Prof. Dev. Opp - STEM Teaching MOOC (massive open online course) begins 10/6

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

Forwarded information from Leann Dobranski, Assistant Director, Teaching 
& Learning Laboratory (leann at mit.edu) for

"graduate students and postdocs who may be interested in developing 
their teaching skills/knowledge through participation in an online 
course this fall titled, /An Introduction to Evidenced-Based 
Undergraduate STEM Teaching. /Registration is now open through Coursera 
(see link below) and the course begins on October 6^th ."

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Dear Graduate Students and Postdocs:

_MOOC on STEM Teaching (online course)_

We'd like to announce an exciting opportunity taking place this fall. 
/An Introduction to Evidenced-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching/, an 
open, online course for those preparing for future faculty and higher 
education teaching careers in science, technology, engineering and 
mathematics is being offered by our colleagues in the Center for the 
Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) Network. The 
online course runs for 7 weeks from Oct. 6 -- Nov. 23. Detailed course 
description and registration information can be found here: 
https://www.coursera.org/course/stemteaching. *_NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN MIT 
COURSE_*.  Course registration and management occurs through Coursera.

_MOOC Supported Local Learning Community (on-campus discussion group for 
online course participants)_

MIT's Teaching and Learning Lab will be facilitating a local learning 
community around this course for those wishing to deepen their 
experience through individual and small group active learning exercises. 
The learning community will meet on campus from 11:30am-1:00pm every 
Wednesday for the duration of the online course. Learning community 
discussions will focus on online content presented in the previous week. 
The first meeting will take place on Wed, Oct. 15 and the last meeting 
will take place on Wed, Nov. 26. In order to have rich and continuing 
discussions on teaching and learning, we ask that learning community 
*registrants commit to regularly attending the Wednesday sessions**. If 
you are interested in joining the MIT local learning community, please 
complete the online registration form: 
http://tll.mit.edu/registration-mooc-supported-local-learning-community. 
The size of the learning community is limited. Participants will be 
accepted on a first come, first served basis.

*While participants in the online course can acquire a "Statement of 
Accomplishment" from Coursera, there is no 
documentation/award/certificate for participation in the MIT local 
learning community.

If you have questions about joining the local learning community, please 
contact Leann Dobranski (leann at mit.edu <mailto:leann at mit.edu>).

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Leann Dobranski

Assistant Director, Teaching & Learning Laboratory

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(617) 253-3371

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