Spotlight on Innovative CMU Teaching
CMU instructors are innovators. In these dynamic, 5-minute talks, faculty and graduate student instructors share their creative, transferable solutions to common teaching and learning challenges.
2024
Daniel Ames
Getting Students Bought In On Day One with Demonstrations
EmElise Knapp
Welcome Cards and Thumb Scale Check-ins
Joshua Sunshine
Training REU Mentors to Support Sense of Belonging
Jennifer Bruder
LEGO® Serious Play in the Classroom
Derrick Gray
Reflection Assignments to Encourage Engagement with Practical Ethics
Tricia Douglas
Pedagogical Imaginaries Praxis
2023 - Generative AI, and Adapting to Generative AI in the Classroom
Emily DeJeu
AI Policies for "Learning to Write" vs "Writing to Learn" Tasks
Auldyn Matthews-McGee
Creating Course Materials and Giving Feedback with Artificial Intelligence
Michael DeSalvo
Limitations of Large Language Models as Personal Tutors
Ting Su
An AI-Based Tutor to Guide Second Language Learning
Justine Sherry
A Survey of Generative AI Use in a CSD Course
Simon Cullen
AI Debate Bots
2023 - Teaching and Learning Summit: Adapting to Generative AI in Teaching
Haylee Massaro
Embracing Generative AI in the Classroom
Danny Oppenheimer
Using LLMs and Other AI to Improve One's Courses
Raelin Sawka Musuraca
Alternative Media Encourages Novel Student Work
2023 - Spotlight on Inclusive Teaching: Enhancing Diversity, Equity, and Belonging
Đinh Ngọc Phượng (Phoebe)
Student Agency and Participatory Course Adjustments
Bryan Routledge
Is This a Rhetorical Question?
Stephanie Valencia
Designing an International Collaborative Course on Universal Design and Accessibility
Fethiye Ozis
Inclusive Teaching Strategy: Establishing Rapport
Amanda Willard and Lynley Doonan
Sharing Science Journeys to Establish Sense of Belonging
Ashley Orr
Orienting Students Mindsets Towards Growth
2022 - Teaching and Learning Summit
Mark Bedillion
CATME for Teamwork
Michael Laudenbach
Write & Audit: Corpus-Based Approaches to Statistics Writing
Haylee Massaro
Role Play, Case Studies, & Experiential Learning in the Classroom
Stacie Rohrbach
Designing Experiences for Learning
Dr. Emma Slayton
Rinse and Repeat: Group Projects as the Base for Scaffolding Work
2022 - Spotlight on Inclusive Teaching: Enhancing Diversity, Equity, and Belonging
Rebekah Fitzsimmons
Kyle Haden
Developing Diversity in DramaPatrick Walsh
Jerry Wang
Finding the Rainbow in the Rigor
2022 - Student Spotlight
Emma Benjaminson
Ananya Joshi
2019
Carla Bevins
Teams That Work: Developing Effective Teams Through Evidence-Based Skills Assessment Discovery
Kim Hyatt
Virtual Reality (VR) App: A Supplemental Instructional Tool
Jessica Hammer
Improving Peer Feedback in the Classroom
Mike McCarthy & Marty Barrett
Does Active Learning Help? If So, How Best to Debrief it?
2018
Alexis Adams
Promoting Student Participation in Whole-Group Discussions
Sarah Christian
Inquiry-based Learning in Civil Engineering Materials Lab
Bex Taylor
Building a class around site visits: how trips off-campus engage students, motivate their projects, and provide practice for reflective writing in engineering
Kelly Rivers
Collecting Solutions to Support Early Student Practice in Large Lectures
Alexa Woloshyn
Pushing Beyond the Canon: Celebrating Diversity and Supporting Inclusion in the Music Classroom (and Beyond)
2017
Catalina Achim
Development of Tools and Methods for Teaching Writing in STEM at the Graduate Level
Matt Bass
Engineering Data Intensive Scalable Systems: Experiences Flipping the Classroom
Christina Bjorndahl
How Can You Use Active Learning and iClickers to Make a Large Lecture Feel Like a Small Class?
Drew Davidson
Collaboratively Grading Interdisciplinary Projects in ETC Courses
Reeja Jayan
Virtual Engineering in Minecraft: Helping Students Visualize and Manipulate Material Properties (presented by Chad Hershock)
Brian Kovak
Active Learning to Interpret and Critique Research
Costa Samaras
Social Media in Engineering: Connecting Course Concepts to The Real World with Twitter
Ryan Tibshirani
Gearing Up for Research the Machine Learning Way: An Authentic In-class Conference Experience
Katie Walsh
Creating Historians: Using Canvas Discussion Posts to Develop Analytical Writing Skills
Beth Walter
Teaching Writing Skills Via Collaborative Rhetorical Analysis
Randy Weinberg
Speed Dating Enhances Active Learning
Dave Yaron
Chemcollective: Interactive Simulations to Promote Conceptual Learning of Chemistry
2016
Maggie Braun
Multidimensional Student Growth in a First Year Program
Daragh Byrne
The IDeATE Gallery
Lauren Cook
Tackling Diverse Student Backgrounds Before, During and After Class
Eleni Katrini
Blogs as Tool to Engage Students During Courses and Beyond
Aidan Kestigan
Blogging as Practice in Applied Philosophy
Jen Liu
Soft Fabrication: Skills-based Microcourse in Ideate
Marsha Lovett
Is My Teaching Intervention Working? How Can I tell?
Molly McCarter
Leadership Development through Student Choice and Reflection
Clayton Merrill, Catalina Achim
Teaching a Broad Spectrum: The Art and Science of Color
Bob Monroe
TPR Hybrid MBA: Online Teaching Strategies
Clive Newstead
Engaging Students in Mathematics Through Active Learning
Jeria Quesenberry
Effective Strategies for Teaching Group Work
Ryan Roderick, Pierce Williams, Susan Tanner
"Wiki Wha?": Using a Wiki to Enhance Learning and Transfer
Theresa Tardio
Community Engagement: Promising Practices in Global and Local Contexts
Bryan Webler
If You Can't Write it Down, You Don't Understand it