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Perhaps no industry was altered quite as much as education, as schools across the country pivoted overnight to entirely remote instruction. At UAB, units like the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) help faculty shift to online learning, and programs such as the UAB Expo used a remote format to showcase excellence in research, creativity and scholarship.
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Recently Melissa Hawkins, the CTL International Teaching and Learning Specialist, gave a workshop discussing current challenges that international students are facing during this time of COVID-19 and what we can do, as faculty and instructors, to help. Click the link above to view the video (BlazerID login required) or click here to read a newsletter with this same information.
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Scott Phillips, Ph.D., director of the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), demonstrates the technology from Heritage Hall.
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UAB Reporter talks to Melissa Hawkins, international teaching and learning specialist at the CTL about ways we can help international students during the coronavirus crisis.
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The UAB Department of Family and Community Medicine—in partnership with the UAB Center for Teaching and Learning and the UAB Center for Clinical Translational Science—has established a Faculty Development Fellowship program.
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Recent recipients of the Center for Teaching and Learning's Platinum Certificate answer questions about their experiences at the CTL and share the lessons that made the most impact on their own teaching practices.
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Professors from six schools and a college were awarded CTL-QEP Teaching Innovation Grants to support new approaches to instruction and learning in a team environment. In total, faculty received $34,705 for the development and execution of their proposals.
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WBRC, Fox6's John Huddleston speaks with CTL Director, Scott L. Phillips and CTL Associate Director, Brian C. Moon about the efforts by UAB faculty to save student's money by taking advantage of the CTL's Affordable Instructional Materials grant.
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In four semesters, 17 UAB faculty have invested time and energy on behalf of students, with substantial results: By creating their own online assets in Canvas, using rental textbooks or older editions and identifying free online resources, faculty saved students more than $1 million on instructional materials.
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EAB includes UAB in their list of innovators because of the Center for Teaching and Learning's gamified faculty development.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education features the UAB Center for Teaching and Learning's gamification efforts.
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Scott Phillips, director of the UAB Center for Teaching and Learning, is the 2018 recipient of the Sam Brown Bridge Builder Award, given to a faculty or staff member who is committed to cross-campus collaboration.
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Affordable Instructional Materials grants, awarded by UAB Center for Teaching and Learning and funded in partnership with the UAB Bookstore, were awarded to 10 faculty in psychology, chemistry, English, biology, public health and business for the spring 2018 semester.
