Mike Smith

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Innovate Virtual Conference-Online Learning Consortium

    Faculty are cordially invited to the Online Learning Consortium’s Innovate Virtual Conference, which the Center for Faculty Excellence and Innovation will be hosting April 20th through 22nd.  We’ll cover a wide array of innovative practices and topics, including the current state of tele-presence/web-conferencing, digital scholarship, mobile learning, gamification, and much more. You can …

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Edu-Tech Cafe, Spring 2016

The Center for Faculty Excellence and Innovation invites faculty to join us for Edu-tech Café, an open session highlighting some of the innovative methods faculty are using to engage students.  Our featured guests will be Dr. Stuart Anderson and Dr. Pamela Webster of the Math Department.  We will be discussing some of the tech tools …

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Open Educational Resources page

  We’ve put together a very small list of various open educational resources which you can find on our CFEI website Open Educational Resources, also known as OER) typically refers to instructional tools that are free for faculty to use and widely available online.  This is different from a tool for which that an institution …

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Do you want to be lectured?

Sign of a Lecture in Progress

  A recent article in the Chronicle of Education features a letter from students responding to a study about the efficacy on lecture as the dominant model of “content delivery in college classes.  Even as discussions about active learning and project based assignments continuously ripple through higher education, it seems we find ourselves married to …

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Faculty Need FAQ

We’ve compiled a small list of FAQs that will help faculty navigate the many services and resources that the Center for Faculty Excellence and Innovations provides. Faculty Need FAQ document (PDF) We start with the faculty need and work our way from there, identifying which service or resource may best suit our faculty.

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