Derek Bruff
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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 MoreApr 22, 2014
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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 MoreJun 21, 2013
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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 MoreNov 26, 2012
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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 MoreMay 20, 2011