Teaching & Learning center

At the University of Mississippi, COLT will sponsor a team of tenure-stream faculty (with joint appointments in traditional academic departments).

Faculty sponsored by COLT will develop, execute, and document teaching projects rooted in Open Educational Resources and Practices, in partnership with student learners, as alternatives to traditional courses. Participants will locate emerging resources, and craft a semester-long student experience which will yield student learning outcomes equivalent to a course in the individual faculty member’s discipline. Faculty will contribute to and ensure the reliability of the sources, as well as the rigor and relevance of the project in accordance with their discipline’s pedagogical standards for undergraduate learning.

Each student will author an ePortfolio to demonstrate attainment of the appropriate outcomes for assessment, as well as to articulate the integration of their experience into a lifelong personal learning plan.

The Teaching & Learning center is one of COLT’s two major initiatives, along with the international research network.