Center for Teaching Excellence

Forming a Clear Path to Success

For Summer 2020, Anne planned a fully asynchronous online version of her cross-listed course Women Writers. This summer course is a great example of innovation and creativity in translating the learning experience that her students usually had in person to an online, asynchronous, accelerated learning environment.

Forming a Clear Path to Success

Faculty Honored with 2021 Garnet Apple Innovative Teaching Award

The Garnet Apple Award for Teaching Innovation honors the University of South Carolina’s most exceptional faculty who demonstrate an ongoing commitment to best teaching practices and an ongoing record of developing innovative strategies to enhance student learning in their courses. Six recipients received this year’s award and are to be commended for their accomplishments.

Faculty Honored with 2021 Garnet Apple Innovative Teaching Award

Diversity and Inclusive Excellence Grant: Fostering a Better Carolina

In support of the development of innovative courses that explore issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, are community-engaged, and that are rooted in culturally responsive pedagogy and equity-mindedness, the Center for Teaching Excellence is offering Diversity and Inclusive Excellence Grants for the development of new courses that focus on historically marginalized populations, are intersectional, and/or expand curricular capacity for inclusive excellence.

Diversity and Inclusive Excellence Grant: Fostering a Better Carolina

Fostering Connections in Online Teaching

In Fall 2018, Jacob Rivers taught in a 100% asynchronous instructional method for the first time. Using the resources at the Center for Teaching Excellence and support from CTE Instructional Designer Gloria Washington, he designed, developed, and taught ENGL 101. With the design and development of ENGL 101, Rivers made sure that his course was as engaging and rigorous as his face-to-face version of the same course.

Fostering Connections in Online Teaching

Carolina Online Learning and Teaching: Promoting Professional Development and Better Teaching

The Carolina Online Learning and Teaching (COLT) Certificate of Completion program is designed to provide faculty with the foundations for teaching either in online, blended or hybrid formats.

Carolina Online Learning and Teaching: Promoting Professional Development and Better Teaching

The Master Class Series

The Master Class Series is designed to bring faculty and instructors together who are interested in exploring ways to advance their teaching or learning new methods in a specific area. The Master Class is led by a “Master Instructor” who has been identified as an expert on the topic.

The Master Class Series

The Hyflex Model- An Effective Approach to Teaching with Numerous Modalities

In the Hybrid-Flexible (HyFlex) model for course delivery, faculty teach a class in multiple modalities simultaneously: face-to-face, online synchronous, and online asynchronous. The HyFlex Course Delivery: A Practical Guide resource is designed to provide faculty with recommendations on how to navigate this model in a simple and efficient manner while creating an equitable learning environment for everyone.

The Hyflex Model- An Effective Approach to Teaching with Numerous Modalities

Adapting Large Undergraduate Courses

There are multiple ways to adapt large enrollment classes to provide safety and social distancing. All large course delivery models will differ in effectiveness, feasibility, and implementation options depending on the type of course and pedagogy style being used. Learn how to start and what steps to take on our Adapting Large Undergraduate Courses website.

Adapting Large Undergraduate Courses

Virtual Reality in a Changing World

In these unprecedented times, many have been forced to adapt or expand their ways of teaching. This period of change can be used to explore areas of teaching that one has never ventured into. The world of virtual reality has become increasingly popular and could serve as an engaging and informative tool to utilize in online courses and remote settings.

Virtual Reality in a Changing World

Creating a Home Video Studio

The transition to remote teaching has forced many of us to host classes and meetings, and to record classes at home. Here are some simple tips that can improve the quality of your presentation so that your students and colleagues will be more focused on what you say than on where you are.

Creating a Home Video Studio

The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), supports the development of innovative courses that explore issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, are community-engaged, and that are rooted in culturally responsive pedagogy and equity-mindedness.

We invite full-time faculty to submit proposals for Diversity and Inclusive Excellence Curriculum Grants to develop new courses that focus on historically marginalized populations, are intersectional, and/or expand curricular capacity for inclusive excellence.

Challenge the conventional. Create the exceptional. No Limits.