Workshops & Webinars
Below you will find all the workshops and webinars CTI has produced on teaching strategies and resources. Also, we include workshops on learning technologies such as Canvas, Ally, and Poll Everywhere.
Teaching strategies | Teaching tools | Online teaching
Teaching strategies
These workshops explore specific strategies instructors can implement in the classroom to enhance student engagement and make the learning experience more dynamic.
Upcoming Spring 2023 Workshops
- Virtual Reality and Immersive Learning
- Thursday, March 2, 2023, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. Click this link to register.
- Description: CTI and faculty across Cornell are exploring immersive learning experiences that integrate digitally responsive spaces such as virtual, augmented, and mixed reality in teaching. Through a facilitated speaker panel, faculty will share what sparked their interest in this approach and how their teaching has evolved along with their students' experience. An opportunity to network and experience a virtual reality (VR) demonstration will follow the panel discussion.
- Panel: Andrea Stevenson Won, Assistant Professor of Communication & Director of the Virtual Embodiment Lab, CALS; M. Elizabeth Karns, Senior Lecturer of Statistics & Data Science, ILR; and Vinh Truong, Teaching Assistant and member of the Kellogg Lab, Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, CALS.
Audience: Open to Cornell faculty as well as others working and teaching in the XR space.
- Peer Learning and Group Evaluation Use Cases with Feedback Fruits
- FeedbackFruits: Getting Started with FeedbackFruits
- Structuring Learning Assessment: Assignment Design
- Structuring Learning Assessment: Rubric Design and Use
Recordings are available of the following past workshops:
- What Works: Classroom Polling Ideas to Engage Students
- Peer Learning and Group Evaluation Use Cases with Feedback Fruits
- FeedbackFruits: Strategies to Improve Student Peer Feedback
Teaching tools
These hands-on workshops provide training in using specific tools (e.g. Canvas, Poll Everywhere, etc.) with a special focus on using them to create engaging, student-centered course content.
Upcoming Spring 2023 Workshops:
Recordings are available of the following past workshops:
- Ed Discussion
- Using Hypothesis for Social Annotation
- Poll Everywhere - Canvas Grade Connection
- Ally training workshop
- Tips & Best Practices for Online Exams Using the Canvas Quiz Tool
- Teaching with Zoom
Staff & course administrator workshops & webinars
These workshops and webinars are designed to help train course administrators and faculty who will be responsible for Canvas course development or ensuring the accessibility of online content.
Online teaching
This series of previously recorded workshops can help you create engaging, student-centered courses in online learning environments.
- Making course materials accessible
- Building community in online spaces
- Active learning in online spaces
What works for online teaching
Faculty colleagues share successful online teaching ideas. Hosted by CTI, these faculty conversations are designed to help instructors identify strategies that colleagues have used successfully and find simple ways to improve the teaching and learning experience.
Click the links below for more information on each webinar, including recordings (note: the Assessment workshops were not recorded - please contact CTI about ideas for assessment)