UCITE
March 21, 2016
The ability to understand and analyze scholarly texts and journal articles is a critical skill for students to obtain. However, many students have difficulty reading and understanding this material.
At the next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education event, Dianne Kube, lecturer ...
March 15, 2016
The ConnectϳԹ task force was created as part of the initiatives within the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Suicide Prevention Grant that was awarded to the Division of Student Affairs last summer.
The task force, which meets quarterly to evaluate and update suicide-preve...
February 22, 2016
The next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) session will cover Case Inquiry (IQ), which is a small-group learning method that is adapted from the “new” Problem Based Learning (PBL) approach introduced at McMaster University School of Medicine in 2005. IQ is the corner...
February 16, 2016
Halfway into the semester is a good time to take stock of how your course is going. First of all, you've had enough time to get a sense of what your students are like, and they've gotten a sense of you. But more importantly, it still leaves you with time to make the kinds of crucial course correctio...
February 10, 2016
The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) invites faculty members to nominate fellow faculty members for the Glennan Fellowship for the 2016-2017 year.
The Glennan Fellows are perceived as role models for new faculty at ϳԹ and the program is...
February 09, 2016
With the increased emphasis in college on writing essays, papers and reports, the possibility of plagiarism raises its ugly head. No teacher likes to think their students plagiarize, but the reality is that for a variety of reasons, some students may be tempted to do so.
The next University Center ...
February 02, 2016
Recent classes of undergraduate students have been unprecedentedly large, a trend expected to continue. Due to this increase in students, class sizes will be larger than they were in the past.
Faculty can counter some of the major negative factors of large classes, such as the sense of anonymity an...
January 26, 2016
The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education will hold a session with the four most recent Carl F. Wittke Award winners, who will share some of the ideas they put into action in their classrooms.
The guest hosts will be:
Katia Almeida, instructor of anthropology;
Rebecca Benard...
January 20, 2016
Representatives from Information Technology Services’ Teaching and Learning Technologies group will present on the university’s learning management system evaluation program at the next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) event. Faculty involved in an evaluation of Bla...
December 11, 2015
Much of Mano Singham’s time at ϳԹ has been spent teaching teachers. That, combined with his work as a physics instructor, means he's had an impact—either directly or indirectly—on the lives of countless students over the years.
Now, after more than a quarter-century on ...