Derek Bruff

@derekbruff
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Higher education consultant. Visiting associate director at the University of Mississippi Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Author of Intentional Tech from West Virginia University Press. Host of the Intentional Teaching podcast.
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I have a post on the UPCEA blog today asking if we should do more to blur the lines between faculty development for onsite courses and for online courses. There is increasing overlap between the faculty teaching in those two modalities, so why not overlap support for those faculty? https://upcea.edu/blurring-the-lines-for-faculty-development/
Blurring the Lines for Faculty Development - UPCEA

In December 2020, my staff at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching sent a survey to about 500 faculty and other instructors who had completed the

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A journal that specializes in peer-reviewed lesson plans? That's CourseSource, publishing lesson plans on a variety of biology topics that feature active and inclusive instruction. On today's podcast I talk with the CourseSource editorial team, Jenny Knight and Sharleen Flowers, about how the journal works... and why other disciplines don't have venues like this one. https://intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/14400710-peer-reviewed-teaching-resources-with-jenny-knight-and-sharleen-flowers
Peer-Reviewed Teaching Resources with Jenny Knight and Sharleen Flowers - Intentional Teaching

CourseSource is an open-access journal now entering its tenth year that has a variety of peer-reviewed teaching resources for biology, primarily detailed lesson plans tagged by course and topic for easy searching.  I found out about CourseSou...

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I'm leading a slow read of my book Intentional Tech. This week we dive into Chapter 1, all about using technology to create times for telling.

To help us, I have a new interview with Matteo Menapace, co-designer of the cooperative, climate-change-fighting game Daybreak, about game design as learning design. Intentional Teaching Patreon supporters can listen to it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/game-design-as-96993970?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Game Design as Learning Design with Matteo Menapace | Intentional Teaching

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I am very excited to have Isis Artze-Vega on the podcast this week! We talk about the value of trusting relationships in teaching and learning and ways instructors can help students cultivate a relationship-rich educational experience. Listen here: https://intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/14292897-relationship-rich-education-with-isis-artze-vega
Relationship-Rich Education with Isis Artze-Vega - Intentional Teaching

Isis Artze-Vega is college provost and vice president for academic affairs at Valencia College, a public college in Florida with over 40,000 students. Isis is also the co-author of a book on relationship-rich education, which was the topic of her ...

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I'm looking for a couple of examples of assignments that use generative AI to help students get started or move faster on multimodal projects, like using an image generator for storyboarding or text-to-voice for narration in a video or podcast.

Know of any examples along those lines?

Sad news: The UM CETL blog is going away soon.

Glad news: We're moving the blog to Substack! Check out our welcome post and all the archived posts from the old blog.

https://umcetl.substack.com/

UM Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning | Derek Bruff | Substack

The mission of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning is to promote exemplary teaching and effective learning at the University of Mississippi. This is our Substack. Click to read UM Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, by Derek Bruff, a Substack publication. Launched 5 days ago.

When it comes to assessing teaching quality, we need to do more than just rely on student evaluations of teaching.

In today's Intentional Teaching podcast, I talk with Beate Brunow and Shawn Simonson about efforts on their campuses to assess and evaluate teaching in more meaningful ways.

Listen here: https://intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/14189134-assessing-teaching-with-beate-brunow-and-shawn-simonson

Assessing Teaching with Beate Brunow and Shawn Simonson - Intentional Teaching

In today’s episode, we dig into an important question for higher ed: How can we improve the evaluation of teaching? Researcher Corbin Campbell was quoted in a Chronicle article recently, saying, “Folks will say quality teaching is hard to measure....

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When it comes to assessing teaching quality, we need to do more than just rely on student evaluations of teaching.

In today's Intentional Teaching podcast, I talk with Beate Brunow and Shawn Simonson about efforts on their campuses to assess and evaluate teaching in more meaningful ways.

Listen here: https://intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/14189134-assessing-teaching-with-beate-brunow-and-shawn-simonson

Assessing Teaching with Beate Brunow and Shawn Simonson - Intentional Teaching

In today’s episode, we dig into an important question for higher ed: How can we improve the evaluation of teaching? Researcher Corbin Campbell was quoted in a Chronicle article recently, saying, “Folks will say quality teaching is hard to measure....

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