-athletes thrive in … Read more