Faculty Excellence

Last Friday, the Brown Center for Faculty Innovation and Excellence and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion hosted a virtual panel discussion titled, “Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation as a Campus Community”, which you can find the recording to at the link above.  The discussion was powerful and we are grateful to the panelists for […]

This resource was provided by Dr. Heather Evans-Anderson, Dept. of Health Sciences. It describes strategies for employing a range of options (e.g., group work, discussions, note taking, etc) to enhance student engagement. https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/2020/06/active-learning-in-hybrid-and-socially-distanced-classrooms/

This resource was provided by Dr. Bill Sause, Dept. of Business Systems and Analytics. It provides information on ‘hardening’ online exams/quizzes against cheating. Respondus is accessed via the ‘Course Management’ tool bar in Blackboard. Preparing an exam for use with Lockdown Browser and Respondus Monitor https://www.youtube.com/embed/7J1K8-R20ao?rel=0&autoplay=1 Instructor Quick Start Guide https://www.respondus.com/downloads/RLDB-QSG-Bb-Instructor-Ultra.pdf

The Blended Learning Toolkit provides a comprehensive array of resources to help faculty create a blended/hybrid courses. The Toolkit was created as a result of a collaboration between The University of Central Florida and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) and twenty AASCU member institutions. The consortium was funded by the Next Generation

Stetson’s Office of Online Learning and Educational Technology (OOLET) provides Ensemble Video v5.4.0×2 as another powerful platform to create video-based content for courses. This post contains links to resources that demonstrate how to use Ensemble’s various functionalities. Three links are provided. One link was created by OOLET to serve as a guide of important functionalities.

Converting a face-to-face course to an online offering presents many challenges and anxieties. At the heart of any online course lies the platform for delivering it. As we continue to adapt to the disruptions caused by COVID-19, the need to develop or enhance online content is more important now than ever. To facilitate your ongoing

We have received the following information from WORLD to pass on to as many faculty members as possible: The Islamic holy month of Ramadan began last Thursday, April 23. This means that our Muslim students will be fasting for the duration of the approaching finals season (Friday, May 1-Saturday, May 2 and Monday, May 4-Tuesday,

Thank you to all that attended the webinar today the following is the link to the recording of the session along with all resources discussed. https://us-lti.bbcollab.com/recording/8bfc8bdc45a642e3906a3d51218fda79 Below, we’ve included the documents that were presented during this session for you to view and/or download, as promised.

The Brown Center would like to thank everyone who has participated with our recent COVID-19 mini-grant initiative, which is now closed. As always, we strive to support faculty as leaders and innovators. We recognized that this pandemic was going to be a challenging time for everyone involved and were so happy for the opportunity to help so many of you innovate out of necessity as you transitioned your classes to online

We recognize that the online transition due to the COVID-19 pandemic can be hard on our faculty and staff. In order to uphold our values and assist our faculty during this unprecedented situation, the staff at the Brown Center will focus on providing all full-time and part-time faculty with individual attention as needed. Members of the teaching faculty can call or email