Center for Teaching Excellence
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Course Transformation Grants

Proposals are invited for CTE grants to support faculty Course Transformation efforts for Spring/Summer 2020. These grants are offered as a part of KU’s course transformation initiative, to support greater use of student-centered, inclusive, evidence-based teaching practices in KU courses. See CFP document below for specific guidelines. 

Priority will be given to proposals submitted by Monday, February 24, 2020. Proposals may be submitted after this time but consideration will depend on availability of additional funds. 

Course Transformation grants, call for proposals, Spring/Summer 2020.

Please upload a brief proposal (with your name, department, and short abstract/summary of your project; total description should be no more than two pages, including a detailed budget). We accept the following file formats: .doc, .docx, .pdf, .jpg, .png, .gif, or .txt.
Files must be less than 2 MB.
Allowed file types: gif jpg jpeg png txt pdf doc docx.
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GTA Flex and Online Teaching Program

GTAs: The link to the application form for the GTA Flex and Online Teaching Program is now available. It can be accessed here. 

Events
Flex Teaching

CTE has created a website for helping faculty create flexible courses that can shift between in-person and online. Visit the Flex Teaching site.

Bloom's Sixth, the CTE blog

40 days (and 40 nights?) of teaching in confinement: A diary

Making iPad videos, using VoiceThread, and living a life of non sequiturs

A place for community during isolation from campus

Helping students find their way through a fog of uncertainty online

To give your online class a bit of campus feel, add a virtual whistle

News & Notes

KU Physics Department faculty design an introductory, calculus-based physics course that uses an "energy-first curriculum" to improve student learning. 

Carol Holstead, Journalism & Mass Communications, shares strategies for improving teaching, starting with a back-to-the-basics approach for names, emails, feedback, and office hours. 

Tony Rosenthal, History, discusses the use of new teaching methodologies in a urban history course in his article, "Sin Cities: From History to Sociology to Urban History, an Interdisciplinary Journey".

Harvard University scholars focus on "Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom".

The American Sociological Association calls for reconsideration of student teaching evaluations. Click here for official statement. 

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