Our Course Design Institute (CDI) is a structured sequence of workshops, activities, and working sessions held over a 3-day period (12 hours overall) where a small cohort of instructors—generally between six and fourteen participants—are immersed in backward design approaches for … Read more
Faculty, are you interested in doing research on your teaching (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, SoTL)? Join in the growth of SoTL at UNC and connect with other likeminded instructors who wish to inform their teaching through original research using … Read more
Building on the reflection of participants who have accessed course data through the My Course Analytics Dashboard, workshop leaders will help faculty members consider instructional techniques that can be used to help make courses more inclusive. Representatives from several campus … Read more
This workshop is designed for faculty who want to learn how to design a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) research project. Facilitators will guide participants through the steps of developing a research question, choosing a research design, identifying what data or … Read more
Have you included any writing assignments for students in your class? How do you plan to grade their work, and how long will it take? While most students are familiar with rubrics, they encounter a wide variety across courses. Instructors … Read more
Co-sponsored by the Carolina Center for Public Service, the Center for Faculty Excellence, and the Office of Human Research Ethics A core part of UNC-CH’s “Of the Public, for the Public” strategy in the Blueprint for Next is conducting research … Read more
In this workshop, faculty will become familiar with, select, and customize methods for their class (large or small) that will allow students to: Collaborate in small pairs or groups Present material to others Write more using activities that are low-stakes … Read more
In this workshop, faculty will become familiar with, select, and customize methods for their class (large or small) that will allow students to: Collaborate in small pairs or groups Present material to others Write more using activities that are low-stakes … Read more
Curious about students’ impressions of your course and their interactions with you? Open to making feedback-informed changes to your teaching in order to enhance student learning for the rest of the semester? All participants will be provided with sample mid-semester … Read more
