Good day, faculty. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to make greater student learning possible . . . [cue theme music] The Institute for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (IETL) will hold its 2018 Summer Academy on Teaching, a two-day event open to full-time and part-time faculty at Chapman University, on Tuesday,
It has been exactly one year since Chapman University moved to paperless course evaluations, saving over 100,000 sheets of paper annually. Students will see the links to all available evaluations on their Blackboard landing pages starting on April 30 for courses in the standard Spring Semester calendar. Students should wait until their instructor provides time
The Institute for Excellence in Teaching and Learning’s (IETL) newest campus-wide program launches this week. The Faculty Open Classroom Initiative (FOCI) will be held April 11-17 on the Orange Campus, with over 60 full-time and part-time faculty opening their classes to visiting colleagues. The purpose of FOCI Week, modeled after similar programs at Yale and other universities,
Ever wonder how other faculty members teach? What their classrooms are like? How it feels to be a student today, specifically at Chapman? The Institute for Excellence in Teaching and Learning’s (IETL’s) new Faculty Open Classroom Initiative – FOCI, for short – aims to connect Chapman’s teaching faculty to each other by pairing volunteer faculty
As of February 5th, the Academic Technology division was reorganized and renamed to Educational Technology Services. The former divisions of Academic Technology and Learning Spaces will be combined under this one umbrella. This new name and organization will be led by Jana Remy as Director. More changes are ahead with the formation of this division,
I’d like to think that all higher education faculty, at Chapman University and elsewhere, are aware of several ways that we accommodate students who have documented disabilities and need assistance in order to optimally perform in our classes. Large print materials, screen readers, voice amplification, use of a laptop or a note taker, preferential seating,
Happy 4th of July
Collaborative learning is a pedagogical method often used to help students build advanced skills with material by using a social learning model. It is based in social learning theory, such as Lev Vygotsky’s foundational ideas on the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) (summarized, this means the learning one can achieve by being paired with and
All fall semester grades are due Monday, January 2, 2017, but why wait! Online grade submission must be done through my.chapman.edu; grades entered into Blackboard are not considered official and are not applied to student records. For step-by-step instructions on how to assign final grades please download the PDF below. Also, for more training and