About

Mission:

The mission of the Center for Teaching and Learning is to enhance teaching and learning by providing an environment and resources to:

• Create opportunities for faculty and staff to enhance teaching and learning skills,
• Promote cross-discipline discussion and collaboration, sustain an interactive community of faculty and staff learners,
• Encourage awareness of issues that affect both the academic community and its disciplines, and
• Help faculty and staff maintain currency in their chosen fields.

CTL People

• In Center: Luanne Fose, Joe Grimes, Patrick Kammermeyer, Tonia Malone, Laurie Tennant, and Ann Wilenius.
• CTL Associates: Walt Bremer (Associate Director), Roberta Herter, Sean Hurley, Al Liddicoat, Don Maas, Pat McQuaid, Marnie Petray, Deborah Wilhelm.
• CTL Volunteers: About 40–50 each year.

Past CTL Activities:

• Workshops and Courses (Many are filled with waiting list for some)
  • Teaching Effective Class
  • Teaching Well Workshops
  • Special Workshops (diversity, curriculum development, advising, etc.)
  • WINGED (Reading, Synthesis, and Writing) Workshops
  • Newer Faculty Fall Workshop and Learning Communities
  • Preface Program
• Newer Faculty (Orientation Workshop, Fall BBQ/Football Game, Learning Community, Breakfasts/Lunches with President, and Personal Consultation)
• One-on-one consultation with faculty members to assist them to enhance their teaching. This includes classroom visitations.
• Community Based Learning (Service Learning)
• Enhancement of teaching and learning through the use of technology.
  • Teaching/Learning with Technology Class
  • Course transformation to online/hybrid course (Two courses during the summer.)
• CSU
  • Exchanges:  The on-line journal of teaching and learning in the CSU  http://www.exchangesjournal.org/
  • Work with CSU on Academic Technology Initiatives (Member of Academic Technology Advisory Committee (ATAC)). ATAC has approved a comprehensive proposal for faculty development.
  • President of Faculty Development Council (FDC)
• Grants
• Center for Teaching and Learning Grant Program
  • Third year of program
  • Seven results from the 2005-2006 program were presented to Deans’ Council. The work done was amazing.
  • Excellent set of 13 are in progress
• CSU Faculty Grant Programs (State Faculty Support Grant, Curriculum Enhancement, Community Based Learning, and Information Competency)
• CSU Forgivable Loan Program
• Faculty groups discuss methodologies for enhancing teaching and learning. CTL is assisting these groups.
• Communication
  • World Wide Web (Faculty Page [CTL is responsible for Content];  CTL Page [CTL is responsible for Content and Design])
  • Quarterly Newsletter
  • Email  - Important Information ( In particular, an E-tip each month)
  • Flyers

Plans for 2007-2008:

• Continue with the programs of the past
• CTL will move to Honors Program area on the second floor during fall 2006
  • Greater integration with Learning Commons with the CTL moving to the second floor in the near future
  • Greater integration of faculty support efforts of ITS, Library, and CTL with Luanne Fose, Patrick Kamermeyer, and Tonia Malone to the second floor in the CTL
• Advance the appropriate Use of Technology in Teaching/Learning
• Support faculty in planning and implementing a course enhancement
• Consider the enabling a course enhancement through the use of technology
• Initiative addressing online and hybrid/blended course development
• Work with Instructional Advisory Committee on Recommendations
  • Collaboration
  • Learning Spaces
  • Faculty Development
  • Information Security
  • Instruction Technology Access for Persons with Disability and Security
  • Others as Appropriate

Enhance faculty development support for new tenure track faculty

• Adapting
• Linguistics
• Appropriate use of pedagogy and enabling the pedagogy with technology as appropriate
• More learning communities
• More aggressive consultation