Reinert Center Events
Spring Faculty Book Discussion
How Learning Works: 8 Research-based Principles for Smart Teaching
Wednesday, March 19, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Zoom
In their updated second edition, Lovett, Bridges, DiPietro, Ambrose and Norman (2023) use various teaching and learning
scenarios and rich examples to help think through and inform our teaching. The book
applies eight research-based teaching principals in the context of traditional in-person,
online, and hybrid teaching modalities, and participants will discuss how they may
benefit our teaching and student learning.
The first 10 registrants can receive a complimentary copy of the book.
Registration is required
Graduate Student Book Discussion:
10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People
April 10, 12 – 1 pm, Wuller 202
The Reinert Center invites all graduate students to participate in a book discussion
on David Yeager's latest book, "10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People." Yeager
draws on behavioral science and neuroscience to help explain why traditional approaches
to motivation and mentorship often fall short and presents evidence-based strategies
that may help better inform how to engage with our students, and maybe even how we
can articulate our own mentoring needs. This discussion will be particularly valuable
for those teaching or planning to teach at the university level. The first 10 participants
may receive a complimentary copy of the book and, for those enrolled in the Principles
Certificate, this book may be used in the reflection on teaching development included
in their teaching portfolio.
Registration is required
Distance Learning Workshop Series: Technology for Teaching
Multiple dates, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Zoom
The Reinert Center’s Distance Learning Workshop Series is dedicated to exploring innovative, research-based strategies for distance learning. Each semester, the workshop series explores a theme related to distance learning, with guest speakers addressing a topic and participants having space to reflect on a pedagogical strategy, approach, or technique in their distance teaching context.
Our Spring 2025 theme, Technology for Teaching, focuses on four University-supported instructional tools. Each 60-minute virtual (via Zoom) workshop is dedicated to one teaching tool focusing on how it can be harnessed intentionally to enhance student learning. Sessions include an overview of the tool, discussions on its pedagogical uses, and opportunities for participants to explore how it can fit into their own distance teaching practices.
- February 21: Panopto
- March 21: Advanced Canvas tools (Peer review/groups)
- April 25: Ally
This workshop explores Ally as an instructional tool to make course learning materials more accessible. Participants will have space to (re)consider how Ally might be incorporated into the design of a distance course.
Online Courses: Spring 2025
The Reinert Center supports instructors for the full continuum of teaching online including: preparing to teach online for the first time, online course design, assessment of online courses, as well as strategies and techniques for effective online teaching. Below is our current list of full, online course offerings. These courses can be used for credit in our Online University Teaching Skills Certificate or they may be taken by individuals not enrolled in the certificate. To see additional descriptions and details for all our online courses, please visit our Online Courses page. Registration is Required
This one-week course examines productive faculty-student and student-student interaction in online courses. Participants will develop facilitation practices that align with standards outlined in the SLU Online Course Design Rubric, and the federal requirements for "regular and substantive interaction."
Prerequisite: Introduction to Distance Teaching
The Introduction to Online Teaching is a fully-online asynchronous course that provides a pedagogical foundation for Saint Louis University faculty who are new to the online teaching environment. The course provides faculty an opportunity to gain the experience of an online “student” and to experience a fully-online course that has been designed to align with the University’s Online Course Design Rubric while developing a plan for an online course.
This course is a week-long asynchronous experience that will allow participants to intentionally apply a specific process for rubric construction for online courses. This course is open to any university instructor interested in constructing or revising an assignment rubric including but not limited to rubrics for online discussion. By the end of the course, participants will be able to distinguish the differences among analytical, holistic and single point rubrics; discern which rubric type would best suit the intention of their assignments; construct a rubric to apply to the assignment for which it was designed and assess their rubrics with the rubric for rubrics.
Prerequisites: Introduction to Distance Teaching AND Assessing the Online Student
Spring Praxis Workshops
At its most basic meaning, praxis is the combination of theory and practice. As we delve into educational literature, we find a deeper meaning that combines reflection and action. And, as we then connect with Ignatian pedagogy, praxis is the intersection of experience, reflection, and action in teaching and learning contexts. Designed specifically with the objectives of the certificate program in mind, the Reinert Center's Praxis Workshops are interactive sessions during which an expert facilitator designs a learning experience around a particular pedagogical topic that creates the opportunity for participants to explore a new idea, or an established idea in a new way, and reflect on its implications for concrete interactions, approaches, and/or projects for their own specific teaching and learning situations (courses, labs, clinics, etc.) at the university level. While the Praxis workshops are targeted to participants in the Foundations and Priciples Certificates, they are open to all faculty and graduate students.
- March 19, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.: Intercultural Competencies (Wuller 222)
Facilitated by Karla Scott, Communication - April 2, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.: Teaching 1000 Level Courses (Wuller 222)
Facilitated by Nathaniel Rivers, English - April 10, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.: Universal Design Strategies (Zoom)
Facilitated by Eric Royer, Reinert Center