CITL News

If you would like to work with Lehigh's Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) on a class you are teaching in summer 2018 or Academic Year 2018-19 please submit a brief proposal by Friday, April 27, 2018. Someone from the Center will be in touch with you in early May.

• Consultation about General Teaching and Learning Topics
• Academic Uses of Visualization, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality
• Consultation on Writing, Research, and Inquiry Projects
• Inclusive Teaching, Active Learning, or Project-based Courses
• Teaching in a CITL Classroom and other Flexible/Active Learning Spaces
• Academic Uses of Visualization, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality
• Course-related Digital Scholarship, Video, Film, or Multimedia Projects
• Enhancing Teaching using Digital Tools, Instructional Videos or Modules
• Developing a Fully Online Course
• Research Computing Facilities for Teaching
• Digital Texts or Open Access Material
• Teaching in Large Lecture Halls

The purpose of this annual event is to highlight new, interesting, and effective approaches to teaching and learning at Lehigh. Each year, faculty, staff, student, and community presenters from across disciplines and contexts share good ideas and inspire others. Come share an idea, learn from colleagues, and join us as we celebrate the work of those who have met with success of one kind or another in their teaching and learning.

The Symposium will once again be held over two days: Wednesday, April 11th and Thursday, April 12th and will be presented in partnership with the Center for Community Engagement.

Please mark your calendars and attend as you are able.

All are welcome to submit a proposal to present at the Symposium.

We will consider all proposals but we especially encourage proposals that fall under the following themes:

• Active Learning
• Community-engaged Learning and Research
• Course-related Digital Scholarship Projects
• Creative Inquiry
• Entrepreneurial-minded Learning
• Inclusive Teaching
• Innovative Uses of Classroom Spaces
• Online / Hybrid / Blended / Flipped Courses
• Peer Learning / Collaborative Learning
• Project- or Problem-Based Learning

Please submit your proposal by March 25th, 2018.

Materials from Winter Workshop 2018

Below are the available materials from the 2018 Winter Workshop:

• 2018 Winter Workshop Plenary Welcome
• Active Learning Presentation | Handout
• The Art of Lecturing | Preparing a Lecture
• Creating effective presentations

About the event 

The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) is hosting a day-long workshop on Thursday, January 11th, 2018.  Coffee, tea, and lunch will be provided.

The workshop will have sessions on a wide variety of pedagogical and instructional technology topics, including: Course Design, The Art of Lecturing, Active Learning Approaches, Designing Effective Writing and Research Assignments, Online Learning, Course Site topics (assignments, quizzes, and grade book), Creating Instructional Videos, Instructional Uses of WordPress, and Virtual Reality in Education.

This is a great opportunity to learn about the new Course Site upgrade, discuss teaching with colleagues and CITL staff, and to warm up your teaching skills for the spring semester. Our new Visualization lab will be open for tours and demonstrations, as well as our data center.

Please register by 9:00 am, Monday, Jan 7th.

The Fellowship provides $5,000 to full-time faculty (of any rank or any discipline) who want to use visualization (geospatial, volumetric, temporal, multidimensional, virtual, etc.) in their research and teaching.  The Fellowship will support planning and implementation of a course using the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning Visualization Lab.

Successful applicants for the Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellowship will collaborate with the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning staff and focus on the following:

1. Develop assignment(s) using the tools and technologies available in the Visualization Lab;

2. Address a scholarly question through new research methods or new ways of interrogating or representing research;

3. Invite collaboration ranging from undergraduate students to senior researchers;

The Fellowship should result in a course description and an assignment(s) incorporating data visualization for a class to be taught in Fall 2018 or Spring 2019.  The Fellowship can support release time*, stipend, and/or a graduate assistant. Additionally, priority will be given for access to the Visualization lab.  

The Fellowship does not support the following: creation or conversion of a scholarly journal, conferences or professional meetings, travel, acquisition of computer equipment or software, preparation or publication of articles or textbooks. At the conclusion of the funding period, Fellows will present their work at a campus-wide Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning event in Spring 2019.

Contact Julia Maserjian at jcm5@lehigh.edu with questions.