Though I was a part of TLi’s Blended Learning Cohort 4 in 2013, I am now teaching my first blended classes. Three sections of my First-Year Composition Course in the English Program are blended. We meet face-to-face once a week for an hour and 15 minutes and the rest of the class is online. I […]
Recently, I’ve been examining Brené Brown’s research about vulnerability and it’s really got me thinking about what it means to college and university professors, as well as how it may be acting as a barrier to innovation. I suspect that vulnerability may seem like a strange topic to many of you. However, my experiences, which I share below, […]
I am taking some risks here. This is a T&LI blog so most of our entries deal with technology, but I have another passion in the classroom, and that it is Service Learning. So when brainstorming to write this entry, I was wondering how much interest can Service Learning elicit among technology “inclined” instructors reading […]
How can technology improve relationships and provide for humanized learning experiences that transcend or take the place of a physical classroom? Ask one of the 3,521 CI students or 142 CI faculty who have used VoiceThread, an asynchronous conversation tool that is integrated into CI Learn. Some of the ways CI faculty are using VoiceThread […]
CI is committed to providing engaging, student-centered online learning experiences, whether they occur in a classroom, in a blended environment, or fully online. To support this vision, CI’s Online Teaching Preparation Program (OTPP) inspires faculty to incorporate the principles of humanized online learning into their courses. The infographic below illustrates what humanized learning is and provides a clear framework that […]
