Institute for Online Teaching Strategies for Inclusive Excellence Online Learning Guide Teacher Connect Services
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CTT Teaching Grants: Round Three
The Center for Transformative Teaching is committed to student success through inclusive, innovative, research-informed teaching. In alignment with the N2025 strategy, the CTT offers the three grant programs to support UNL faculty in creating transformative learning experiences that engage students in co-creating knowledge, increasing interdisciplinary inquiry, demonstrating achievement, and preparing for their futures.Cross-Disciplinary Learning Assistant Seminar Creates Community, Better Teachers
In a cross-disciplinary seminar facilitated by Dr. Josh Brummer, an assistant professor of practice in the Mathematics department, the undergraduate learning assistants engaged in a semester-long course aimed at improving their understanding of effective teaching and learning techniques.UNL Students Invited to Participate in ICUR 2021
Last year, UNL participated in its first-ever ICUR, or the International Conference of Undergraduate Research. Seven students presented their research to a global audience. UNL will again participate in 2021 and seeks to increase the number of students presenting.Building Reputation to Dismantle Misinformation
There is a widespread belief that one of the principal problems that affect our students is that they are gullible. The opposite is the truth and it is cynicism that is afflicting our students. The problem is that such cynicism is so widespread and broad-based that not only the most unlikely and improbable stories in the media are regarded with suspicion by students, so are the most carefully researched, scientifically based, and truthful ones. In a society in which nothing is believed, power fills the void vacated by truth, and the path to authoritarianism is opened.