I’m facilitating a workshop on learning-through-diversity at the CIRTL Network Forum later today. The workshop is titled “Leveraging Diversity: The Wisdom of Crowds in University Teaching.” Here’s the abstract: Our students bring a rich array of knowledge, skills, experiences, perspectives, interests, and values to our courses. We often recognize the value of leveraging diversity in [...]
I’m giving a talk at the NAIRTL 5th Annual Conference and Galway Symposium on Higher Education today in Galway, Ireland. The talk is a revision of my talk at the Clickers Conference in Houston last week, so parts of the Prezi will look familiar if you’ve seen the Prezi from that earlier talk. But there’s [...]
Last night I led a workshop titled “Leveraging Diversity: The Wisdom of Crowds in University Teaching.” My goal in the workshop was to explore ways to use crowdsourcing in the college classroom to leverage the various kinds of diversity (cultural, cognitive, affective) we see in our students. There are many great resources out there on [...]
Welcome to my home page. I’m Derek Bruff, author of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments (Jossey-Bass, 2009). I’m also acting director at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and a senior lecturer in the Vanderbilt University Department of Mathematics. The views and opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of Vanderbilt University.
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