Center for Teaching Excellence
CTE strives to foster an intellectual community of instructors dedicated to improving their teaching practices and increasing student learning.
Center for Teaching Excellence Programs and Resources
Our website has a wide array of resources on such topics as effective pedagogy, inclusive teaching practices, student engagement, assessment of student learning, and the evaluation of teaching. We also encourage you to explore the opportunities for teaching-related faculty funding and the recent posters and portfolios created by KU instructors.
Programs & Initiatives
CTE offers several programs and funding opportunities for instructors interested in improving their teaching practices and course design.
Teaching Resources
Learn about effective ways to assess student learning in courses and programs.
Assessment of Student Learning
Learn about effective ways to assess student learning in courses and programs.
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Course Portfolio Gallery
Visit our gallery of course portfolios that exemplifies some of the best teaching and course redesign work accomplished by faculty members, instructional staff members, and departmental programs at KU.
Images from the 2023 Celebration of Teaching held at the Kansas Union Ballroom on May 5, 2023.
CTE News and Features
Resources for energy-challenged faculty
The pandemic has taken a heavy mental and emotional toll on faculty members and graduate teaching assistants.
How should we use AI detectors with student writing?
Turnitin walks a fine line between reliability and reality. On the one hand, it says its tool was “verified in a controlled lab environment” and renders scores with 98% confidence. On the other hand, it appears to have a margin of error of plus or minus 15 percentage points.
Shifting grading strategies to improve equity
Martha Oakley couldn’t ignore the data. The statistics about student success in her discipline were damning, and the success rates elsewhere were just as troubling.
Oakley spoke to about 40 faculty and staff members last week at a CTE-sponsored session on using mastery-based grading to make STEM…
Experiential learning helps Linguistics students preserve Native American language
In the world of linguistics, language is a treasure to be preserved and studied. And that's exactly what Phil Duncan and Allard Jongman set out to do with their independent studies class LING 496 in the Spring of 2022.