The Center for Teaching and Learning

Program Content Foci

Learning Motivation

  • This area focuses on work exploring students' sense of self, motivation, persuasion, and/or persistence. Such work might include but is not limited to altering student perceptions’ of their ability to fit in and succeed, nurturing effective student collaboration, or becoming more resilient in the face of failure.

Blended/Hybrid/Online Applications

  • This area focuses on work exploring innovative uses of technology in blended/hybrid/online courses, including but not limited to:
    • Creating faculty/staff proficiency and excellence in the blended learning environment
    • Developing specific strategies for assessing how blended learning impacts course outcomes
    • Enhancing student engagement/participation
    • Supporting pedagogical models with technology
    • Exploring emerging technology

Collaborative Partnerships

  • This area focuses on work exploring collaborative partnerships (crossing disciplines, departments, programs, or communities) that have enhanced student learning.

Innovative Pedagogy

  • This area focuses on high-impact practices, group work design, facilitation strategies, integrating contemporary real-world problems/applications, and other approaches that encourage deeper student engagement with the course material, course mates, or the institution in ways that produce deeper learning and/or successful retention.