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Mon, 10/13/2025
When Anne Kretsinger-Harries joined the KU Center for Teaching Excellence’s Course Design Institute in May 2024, she brought with her a clear goal: to help students in her COMS 232: Introduction to Rhetoric course not only understand rhetorical theory, but to apply it meaningfully in their own academic and campus lives.
Fri, 09/13/2024
Redesigning a course can be daunting for any instructor. However, for Gerri Berendzen and Alyssa Appelman of KU's William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, the Course Design Institute provided crucial guidance and support.
CTE Upcoming Events
Bloom's Sixth Blog
Don't let generative AI overwhelm you
By Doug WardI talk frequently about the need for faculty members to experiment with and adapt…
Finding our way out of a digital loop
By Doug WardThe phrase “humans in the loop" has become a cliché for the importance of overseeing…
CTE Podcasts
Crucial Conversations Podcast
Crucial Conversations in the Classroom, is a podcast series where the hosts explore strategies for creating inclusive, respectful, and productive discussions in our classrooms.
We have many podcasts available on such areas as the fundamentals of teaching, assignment design, inclusive teaching, and hybrid and online teaching.
- Using In-Class Time Effectively (Meagan Patterson, Mark Mort, Doug Ward)
- Taking an Inclusive Approach to Teaching (Meagan Patterson, Doug Ward)
- Using Backward Design in Teaching (Meagan Patterson, Doug Ward)
- Establishing Credibility in the Classroom (Prajna Dhar, Doug Ward)
- Using Scaffolding for Course and Assignment Design (Meagan Patterson, Doug Ward)
- Using Out-of-Class Time Effectively (Meagan Patterson, Kaila Colyott, Doug Ward)
- Group Work In Person and Online (Carl Luchies, Susan Marshall, Emma Scioli)
- Assessing Understanding (Meagan Patterson, Kaila Colyott, Doug Ward)
Other topics
- Navigating the New Student Dashboard (Joshua Potter, Caroline Bennett, Corinne Bannon and Doug Ward)
- Teaching in STEM (Prajna Dhar and Doug Ward)
- Multiple Challenges, Multiple Formats: Ways for Instructors of In-person and Hybrid Courses to Engage Students All Semester (Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, Amy Leyerzapf and Doug Ward)
- Learning Online (Carmen Orth-Alfie and Doug Ward)
- Hands-on Teaching Online (Shannon Criss, Jennifer Delgado, Laura Kirk, Mark Mort)
- Creative Engagement for Flexible and Online Teaching (Lauri Herrman-Ginsberg, Megan Greene, Sean Seyer)
- Creating and Using Authentic Assignments (Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, Carol Holstead, Meagan Patterson)
- Group Work: In person and Online (Carl Luchies, Susan Marshall, Emma Scioli)
- Understanding and Appreciating Difference (Jody Brook, Ward Lyles, Hannah Oliha-Donaldson)
- Taking an Inclusive Approach to Teaching (Meagan Patterson, Doug Ward)
Photos from the 2024 Celebration of Teaching hosted by CTE on May 3, 2024, at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Images from the KU CTE Annual Teaching Summit held Aug. 17 in Budig and Wescoe Hall. Peter Felten of Elon University delivered a keynote address. Over 30 breakout sessions were held after the keynote.
CTE Annual Report
CTE Annual Report
KU Center for Teaching Excellence annual reports.
