Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship
The Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) is Georgetown’s center for teaching excellence, technology, innovation, assessment, learning analytics, and research.
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Digital Research and Innovation 
Learning, Equity, Access, and Pedagogy (LEAP)
Georgetown’s Learning, Equity, Access, and Pedagogy Initiative, or LEAP, is a new program that supports academic units’ strategic planning to examine and strengthen the climate, content, and pedagogy of their teaching and learning environments, toward the goal of building and sustaining inclusive learning experiences for their students. CNDLS and other campus units are here to help you in this process.
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Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship
Our Podcast
“What We're Learning About Learning” is a podcast about teaching and learning in higher education. Through this resource, we hope to expand and share more broadly the conversations we’re having with students, faculty, and staff, and throw light on some of the most important issues and developments in higher education today.
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Learning, Equity, Access, and Pedagogy (LEAP)
Inclusive Pedagogy Toolkit
This extensive new resource fleshes out 21 key strategies for making classrooms inclusive, equitable, and meaningful, laying concrete ways to implement the strategies as well as the key scholarship behind them.
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Digital Research and Innovation
This program offers faculty the opportunity to enhance research with digital tools and methodologies; experiment with emerging technologies; and develop new modes of inquiry, scholarship, and creative production.
Submit a digital scholarly project proposal by November 14 to get support from CNDLS and the Library with your research project.
Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship
Inclusive Pedagogy Toolkit
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Upcoming Events
CNDLS offers multiple events and workshops on topics like Inclusive Pedagogy, use of technology in teaching, etc. For a full list of events please review the event calendar.
FULL CALENDAROct 6
Apprenticeship in Teaching Program: Book Club 2:4
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Join us for our book club discussion! This semester's book is Teaching Matters: A Guide for Graduate Students by Aeron Haynie and Stephanie Spong.This book club is being offered as part of the Apprenticeship in Teaching (AT) Program, designed for graduate students. Attend 3 out of the 4 book club sessions to earn one elective workshop credit in the AT Program.
Oct 14
Apprenticeship in Teaching Program: Effective Classroom Interaction
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
This workshop covers various types of classroom interaction including lecture, discussion, and other activities that can be used in both small and large classes. Principles and practices of active learning are discussed, with an overall emphasis on techniques for student participation.This workshop is being offered as part of the Apprenticeship in Teaching Program, designed for graduate students.
Oct 14
Faculty Book Club
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Join us in reading Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James Lang in our fall book club. We plan to facilitate the book club over four consecutive Friday afternoons, from 2-3pm on Zoom (Oct 14, 21, 28, and Nov 4). CNDLS will purchase a book for the first 15 committed registrants, so we kindly request that if you are interested in a book that you do your best to commit to all four virtual sessions. We'll reach out to you with meeting details including which chapters to read and how to join our Zoom meeting after you sign up.As always, if you have any questions you can reach out to us at cndls@georgetown.edu.
