Recent Entries
You’ll find the latest from the Adams Center staff here at the Adams Blog. The content varies, but the subject is always the same: teaching and learning.
Fall Reading Groups
We will be offering a wide variety of reading groups this semester. Stop by the Adams Center to pick up a copy of the book(s): Make it Stick: The Challenge of Lifelong Learning & Self-Improvement Led by Bob McKelvain September 3 September 17 October 1...
Faculty Fusion 2014: Discover
Let’s kick off another great academic year with Faculty Fusion, August 19, 2014. Save the date and register for activities at http://www.acu.edu/fusion or by calling the Adams Center at 325-674-2455. Registering saves your spot in each session and allows us to...
How to Create A Course Calendar
Written by the Instructional Design Team You probably enjoy the convenience of Google Calendars which give you alerts to events and activities to keep you organized. You could create the same calendars for courses. Course calendars will automatically be pushed...
Flipping the Classroom with Mark & Laura Phillips
What are you doing? We have partially or completely flipped classes that we teach so that students receive course content before they come to class through readings, videos, podcasts, powerpoints, etc. Class time can then be spent answering questions, working...
Choose Your Own Adventure
Written by the Instructional Design Team Choose Your Own Adventure. Sounds fun, doesn't it? During one of our recent “Best Practices” sessions, Dr. Matthew Dodd, assistant professor in the Duncum Center for Conflict Resolution demonstrated a teaching approach he...
Collaborative Team Translation
Written by the Instructional Design Team We recently invited a number of our faculty members to showcase their online course/course components during one of our “Best Practices for Online Teaching” workshops. Dr. Melinda Thompson (Assistant Professor and Director of...
Designing and Analyzing Qualitative Research Seminar
Interested in designing a qualitative research project? Needing a refresher on analyzing qualitative data? Wanting to advise students who are conducting qualitative research? What: Designing and Analyzing Qualitative Research Where: Adams Center When: May 15,...
In Case You Missed It – CHARIS Conversations
If you missed the CHARIS Conversations on March 3rd & April 10th, don’t worry! You can watch the full podcasts of both sessions here. March 3rd: Pedagogy in the Stone-Campbell Movement: Implications of Religious Heritage for University Teaching Practices John Mark...
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