Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence
- Accessible Education Workshop Series
AEC Brown Bag Discussion
Accommodations and Course Accessibility can sometimes seem mysterious. Join us in October for a series of talks designed to inform, empower, and reduce the fear factor around course access and accommodations. This series is being offered virtually this year on TEAMS. Feel free to bring your coffee, your lunch, and your questions and we’ll see you in October.
Teaching & Learning
As noted in the University’s strategic plan “Tech Tomorrow,” Tennessee Tech is committed to academic excellence as one of our core principles. We expect and produce high academic achievement, foster collaboration, exemplify integrity and inspire creativity and realized potential for the entire campus community. This includes promoting a community of lifelong learning that supports faculty inside and outside the classroom. Resources directed to this effort include:
- » Course and Program Development
The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning offers one-on-one course development consultations, as well as program development options. Please contact your college or department's instructional designer for more information.
- » Online Education
- » Instructional Design and Learning Technologies
- » Tech Teaches Series
- » Open Education Resources (OER)
- » Service Learning
Service Learning
A teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and to strengthen communities. Curriculum includes structured field-based "experiential learning" alongside community partners, which reinforces course learning outcomes.
Learn more about Service Learning at Tennessee Tech.
Tech Tomorrow: Education for Life
The new members of the Tech Tomorrow Strategic Planning Team have been selected and Lenly Weathers, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering, has been named the faculty leader for the Tech Tomorrow Education for Life goal.
“As the team leader for Education for Life, I am eager to reach out to students, faculty, staff and administrators to promote the priorities under this facet of Tech Tomorrow by improving current practices or creating new ones,” Weathers said. “This will mean continuing to evolve a Tech-unique general education curriculum to provide the foundation for technologically adept, analytically capable, career-ready graduates. Expanding the diversity of our student population is also a priority of Education for Life, as is the related goal of developing each student’s global awareness in our increasingly interconnected, global society.”
The previous leader for this goal was Ed Lisic, professor of chemistry in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Excellence in Teaching & Learning
Dr. Hannah Upole and Dr. Sam Narimetla are the recipients of the 2021-2022 Outstanding Faculty Award in Teaching
Dr. Susan Moynihan and Dr. Wendy Cook-Mucci are the recipients of the 2021-2022 General Education Award for Outstanding Teaching
Ms. Jeanne Schmitzer is the recipient of the 2021-2022 Excellence in Course Design Award
Dr. Mazen Hussein is the recipient of the 2021-2022 Faculty Excellence in Online Teaching Award
Dr. Melissa Geist is the recipient of the 2021-2022 Distinguished Service Learning Award
LinkedIn Learning Resources
LinkedIn Learning is a service available to all Tennessee Tech faculty, staff, and students. LinkedIn Learning offers a wide variety of professional development resources. Below you will find a list of LinkedIn Learning resources specifically related to teaching and learning.
