Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat factors are at play in motivation? Can showing the value of our content increase a student’s motivation? How important is it that students know their instructor is invested in them and their learning? Join Rob and Jared as they chat with Professor Betsy Linnell (a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Cedarville University). Please take this opportunity to fill out our 2025 wrap-up survey. This survey should take 5-10 minutes and your responses are anonymous. If you would like to be entered for the Uncommon Sense Teaching drawing, you can share your name and email address at the end of the survey. Even if you enter the drawing, your survey response will remain anonymous. View a transcript…
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Transform Your Teaching: Flipped Learning, Student Engagement and GAI with Dr. Wes Baker
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow has flipped learning developed over time? What are the best strategies for pushing students towards higher levels of learning? Is there any place for AI in flipped learning? In this episode, Rob and Jared chat with Dr. Wes Baker (former Professor of Communication Arts at Cedarville University from 1977 to 2017). View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Jason Frieling: Wanderings
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwenty-four years. That number represented close to half of my life at the time of my departure from teaching in the Michigan public school system. Twenty of those years were spent as an English teacher at the middle and high school levels, with the last four serving as an instructional technology coach and the district’s virtual academy coordinator. For the past two plus years, I have had the distinct pleasure of first working for Cedarville’s Continuing Education as well as Assessment and Accreditation departments and now an instructional designer for the Center for Teaching and Learning. While it may seem that I had planned my career…
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Introducing CTL’s New Project Coordinator: Ryan Liming
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy name is Ryan Liming, and I’m a new member of the Center for Teaching and Learning team. In my role as the Project Coordinator, I assist our team in starting, maintaining, and finishing projects. I am also here to support our faculty and staff in any way that I am able. Our students need a Christ-centered education, and you as faculty are on the front lines of that battle. While you continue to serve students through educating them in a particular area of study, discipling them as followers of Christ, and assisting in their development of a Biblical worldview, allow us at the CTL to serve you. Please reach out to us…