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 and check our calendar for upcoming workshops.

Academic Technologies Lecture Series

Spring '23 Semester | Join Academic Technologies for weekly, sessions on topics such as YuJa, Canvas, One Button, Sharepoint, and more.

Supporting International Students’ Academic Success Series

April 18, 2023 | The International Student and Scholar Office and the CTT invite you to a series designed to help support the academic success of international students.

Creating an Inclusive Classroom for Neurodivergent Students

April 25, 2023 | This workshop will explore the ways in which neurodivergence may impact the learning experiences of students.

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.

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.

Aspirational Teaching Institute

The Aspirational Teaching Institute will be a 16-week long program designed to help tackle major teaching challenges. Those interested can join the individual learning sessions.

Course Mapping

1-13-22 This four-hour, highly interactive workshop will walk participants through the backward design process from writing course goals all the way up to brainstorming learning experiences.

Teaching Philosophy: Finding Your Why

1-12-22 This 90-minute, discussion-focused workshop will help participants consider what aspects of teaching they're most passionate about to write or revise a teaching philosophy.

Striving for Equity in Education

1-11-22 In this 90-minute, discussion-centered workshop we will share some key principles and strategies of inclusive teaching, but will also ask you to discuss with peers and review your own materials through this lens.

Encouraging Integrity: Using course design to create an anti-cheating classroom culture

11-16-21This session aims to explore the reasons students cheat, and to provide strategies for building a classroom culture of learning through course design and harnessing students' intrinsic motivation.