Thank you for encouraging students to complete the Student Rating of Instruction Survey (SRIS). We want to provide you with a few suggestions to consider to increase response rates with your students: Research and best practice consistently show that the most significant factor in increasing participation in online student rating surveys is for faculty to express and demonstrate how the results are essential and used in making meaningful course change(s). The next most influential...
Your feedback matters! We value your feedback and invite you to complete your Spring Term 2024 course evaluations. The survey period is now open, closing on April 29. Every survey is confidential, and your thoughtful responses regarding the instructional aspects of the course provide faculty with insights about course effectiveness and give insight into future improvements for the course and programs. Your instructor may set aside time in class to complete the surveys. Any device...
The Objective Selection Form (OSF) opened March 14 for the spring 2024 semester through April 29. The OSF allows faculty to identify targeted learning objectives to measure teaching effectiveness and faculty response to the OSF drives summative results on the Student Rating of Instruction Survey (SRIS). The primary indicator of teaching effectiveness is how well students rate their progress on learning objectives that faculty mark as important or essential on the OSF. Since every course...
The Objective Selection Form (OSF) opens today, March 14, for the Spring 2024 semester through April 29. The OSF allows faculty to identify targeted learning objectives to measure teaching effectiveness and faculty response to the OSF drives summative results on the Student Rating of Instruction Survey (SRIS). The primary indicator of teaching effectiveness is how well students rate their progress on learning objectives that faculty mark as important or essential on the OSF. Since...
Are you looking to learn more about AI and teaching in academia? If so, please consider the Governor's Teaching Fellows Program (GTF). The Governor’s Teaching Fellows Program, hosted by the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia, invites applications for the 2024 Spring Symposium, “Artificial Intelligence in the Holistic Classroom.” The Spring Symposium will be held May 19-23, 2024, on the UGA campus. The GTF program, established by Gov. Zell Miller,...
For the past year, Dr. Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, associate professor of Music and Faculty Success coordinator, and Dr. Steve Elliott-Gower, associate professor of Political Science, have been busy establishing an extensive database of over 850 grants, fellowships and awards. And that number is expected to grow to over 1,000 by the end of the summer. “It’s not only about creating a website or a database; it’s about creating a culture in which faculty are encouraged and supported as they...
When the university and universities all over the world were grappling with closures and the rapid switch to online teaching—when everyone was reeling from constant change, fear and the threat of chaos—Jim Berger’s phone rang. People needed answers. They looked to him and his team at Georgia College’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) for decisions that would ultimately impact every faculty member and student on campus. It had to be done right. And it had to be done fast. “A...
