Come Work With the Learning Experience Design Team at CETL!
GSU’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) is looking for a passionate designer to liaison with our College of Law and work exclusively on online and hybrid law programs. The candidate who gets the job will be a member of CETL’s Learning...
Constrained Writing Approaches To Creativity and Design
I often wondered when I cursed, Often feared where I would be— Wondered where she’d yield her love, When I yield, so will she. I would her will be pitied! Cursed be love! She pitied me … – Lewis Carroll Do you notice anything…odd about the...
Speculating with Speculative Design
Here at CETL, the Instructional Design team really likes to experiment. For those of you who know us, this probably doesn’t come as a complete surprise. We do have one of the most playful spaces on campus. And we take our play seriously. Last year, we...
Reassessing your Assessment Strategy
First of all: Happy Fall Semester 2018 from Sarah and Will! Now that you’re a couple of weeks in, you might feel some grading fatigue setting in. As such, this is a good time to switch all of your skill-building assessments to auto-graded multiple choice quizzes in...
Design Reflection: Fostering a (More) Socially-Just, Rigorous, and Caring Community in a 130 Student, Fully-Online SOCI 1101 Course
Accolades and Congratulations Dear, dear CETL blog readers: I think that you should all join me in a big round of applause for Dr. Jung Ha Kim. Not only did she just finish teaching her first ever online course, but she also graciously, carefully, and caringly guided...
Spotlight on Tiffany Green-Abdullah, Manager of Learning Community Development
Meet Tiffany. Her secret powers include super stealth and being in 8 places at once. Ok, not really but she is a super connecter that knows those folks…and those folks…and those folks! So what does the Learning Community...
So You Want To Start a New Program!
So you’ve decided to start a new program here at GSU. Congratulations – that’s super exciting! Except: You soon realize that starting a program is a multi-pronged process starring a smorgasbord of people, policies, contexts, concerns, and excitements. This is...
Spotlight on Chad Marchong, Manager of Learning Analytics
Is Chad your friend? If not, he really should be. Not only is he a gentleman and a scholar, but those of us on the Instructional Design team also deemed Chad our collective best friend long ago. This holds for both his previous incarnation as Manager of Learning...
Affordable Learning Georgia Grant: Round Eleven
Have you ever felt like chucking your always out-of-date, expensive, and totally non-remixable (under penalty of law) textbook from the eternally-spalling Courtland Street Bridge? Now’s your chance! The USG’s Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) initiative is...
Help: I’m not ready to teach this online class and the semester is starting TODAY!
Sometimes, departmental teaching schedules get a little…interesting. Instructors sometimes quit right before (or during) the semester. Faculty may be asked to take on additional courses during the Drop/Add period to meet unexpected demand. Class format is...
Post/human Approaches to Design and Teaching?
Post/human Approaches to Design and Teaching? Lately, it seems like you can’t turn a corner without being smacked in the face by the specter of posthumanism. As with other educational philosophy trends of yore (I’m looking at you, constructivism) posthumanism is the...
Clash and Flow: Pedagogy and Street Art
On December 2, 2016 a group of instructional designers and graduate students hopped on the Atlanta Streetcar at Hurt Park for the first ever guerilla Art in the Wild: StreetArt Tour in the Edgewood district. The goal of this CETL-hosted trip was to encourage educators...
Inspired by Design: Art In the Wild StreetArt Tour
When we think about designing classes we tend to think about controlling these experiences. What if we flip the script, however, and also think about disorder? How can we use chaos (both ordered and disordered) in our course designs? For our fourth and final Inspired...
Inspired by Design: Creating Local, Contextual Experiences: Atlanta History Center
So let’s say that you teach an awesome undergraduate course at GSU. Your students are doing well, your evaluations are decent, and your Dean is pretty happy with your performance. However, you still have a small, persistent itch in the back of your mind: What if I...Subscribe by Email
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