2019 Annual Educational Innovation Conference

Boston University’s Ninth Annual Educational Innovation Conference brings together faculty, staff, graduate students, and post-docs from across BU and beyond to showcase excellence in teaching and learning and to explore collaborative visions of our future.

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Learning Sciences Speaker Series: Spring 2019

The Learning Sciences Speaker Series invites nationally recognized researchers to Boston University’s Charles River Campus to discuss contemporary research that spans topics in Educational Psychology, Cognitive Science, Human Computer Interaction, Sociology, Applied Linguistics, and Human Development. The Series is organized by the Center for Teaching & Learning in collaboration with the Office of the Associate Provost for Digital Learning & Innovation.

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Grants & Funding Opportunities

The CTL offers a number of grant and other funding opportunities to support innovative, inclusive and/or research-based teaching and learning projects. Other BU units offer grants that also support teaching and learning including the Digital Learning Initiative, and Program Learning Outcomes Assessment.

Please visit our Grants & Funding Opportunities page for the most up to date information.

Classroom Observation Troupe Faculty Learning Community

This DL&I initiative will support a cohort of up to 6 faculty members from across the university to explore teaching observation protocols and methods.  Please click here for additional information.

STEM Education Initiatives

Central to the success of CTL STEM Education Initiatives is connecting educators to the wide variety of curricular tools available within and outside Boston University to help advance the practice of teaching in the STEM disciplines. The resources on this page represent a continually growing list of STEM education-related programs designed to promote collaboration, innovation, and professional development. We hope that you will find it helpful in your own classrooms and laboratories and that you’ll assist us in continuing to build this page by letting us know of new opportunities.

BU Hub Guides and Resources

Fall 2018 signals the roll-out of the BU Hub, and the CTL has been working steadfastly with hundreds of BU faculty to help bring this new general education initiative to fruition. Through a series of one-day course revision workshops, the staff of the CTL have collaborated with faculty from across the university to transform existing courses into interdisciplinary learning experiences for undergraduate students. We’ve also developed a series of area guides and syllabus templates to help faculty prepare their courses. For a complete list of our BU Hub resources, guides, and stipend information, please visit our dedicated BU Hub webpage.

AR/VR Special Interest Group

Faculty reading groups bring together BU educators interested in developing their teaching through cross-disciplinary conversations. In the Fall 2019 semester, FRG participants will explore and discuss virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and extended reality (xR) teaching opportunities for classroom instruction. Click here for additional information!

Faculty Writing Group

Finding it difficult to write during the semester?  The CTL invites you to join its Faculty Writing Group on select Friday mornings (9:30-12:00) in the Conference Room at 141 Bay State Road. Set aside several hours a week to write alongside other faculty in a quiet and comfortable space. Bring your laptop and/or whatever you need to work. We provide snacks but otherwise leave you alone to write. Open to all faculty. Space is limited, so reserve your seat online. 

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Adobe Catalyst Program

The Center for Teaching & Learning’s new Adobe Catalyst program brings faculty together to help them become more comfortable using this powerful software tool in the classroom. The Adobe Catalyst program supports a growing set of Adobe resources at BU, including the Digital Learning & Innovation’s Digital Multimedia Common.

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Graduate Student Workshops

These one-hour workshops offer graduate students an opportunity to learn practical, research-based teaching strategies, to reflect on their own classroom practice, and to connect with TF’s from across the university. Please click here for more information.

Graduate Teaching Consultants

Graduate Teaching Consultants will support the CTL’s existing programming and services for fellow graduate student instructors by helping to co-facilitate teaching workshops and conducting LAPs during the 2020-2021 academic year. Please click here for more information.

Graduate Student Teaching Day

Are you teaching for the first time this spring? Or, would you like a chance to reflect on your past teaching experience in preparation for your upcoming teaching assignment?

Join us for the CTL’s Graduate Student Teaching Day. Participants will prepare for the first days of section, class, or lab; troubleshoot common teaching challenges; get tips for maintaining a healthy work-life balance from seasoned TF’s; learn about the services available year-round at the CTL; and connect with an interdisciplinary community of fellow graduate student instructors. While sessions are designed with first-time instructors in mind, experienced TF’s are also welcome! Please click here for additional information and registration.

Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) Scholars Program

The SoTL Scholars Program acquaints graduate student and postdoctoral participants with the fundamental concepts and core practices of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, a field of inquiry that examines the intersection of instruction and student learning across disciplines in higher education. Please click here for additional information.

CIRTL@BU

Are you interested in a career as a future faculty member? Take advantage of any of the CIRTL@BU career development programs and workshops to gain valuable experience and meet other graduate students and post-docs across the country. Every semester, the CTL and Boston University Community partners with CIRTL to offer a variety of future-faculty focused online courses that leverage the expertise and diversity of professionals from across the CIRTL network. Please visit http://cirtl.net for more information on how you can engage this resource.

Network of Centers for Teaching & Learning

The Colonial Group is a consortium of fourteen universities formed by the Provosts of our respective universities, and supported by a close network of Centers for Teaching & Learning which engage in the exchange of effective practices, strategies, and ideas. Please click here for additional information.

CTL Faculty Fellows

The Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) Faculty Fellows program offers its fellows the opportunity to enhance their teaching and be active members of a teaching community at Boston University. Please click here for additional information.

CTL New Faculty Retreat

The CTL’s New Faculty Retreat is a 5-day program, devised to help faculty new to BU develop into exceptional teachers by providing them with knowledge, skills, and a supportive community of interdisciplinary peer educators. During the week, faculty will examine the importance of learning objectives, construct course level assessments, employ effective grading strategies, experiment with active learning strategies, develop discipline-specific classroom activities, interact with teaching technologies, develop a complete or near-complete syllabus, discover the science of student motivation and student learning, and explore BU’s teaching resources. Please click here for additional information.

Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) Faculty Learning Community

This CTL initiative supports faculty interested in improving their teaching practice through academic inquiry. Participants in this learning community will not only read research-based scholarship about new teaching practices and new uses of digital media and learning technologies; they will also develop strategies to study how these and other instructional interventions impact their students’ learning. Please click here for additional information.

Blended Learning Challenge Faculty Learning Community

The Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) invites faculty to apply to the year-long Blended Learning Challenge. This faculty learning community will help faculty transition portions of their class to the online environment while incorporating active learning strategies into their face-to-face class meetings. Please click here for additional information.