C-TEL Workshops and Resources
Rethinking Assessments for an Online Setting
Friday, April 3 10:00-11:30 Online - Register Here
This session will cover a variety of alternative assessments for teaching online. If you are rethinking how and whether you will test students as you teach remotely, this session will help you think through your options.
Discussion Group: How to Recover the Joy of Teaching After an Online Pivot
Thursday, April 9 2:00-3:00 Online - Register Here
We will discuss the article, How to Recover the Joy of Teaching After an Online Pivot by Flower Darby in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Please read the article before the session, and join us with questions and reactions.
C-TEL Peer Coaching for Online Teaching
For any faculty who have specific questions or would like more personalized help as they begin to teach online, you can view information and a contact schedule of Washburn faculty who have volunteered to help. These faculty have experience teaching on-line and have volunteered to hold "virtual office hours" making themselves available for questions and support. Please note the list includes the best way(s) to contact each coach as well as their areas of expertise. Please contact CTEL with any questions (ctel@washburn.edu).
Assignments & Discussions in D2L
Monday, April 6, 2:30-4:00, Online - Register Here
OR Watch the Recording
In this session we cover how to create and score assignments and discussions in Desire2Learn.
Quizzes in D2L
Tuesday, April 7, 10:00-11:30, Online - Register Here
OR Watch the Recording
In this session we cover how to create and score quizzes in Desire2Learn.
Grades in D2L
Friday, April 3, 1:30-3:00, Online - Register Here
Wednesday, April 8, 2:30-4:00, Online - Register Here
In this session we cover how to set up your gradebook and enter grades in Desire2Learn.
D2L Basics
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This session covers logging in, finding your course, general navigation, announcements, emailing, uploading files, and sharing links and videos.
Zoom Training
Zoom has many recorded and live webinars available. We recommend the “Zoom Meetings for Education” option, however the “Getting Started with Zoom Meetings” would be helpful too (there is overlap between the two options). Use the Washburn Specific Zoom Information hand in hand with the information presented in the webinars hosted by Zoom.
Free Online Offerings from Outside Sources
The Online Learning Consortium (OLC)
- Keeping Students Engaged in a Transition to Online Learning
Watch the Recording
View the Presentation Slides
As educators across the country and at all levels rush to shift their teaching to a virtual environment, their first focus is content and delivery—rightly so. Faculty also need to know how to identify online at-risk student behaviors that, if mitigated, can lead to better course outcomes and satisfaction for faculty and students, alike.
This session will help you identify ways to proactively keep your students engaged in an online environment (course) and understand what data you can use to help mitigate attrition. -
How to Survive Your (Hurried) Switch to Online Delivery Using UDL
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View the Presentation Slides
In this webinar, we will discuss how to survive the process of converting your on-ground course to an online course, and even improve the course by applying the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL is an educational framework that seeks to remove barriers by providing multiple means of engagement, representation and action and expression.
Desire2Learn
Certificate of Teaching and Learning
Track and document your professional development activities by registering to earn your Certificate of Teaching and Learning. Once you register for the certification process, we will begin tracking your participation in C-TEL sponsored events that focus on teaching excellence. Each time you participate you will earn a badge for that event type that will be posted under your name in the participation list (see the Read More section for details and participation list). Once you have earned nine badges you will have earned your Certificate of Teaching and Learning for that academic year. Certificates are awarded at the Celebration of Teaching at the end of the academic year.
Fill out this form to register for the Certificate of Teaching and Learning.
You need to register for a certificate EACH YEAR.
Certificate of Inclusive Teaching and Learning (New this year!)
This certificate is awarded to those who attend nine diversity events. When you are awarded this certificate, you will also be given a placard that can be posted on your office door and a confirmation statement that you can include in your syllabus stating that you have attended training in inclusive teaching techniques. Anyone who has registered for the Certificate of Teaching and Learning will automatically be registered for this certificate as well.
Fill out this form to register for the Certificate of Teaching and Learning.
You need to register for a certificate EACH YEAR.
Grants
Washburn University offers faculty and staff support in their teaching efforts through a suite of Teaching/Learning Grants including:
- C-TEL Small Grants: focus on promoting active learning and learner centered pedagogies.
- Curriculum Development Grants: focus on the development of high quality course and curriculum content.
- Assessment Grants: provide faculty with resources to facilitate their assessment practices.
See "More Information" for details, applications, and deadlines.
New Faculty
C-TEL provides a variety of support for faculty beginning their careers at Washburn. The New Faculty Orientation helps acquaint our incoming faculty to the practical logistics of working at Washburn and introduces them to the culture of the university.
New Faculty Orientation
August 9 from 7:30am to 5:00pm
Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center Convocation Hall
Register Here
Teaching Resources
Resources to support excellent, innovative instruction in a variety of teaching settings, such as:
- Active Learning
- Flipped Classroom
- Case Based Teaching
- Problem Based Learning
- Team Based Learning
- And more...
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
The Center for Teaching Excellence and Learning (C-TEL) endeavors to promote, support, and engage in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) - the scholarly inquiry into the practice of teaching in order to enhance student learning. Faculty and staff who engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning, just like those who participate in discipline-specific research, make their findings public for peer review and for the welfare of other faculty and faculty developers.
Assessment
The purpose of assessment is to improve learning-centered approaches. Teaching can improve through focused collection, analysis, and distribution of evidence of student learning. It includes consciously creating measurable objectives at the lesson, course, program, and university levels.
Diversity
Washburn defines diversity broadly to encompass gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, sexual orientation and identity, disability, age, religion and national origin. Since the classroom is foundational to the culture of a university, a valuing of diversity will spill out into other aspects of the Washburn community and create a more welcoming and inclusive campus.
HICEPs
High Impact Community Engagement Practices (HICEPs) are any student centered, interactive, experiential educational endeavors, either curricular or co-curricular, that are clearly community focused and action based. The purpose is to move from an observer of the conditions that exist in our society to intellectual awareness and informed action.
Technology
There are numerous technological tools that faculty can use to enhance student learning both inside and outside the classroom. When integrated effectively classroom technologies can strengthen learning activities, engage students, and provide students with an opportunity to communicate, collaborate, and create knowledge.C-TEL Staff
Dr. Melanie Burdick
- is the Director of C-TEL and an Associate Professor of English. She has a PhD in Curriculum and Teaching from KU, and a MA in English literature from University of Missouri -- Kansas City. She has been at Washburn since 2011.
Sue Taylor-Owens
- is the Instructional Designer. She earned her Master of Science in Education, Information Technology emphasis, from the University of Nebraska - Kearney. She has been at Washburn since 2008.
Cat Jaynes
- is the Administrative Specialist for both C-TEL and Assessment. She has been at Washburn since 2016
Karen Barron
- is the Coordinator of Community Engaged Learning (HICEPs) and Lecturer in the English Department. She has an MFA in Fiction from Bennington College and a BA from Kansas State University. She has been at Washburn since 2006.
Michael Clouser
- is the C-TEL Washburn Tech Coordinator. He is a technical instructor in the Transportation Division at Washburn Tech.
Teaching Fellows
Keith Farwell
Lecturer, Allied Health
(Online Education)
Rik Hine
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
(Active Learning Pedagogy)
Kelly McClendon
- Lecturer, International Programs
(Adjunct Faculty Support)
Michael McGuire
- Associate Professor, Psychology
(Teaching Consultation)
Amy Memmer
- Associate Professor, Criminal Justice
(Active Learning Pedagogy)
Muffy Walter
- Assistant Professor, English
(Diversity and Inclusion)
Tina Williams
- Study Abroad Program Coordinator, International Programs
(Diversity and Inclusion)
- James Barraclough
- Kevin Charlwood
- Michael Clouser
- Danielle Dempsey-Swopes
- Rick Ellis
- Kelly Erby
- Michael Gleason
- Vickie Kelly
- John Lemon
- Pamela Schmidt
- Sue Taylor-Owens
- Shirley Waugh
- Gwen Wilson
C-TEL's Mission & Goals
The mission of the Center for Teaching Excellence and Learning (C-TEL) is to promote excellence and innovation in teaching and enhance student learning at Washburn University and Washburn Tech. C-TEL works collaboratively within the university community to develop and sustain a university culture that values and rewards teaching in all its forms and venues, respects and supports differences among learners, and creates enriched learning environments in which diverse students, faculty, and staff can excel. We act as a resource for the university community by offering a wide array of research-based programs and services that support teaching. We serve as a catalyst for university-wide dialogue that fosters a shared vision of teaching excellence and learning-centered education at Washburn and Washburn Tech. The goals of the staff of C-TEL are to: -Create a community of faculty, staff and peer student educators focused on the craft of teaching. -Promote continued awareness of best practices in teaching and learning as reflected in literature. -Promote and support the effective use of new technologies in the learning process to enhance student learning. -Facilitate the use of teaching strategies that engage students in active learning. -Promote and support the diffusion of diversity into courses, curricula, and co-curricular learning. -Support research related to teaching and learning through assessment of student learning. -Promote the use of dynamic high impact practices to enhance student learning. -Promote and support the scholarship of teaching and learning.
GET IN TOUCH WITH CTEL
Center for Teaching Excellence & Learning
Morgan Hall room 204
1700 SW College Ave.
Topeka, KS 66621
Phone & Email
785.670.2835
ctel@washburn.edu
