Find out about teaching innovations taking place around Grounds, as several recipients of University Teaching Initiative grants share the challenges they faced and their successes in implementing new technologies, training programs, and courses. Whether you have the germ of an idea for your own project or would simply like to find more good teaching ideas, please plan to join us. UTI grants for projects costing up to $5,000 are available for 2000-01.

To implement a program developed by the Faculty Senate, with the support of the Teaching Resource Center, the Provost has committed $300,000 over three years to support teaching initiatives proposed by U.Va. faculty. The UTI Forum highlights the variety of innovative projects supported by this year’s grants.

The Forum is open to all, and faculty who are considering making proposals for next year’s competition are especially encouraged to attend. For more information about the Forum, contact the Teaching Resource Center at 982-2815 or trc-uva@virginia.edu.

Patricia H. Werhane, Chair-Elect, Faculty Senate, Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics, Darden School of Business

Marva Barnett, Director, Teaching Resource Center

 

David Luebke, Computer Science

Stephen Macko, Tom O’Donnell, and Peter Yanik, Environmental Sciences

John O'Connell and T.C. Scott, Chemical Engineering

Kathy Poole and Adriane Fowler, Architecture

Holly Shulman, Women’s Studies

Martha Snell, Janet Allaire, and Sarah Molnar, Education

Gang Tao and Avinash Taware, Electrical Engineering;

Gweneth West, Drama.

Brian Balogh, History

Fred Diehl, Biology

Garrick Louis, Systems Engineering

Michael Thomas, Religious Studies.

What 1998 participants said they found valuable about the UTI Forum:

• Opportunities to share experiences with other classroom teachers
• I found the Forum to be a good chance for departments to share ideas.
• New ideas about technological innovation in instruction.
• I found the presentations rich and thoughtful.
• Breadth of ideas and projects presented.
• Simply learning what other people are doing, and hearing about the sorts of problems they've encountered. I found it very interesting to hear the potential pitfalls or constraints that increased use of technology might have for instruction.
• This would be a inspiration for those considering making a University Teaching Initiative proposal.