Carnegie Mellon University
Eberly Center

Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation

Consultation Services for CMU

Whether you're designing a new course, innovating in your teaching methods, exploring a new educational technology, or refining how you assess student learning, you're not alone. Eberly Center offers one-on-one support to help you enhance teaching and learning via evidence-based practice.

Our consultants collaborate with instructors across the university to provide confidential, formative support in three key areas:

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All consultations are formative, voluntary, and confidential. Whether you're new to teaching or experienced, we’re here to support your teaching.

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Teaching Support

Partner with an expert to design or revise your course, implement inclusive and evidence-based strategies, or recieve formative feedback on your teaching. Services include:

  • Course and syllabus design
  • Evidence-Based Teaching Strategies
  • Statement of Teaching Philosophy
  • Lesson Plan Review (LPR)
  • Feedback on Teaching
  • Early Course Feedback (ECF) focus groups
  • Instructor-led surveys
  • Observations
  • How to Interpret Your FCEs
  • Design/Implement a Teaching Innovation
  • Solve a Teaching Problem

 

 

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Technology-Enhanced Learning

Leverage CMU’s educational technology ecosystem to support learning and teaching goals. We can help you select and implement tools that foster interaction, practice and feedback, accessibility, and student success. Support includes:

  • TEL matching - align the right tool(s) to meet the goals
  • Improve the fidelity of incorporating technology in your teaching/learning
  • Canvas course design and set up
  • Design of online modules
  • Interactive and collaborative learning technologies
  • Tool vetting and compliance assurance
  • Digital accessibility of your course materials
  • Help desk support

 

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Assessment & Feedback

Work with us to create meaningful assessments and collect data to reveal new insights to iteratively refine teaching and learning. We offer support in:

  • Designing assessments aligned with learning objectives

  • Data-informed course- and program-level iterative refinement

  • Teaching as Research (TAR)

  • IRB

  • Dissemination

  • Grants

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