PTF Impacts
Provost's Teaching Fellows have made lasting impacts in their departments, colleges and schools, all of the University of Texas, and even the broader scholarship of teaching and learning. Through both individual initiatives and university-wide programs, PTFs continue to serve as catalysts for positive change and further our campus culture of teaching and learning.
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Teaching as Well Being (UT System)
On April 11, 2024, three Provost's Teaching Fellows presented at the final session of the "Teaching as Wellbeing" mini-conference series, hosted by the UT System Academy of Distinguished Teachers in collaboration with UT System faculty developers. The series served as a monthly think tank about the relationship between teaching, learning, and wellbeing for educators and educational developers across UT system.
The Social Classroom (Chronicle of Higher Education)
PTF Jen Ebbeler was interviewed for this article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about how professors can help their students connect and build relationships in both in-person and virtual classrooms, and explore the impact of student interactions on their learning.
Read the entire article here.
The Perspectives of Three Universities’ Building Information Modeling Course Development (ASEE)
PTF Fernanda Leite co-presented this paper at the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Virtual Annual Conference in June 2020.
BIM for Design Coordination: A Virtual Design and Construction Guide for Designers, General Contractors, and MEP Subcontractors
PTF Fernanda Leite authored the academic text BIM for Design Coordination: A Virtual Design and Construction Guide for Designers, General Contractors, and MEP Subcontractors. Leite's book includes a chapter specifically about teaching Building Information Modeling (BIM) in college courses titled "BIM Teaching Considerations," which is directly related to the work done in her PTF Initiative.
View the chapter here, or read the summary below.
Integrating an Architectural Engineering Undergraduate Program with Building Information Modeling (Journal of Architectural Engineering)
PTF Fernanda Leite co-authored this article in the Journal of Architectural Engineering. The article examines the integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) into an undergraduate Architectural Engineering course, which was a core component of Leite's PTF Initiative.
Read the complete paper here, or find the abstract below.
Entrepreneurship Minor, McCombs School of Business
As part of his PTF Initiative, Luis Martins founded the Entrepreneurship Minor within the McCombs School's Rosenthal Department of Management. The Entrepreneurship Minor is available to all undergraduate students at UT Austin, and develops entrepreneurial mindsets and skillsets that equip students to have impact on organizations and society as startup founders or as employees in established organizations.
Active Learning at Scale: Lessons from General Chemistry (National Chemistry Education Meeting)
In 2016 Cythia LaBrake presented about her PTF Initiative in a poster session of the National Chemistry Education Meeting. Her presentation was titled "Active Learning at Scale: Lessons from General Chemistry."
View the poster in larger format here.