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.
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