PTF Impacts
Provost's Teaching Fellows have made lasting impacts in their departments, colleges and schools, all of the University of Texas, and even the broader scholarship of teaching and learning. Through both individual initiatives and university-wide programs, PTFs continue to serve as catalysts for positive change and further our campus culture of teaching and learning.
Displaying 26 - 50 of 53Team-Based Learning in the Political Science Classroom (Journal of Political Science Education)
Team-Based Learning is a specific interactive educational method that has been shown to develop skills for meaningful teamwork. Through engaging classroom activities, students experience the benefits of working with others. According to the literature, students perceive the benefits of teamwork including understanding the course material more deeply and producing higher quality class assignments.
Bridging the Internship Gap: Preliminary Findings from the Internship Project (International Communication Association)
Chen, W. et al., (2023). Bridging the Internship Gap: Preliminary Findings from the Internship Project. Paper presented at Media Sociology Postconference, International Communication Association, Toronto.
Measuring Impactful Teaching Practices in Global Virtual Exchange (International Virtual Exchange Conference)
"Measuring Impactful Teaching Practices" was presented at the International Virtual Exchange Conference, December 2022, Spain. We explore Global Virtual Exchange (or GVE) at the University of Texas at Austin in the last academic year, 2021-2022 to measure the impact of the faculty-led program, Our main takeaway was that professors and students participating in the GVE program find the greatest benefits to be in the intercultural student-to-student exchange and the exposure to different perspectives.
Engineering Sentences at a Writing Center: A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
"Engineering Sentences at a Writing Center: A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration" This virtual presentation about our pilot program was delivered at the College Composition and Communication Regional Conference, University of Southern California, Dec. 19, 2020
The Odyssey (1997), with Deborah Beck (Movies We Dig Podcast)
I made a guest appearance on the Classics media podcast "Movies We Dig" in part because the hosts knew of my work with "Musings in Greek Literature." On this podcast, hosted by several young Classicists including two graduates of the UT Classics Ph.D. program, I discussed the made-for-TV version of Homer's Odyssey starring Armand Assante and Isabelle Rosselini (1997).
American Council on Education & Global Virtual Exchange Program & The American Council on Education Conference
The 2019-20 international collaboration between (US)-ESPOL(Ecuador)-UAM (Venezuela) provided evidence of the COIL model for course design in achieving student outcomes. Our experiences with icebreakers, collaborative projects, and assessment tools were shared at the American Council on Education's 2021 annual meeting.
International Virtual Exchange Program (Texas Global)
UT's Global Virtual Exchange program provides small grants to promote meaningful collaboration across universities. Uniquely situated in an R1, the program offers new insights into faculty-led initiatives that support teaching innovation even where research is also highly valued. We presented program design at the International Virtual Exchange Conference 2020.