Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence (CTLE)
The mission of the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (CTLE) at Benedictine University is to foster, recognize, and support excellence in teaching and learning among faculty and instructors across campus and beyond. Thus, the goals of the CTLE include providing dialogue and professional development opportunities in areas of curricular design, development, teaching methods, and assessment for fostering reflective critiques, informed practice, scholarly investigations into teaching practices, accountability to students and public, and scholarly works. The CTLE’s aims to support effective teaching and learning practices that promote lifelong learning and critical reflection in students, faculty, and staff.
Services
To achieve these goals, the activities of the Center include:
- Presenting workshops on topics, including:
- Generative AI and teaching
- Universal Design
- Effective use of technology in the classroom
- New instructional tools for improving student learning
- Fostering Student Engagement
- Connecting instructors with support services for teaching and learning, including:
- D2L support
- Instructional Design support
- Compiling a library of teaching and learning resources for instructors
- Facilitating evaluation of pedagogical practices
Team Leaders
- Carolyn Liesen, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, [email protected]
- Huma Ghani, CTLE Coordinator, [email protected]
- Zubair Amir, Ph.D., URSA Coordinator, [email protected]
- Andrew Wig, Ph.D., IDEA Campus Director, [email protected]
- Manu Kaur, Ph.D., Director of New Faculty Mentoring Program, [email protected]
CTLE Advisory
Committee
- Carolyn Liesen, Director of the CTLE, Assistant Professor of Psychology, [email protected]
- Huma Ghani, CTLE Coordinator, [email protected]
- Joy Matteson, University Librarian, [email protected]
- Cheryl Heinz, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, [email protected]
- Krishna Bhagat, Assistant Professor of Public Health (MPH), [email protected]
- Steven Burgess, Associate Professor of Philosophy, [email protected]
- Robert Rebman, Assistant Professor of Business, [email protected]