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Workshops

The CTT and its partners provide opportunities to learn about specific pedagogical interventions, new technologies to support teaching, and to engage in lively discussions of effective pedagogy with colleagues from across the disciplines. We create workshops for the campus as a whole and also customize workshops for colleges and departments. Contact us for more information.

Supporting International Students’ Academic Success Fall 2023

Herbie Husker and UNL international students fly the flags of various countries.

Learn how instructors can best utilize the strengths of international students and help them be successful in the classroom.

Past

Many of our past workshops provide resources referenced or used in the session. If you would like us to customize one of these workshops for a specific department or other group, please contact the CTT at ctt@unl.edu or an instructional designer assigned to your college.

Enhancing Teaching with Technology

A smiling student points to a screen while talking with another student.

Sep 8 | Intentional use of technology can help instructors gain efficiencies and help students learn more effectively.

Course Mapping Workshop

Faculty talking with instructional designers about course materials.

Aug 10 | This workshop walks participants through the backward design process from writing course goals all the way up to brainstorming learning experiences.

Institute of Online Teaching

Hands typing on a keyboard.

Jul 17 The four-week Teaching Online Learning Community (ToLC) is designed to guide novice online instructors in exploring the challenges and maximizing the opportunities of the online learning environment.

Supporting International Students’ Academic Success Series Spring 2023

A male and female student sit side by side looking at notes and a computer screen.

April 18, 2023 | Instructor Voices: Lessons Learned About Effectively Teaching International Students. How might instructors help them to be as successful in the classroom as possible?

Creating an Inclusive Classroom for Neurodivergent Students

April 25 | This workshop will explore the ways in which neurodivergence may impact the learning experiences of students.

Promoting Gender Equity in the Classroom

Thurs, March 23, 2023 Specific, evidence-based teaching strategies that instructors can use to foster an educational environment that is supportive of students of all genders will be discussed.

Inclusive Teaching Strategies that Foster an Anti-Racist Classroom

1-23-23 | Participants learned basic principles of how to make teaching more inclusive to best serve all students.

Learning Analytics for Everyday Teaching

This 3-session program begins November 17 and introduces participants to course-level learning analytics (LA). Each 60-minute in-person session will be followed by an optional 30-minute hands-on session.

Intro to Inclusive Teaching

9-8-22 | Participants will learn some basic principles of how to make teaching more inclusive to best serve all students.

Academic Technologies Learning Opportunities

Fall '22 | Academic Technologies conducted weekly, synchronous sessions on topics such as Canvas, Respondus, YuJa, and more.

Developing a Teaching Portfolio

12-19-22 | This workshop helped participants with developing a teaching portfolio.

Backward Design: Course Mapping

5-18-22 In this four hour, highly interactive workshop participants through the backward design process from writing course goals all the way up to brainstorming learning experiences.