Adaptive Course Design Institute
Do you want to learn more about how to make your course more flexible, engaging, and equitable for different teaching and learning contexts? Register for the CTE’s Self-Paced Adaptive Course Design Institute.
Who is it for?
The Self-Paced Adaptive Course Design Institute is designed for Rice instructors who plan on teaching their courses in-person, remotely, and/or in a dual-learning mode of delivery. The Institute is open to all Rice instructors from all academic disciplines.
What is it?
The Self-Paced Adaptive Course Design Institute provides instructors with access to a Canvas course with readings, resources, and planning activities to help you refine and revise your course materials for remote, asynchronous, and face-to-face students. By the end of the Self-Paced Adaptive Course Design Institute, participants will be able to:
- Articulate their approach to a dual-learning, online, and/or in-person course format
- Develop a course design that is adaptable to the changing context of teaching and learning
- Apply the principles of backward design to make their course flexible, equitable, and learner-centered
- Modify, design, or re-design learning activities and assessments that provide equitable and equivalent learning experiences for a) in-person classes under social-distancing conditions and b) students in synchronous and asynchronous online delivery modes
- Identify ways of effectively organizing an adaptive course and of managing course administration
The materials and activities can be accessed at any time allowing instructors to work at their own pace. You can register for and start the self-paced Institute at any time.
If you have any questions please contact us at cte@rice.edu.
TA Training
At Rice University, teaching assistants (TAs) play an important role in the success of many of the university’s courses. Serving as a teaching assistant provides many benefits to the students and faculty as well as the graduate student taking on this role. Directly assisting and working with undergraduates and one’s peers brings with it many rewards in addition to many responsibilities. The CTE’s Teaching Assistant training is designed to provide students who are currently TAs or plan to be TAs in the future with the basic knowledge of institutional laws and policies that pertain to their work as TAs. Policies covered in the training include
- Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
- American with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Title IX
- Rice Policy on Amorous Relations
- The Honor Code
The training is hosted online in an asynchronous, self-paced format. Students are welcome to enroll in the training at any time.