Derek Bruff

  • Vanderbilt University

    Event celebrates products of student learning

    The Center for Teaching's Celebration of Learning featured students and the products of their learning experiences in courses at Vanderbilt this year. Read More

    Apr 22, 2014

  • Professor of Computer Science Doug Schmidt films a video for Coursera. (Susan Urmy/Vanderbilt)

    Coursera-in-TN program to be held at Vanderbilt June 24

    Best practices for the use of the massive online open courseware platform Coursera among Tennessee colleges and universities will be discussed at a seminar 1-5 p.m. June 24 at Vanderbilt University. Read More

    Jun 21, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Professors tweak their pedagogical style with blogs

    Humberto Garcia's blog for The Romantic Period: Romanticism and Apocalypse. Social media tools have changed the way people communicate, learn and share ideas—and the academic world is no exception. More than ever before, professors, including some here at Vanderbilt, are using blogs to supplement more traditional teaching and grading… Read More

    Nov 26, 2012

  • BSC 111c poster session

    Laboratory throws away cookbooks in pursuit of discovery

    Students at BSC111c poster session discussing project that determined the phylogenetic relationship of a number of common insects (Susan Urmy / Vanderbilt) In an educational environment increasingly characterized by canned and virtual science experiments that always come out right, Vanderbilt’s alternative introductory biology laboratory (BSC 111c) stands… Read More

    May 20, 2011