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CIRTL Pilots Digital Learning Portfolios

March 8, 2021

As part of a larger shift on campus toward reflection and portfolio learning, CIRTL is piloting the use of digital learning portfolios as a way for our members to track their progress and reflect on their learning as they pursue their certificate levels. 

Learn more about CIRTL Portfolios

CIRTL Teaching Tidbits

Feb. 17, 2021

As part of a larger effort to develop a repository of “best practices” on teaching during COVID to share across the CIRTL Network, institutions were encouraged to submit 3-minute “Teaching Tidbit” videos that addressed various challenges associated with creating community online to the Fall ‘20 CIRTL Meeting. UArizona’s contribution, “Using Padlet to Generate Discussion in Professional Development Workshops,” reflected on using Padlet in our Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs), which transitioned from in-person to online this past fall.

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Dr. Kristin Winet

Heileman's Blockchain Project Wins Innovation Challenge

Feb. 16, 2021

Greg Heileman is leading an effort to make the transfer credit articulation process more efficient and equitable via blockchain. UnBlockEd is one of four project that won the first phase of the $900,000 Blockchain Innovation Challenge hosted by the American Council on Education and funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

View KOLD 13's Coverage of UnBlockEd
UnBlockEd

CIRTL Member Spotlight - Morgan Carter

Feb. 13, 2021

Morgan Carter is a postdoc in Dr. David Baltrus’ lab in the School of Plant Sciences. She loves teaching about molecular biology, microbes, and plants because these are all things that are often overlooked or invisible, but do really cool and important things. Her research largely focuses on plant-microbe-microbe interactions and her postdoc projects are on bacterial-fungal interactions, and she is currently investigating which genes are required for a bacterium to live inside of a fungus, a microbe within a microbe!

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CIRTL

CIRTL teams up with Writing Across the Curriculum

Feb. 1, 2021

As part of a larger effort to bring the teaching of writing to diverse audiences across campus, CIRTL has teamed up with UArizona’s Writing Across the Curriculum initiative and the award-winning Foundations Writing Program to offer new faculty learning communities (FLCs) and develop graduate-level courses specifically focused on writing pedagogy.

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On Our Own Time - Our Own Winner Again!

Jan. 28, 2021

Bailey Williams, age 16 and family of Cindy Williams in the Office of the Registrar, took the Art Education Award in the university's "On Our Own Time" art show.  Bailey continues to dazzle us with her photography, this year with Lanterns.  Congratulations Bailey! 

List of all winners
Lanterns by Bailey Williams

CIRTL Learning through Diversity by Frans Tax

Jan. 25, 2021

CIRTL’s philosophy is based on the principle that excellence and diversity are interconnected, and CIRTL’s goal is to promote equitable learning experiences for all students. From my perspective, one of the stellar aspects of the CIRTL training is their emphasis on “Learning-through-Diversity”.

Read more about Frans Tax's Perspective on Learning-through-Diversity
Dr. Frans Tax

CIRTL Evidence-based teaching and grad student preparation get a boost

Jan. 22, 2021

Membership in the CIRTL national network enables the University to better prepare grad students for their future careers in academia.

Read the full article at UA@Work

CIRTL Member Spotlight - Steven Petritis

Jan. 17, 2021

Steven Petritis graduated with his B.A. in chemistry from Grinnell College and is now a sixth-year chemistry Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Steven is also working towards his Certificate in College Teaching with the Office of Instruction and Assessment and has been an active Faculty Learning Community participant for the past two years.

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CIRTL Steven Petritis

CIRTL Diversifies Faculty Learning Communities

Jan. 15, 2021

CIRTL has partnered with Academic Affairs to develop a range of new Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) this year with our CIRTL members in mind. FLCs start at the beginning of every semester and meet every other week for five or six sessions, focus on bringing together diverse participants to engage in informal conversations about teaching and learning.

Read more about CIRTL and FLC from Sarah Grace
Sarah Grace