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The mission of the Bryant University Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is to promote a campus culture that values teaching and learning excellence. The CTL provides the Bryant community with research-based resources, programs, and support which honor the diversity of learning, teaching, and disciplinary styles.

Center Services include:

  • Individual consultation
  • Workshops
  • Seminars
  • Teaching Fellows Programs
  • Teaching and Learning Library
  • Blackboard support

Teaching with Slates Faculty Fellows Program

The Center for Teaching & Learning, Academic Computing, The Krupp Library, and the Center for Program Innovation are excited to announce the following project awards for the Teaching with Slates Faculty Fellows Program:

Tammy Duxbury (Accounting)

Chris Reid (Science & Technology)

Elaine Notarantonio (Marketing)

Terri Hassler (English & Cultural Studies)

Allison Butler (Applied Psychology)

Brian Blais (Science & Technology)

Elisabetta Miscuraca (Modern Languages)

Modern Languages Department -- Patricia Gomez, Heather Moon, and Tony Houston

 

Our team was very impressed by both the scope of each of these projects and their collective commitment to assessing the impact of slate use on student learning, as well as their strong plans for making public the results of their projects. The overall quality of the proposals and the number of slates requested allowed us to support more projects than we anticipated. We are excited about the prospect of learning more about the utility and impact of the slates across a variety of settings. We very much look forward to working with all of the award winners in the development of their projects.

We want to thank everyone who participated in the Teaching with Slates Faculty Fellows Program. Your commitment and experimentation with the devices has already taught us a great deal about the potential uses of the slates. We look forward to continuing to learn from all program participants in the coming months. Toward that end, we plan to offer 3-4 follow-up sessions during the spring semester focusing on additional teaching and learning possibilities for the slates. Keep an eye out for invitations early in the spring semester.

 

Faculty Spotlight

Alex Perullo, Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology and African studies in Bryant's College of Arts and Sciences, has received a $6,000 grant from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities to create the African Digital Archive, an interactive resource containing images, interviews, videos and curriculum materials about African people who have immigrated to Rhode Island.

The archive is an outgrowth of the African Studies Workshops co-sponsored since 2007 by Bryant University and the African Alliance of Rhode Island. The annual workshops have served as a means to create conversations among Africans living in Rhode Island, university students, and the public.

 

 

Professors Chris Roethlein and John Visich won the case competition award at the November 2011 meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute. Their case “Narragansett Brewing Company: The Rebirth of a Brand” focused on supply chain and operations management issues faced by the rapidly growing Narragansett Brewing Company, headquartered in Providence. Roethlein and Visich are both Associate Professors in the Manaement Department of the College of Business, where they both teach courses in operations management and supply chain management. 

The case originated from a directed study that Roethlein and Visich did with 4 graduate students in the fall of 2009. From the student’s report Roethlein and Visich crafted a case study and developed a teaching note. The case has been used at Bryant for several classes, including the graduate core Operations Management class (MBA 526) and an undergraduate senior elective class in Process Analysis and Improvement. The case has been well received by the students who liked the mix of quantitative and qualitative analysis, and felt that the information in the case was useful and relevant. 

One of the unique aspects of the Narragansett case is that it can be co-taught with members from various business functions.  In developing their presentation, Roethlein and Visich sought input from several of their colleagues in the College of Business on how they would teach the case from the perspective of their respective field.  Then they did a dry run of their presentation at a faculty Brown Bag and based on feedback from their peers they refined / fine-tuned the presentation.

 

 

Allison ButlerDr. Allison Butler has published her article “Charter Schools Chart the Course for Education Reform.” The essay appears in a subscription-based ABC-CLIO “Issues” database in the section called “Enduring Questions Feature on Public Education.” In the article, Dr. Butler suggests that charter schools provide an essential vehicle for educational leaders to redefine schooling in America. The unique “autonomy in exchange for accountability” model affords charter schools the ability to serve as educational laboratories that empower families, develop best practices, and most importantly, improve learning outcomes for the children who attend them and even those in neighboring public schools. According to Dr. Butler, maintaining rigorous accountability standards, closing charter schools that do not meet the goals established in their charters, and focusing on the best practices and models that are employed in the top tier of charters are essential ingredients for the success of the charter school movement. 

 

 

Rich Holtzman has published an article in the July 2011 Transformative Dialogues: teaching and learning eJournal titled "Experiential Learning in Washington, D.C.: A Study of Student Motivations and Expectations"