The Fellows Program is funded under the Quality Enhancement Plan: Creating Communities of Learners through Active Learning and Student Engagement (Focus on Project Management). Three fellowships in the areas of mentoring, instructional strategies, and assessment may be awarded to UWF faculty each year. Fellows are asked to collaborate with the CUTLA Director to strengthen CUTLA programs, assist in expanding online resources for faculty in the areas directly related to each Fellowship, and collaborate with other Fellows to develop and promote model programs that develop teaching strategies to promote active learning and student engagement, improve student learning, and promote student and faculty success at UWF.

Current Fellows

Workshops on Academic Learning Compacts, Student Learning Outcomes, and Assessment includes guidelines and tips for writing and assessing student learning outcomes for General Studies, undergraduate programs, and graduate programs.

Provided to individuals or small groups upon request.

Faculty workshops held on Fridays in the University Conference Center. The Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment will provide lunch, beginning at noon. The workshop program will begin at 1 PM. Faculty should register in advance for these workshops, which will be limited to 30 attendees.

Topics include syllabi and classroom issues, tenure and promotion, rubric development and assessment linked to student learning outcomes, balancing teaching, research, and service in academia, academic and career advising for undergraduate and graduate students, preparing and presenting materials for the annual evaluation, and pedagogy of distance and on-line learning.

The Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment; Academic Affairs; and the Quality Enhancement Plan sponsor two mini-conferences each year. The fall mini-conference is focused on instructional strategies for active learning and student engagement. The spring mini-conference showcases examples of effective use of assessment for curriculum evaluation and continuous improvement.

The mini-conferences are day-long events with a variety of presentations. The schedule of presentations will be posted on the CUTLA web site so that faculty will be able to attend those sessions that fit into their schedule. Faculty from Pensacola Junior College and Okaloosa-Walton College are invited to attend these mini-conferences.  (Mini-conferences are funded in part by the QEP.)

The Brown Bag Discussion sessions are an opportunity for faculty to gather in a quite place to lunch together and share ideas about a selected topic related to teaching, developing research, or other professional development concerns. Topics for discussion will be announced on the CUTLA calendar and through group e-mail. Please contact Claudia Stanny, at cstanny@uwf.edu, at the Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment if you have a specific topic you would like to discuss. These suggested topics will be scheduled for future sessions.

Brown Bag Discussions meet from noon until 1:00 PM.

Like the Brown Bag Discussions, the roundtables are informal faculty discussions. Roundtable Discussions will meet in the late afternoon. Topics for discussion will be announced in advance.

Roundtable Discussions meet from 3:00 – 4:00 PM.

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Interest Group

Calendar Schedule

Faculty interested in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning meet once a month to discuss topics related to SoTL. The group will discuss the characteristics of SoTL and the various methodologies that might be used when developing a teaching-related research project. The group provides mutual support for participant’s SoTL projects, including advice about the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, and preparation of submissions to conferences and journals.

A Faculty Learning Community (FLC) is a multidisciplinary group of faculty, graduate students and professional staff that is engaged in a long-term collaborative learning effort. The typical FLC is comprised of 6-15 individuals. Many FLCs focus on topics related to curriculum and teaching issues (including the use of technology in teaching). The FLC meets regularly over a period of 6 months – 1 year to discuss the scholarly literature related to their topic and plan activities for disseminating their work to the larger campus community.

Contact Claudia Stanny, at cstanny@uwf.edu, if you are interested in establishing a faculty learning community.

More information on the Turnitin system can be found at their web site: http://turnitin.com.

To obtain a password, contact Mary Hallford at mhallfor@uwf.edu.