Curricular Development – Crosland Center for Teaching & Learning https://ctl.davidson.edu Everything Else You Need to Succeed at Davidson Fri, 24 Sep 2021 18:57:04 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6 Erland Stevens – Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc. https://ctl.davidson.edu/faculty/erland-stevens-novartis-institutes-for-biomedical-research-inc/ Fri, 24 Sep 2021 18:57:02 +0000 https://ctl.davidson.edu/?p=586
  • Professor of Chemistry, Erland Stevens with Natalia Spitha ’16.

James G. Martin Professor of Chemistry, Erland Stevens has received funding from Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc. (NIBR).

The collaboration between Professor Stevens and NIBR will produce a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in drug discovery for use by biomedical and pharma personnel worldwide. The $40,000 award will be used to create instructional videos, printable lecture summaries, problem sets, lab activities built upon online tools and interviews with pharma professionals. The MOOC will present up to-date information on how drugs are safely and effectively developed for the treatment and prevention of disease, bridging an important gap by updating the training of chemists and biologists in drug discovery. The online delivery provides universal access in a concise and self-paced manner that adapts to the busy schedules of advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professional scientists seeking to expand their knowledge in drug discovery. 

Previous online courses produced by Professor Stevens include Drug Discovery & Medicinal Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry: The Molecular Basis of Drug Discovery, on edX.  

]]> Graham Bullock and Daniel Layman – Associated Colleges of the South Grant https://ctl.davidson.edu/faculty/graham-bullock-and-daniel-layman-associated-colleges-of-the-south-grant/ Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:50:02 +0000 https://ctl.davidson.edu/?p=570 Associate Professor of Political Science, Graham Bullock and Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Daniel Layman have been awarded an Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) / Mellon Faculty Development Grant for their project “The Deliberative Pedagogy (DeeP) Collaborative: Integrating Democratic Deliberation into the Classroom.”

The project invites collaboration from faculty across ACS member institutions and academic divisions to “create opportunities in their courses for students to productively engage with one another on difficult and contentious issues facing our society.” Professors Bullock and Layman will offer a year-long program of collaborative activities to guide participating faculty in developing “deliberation-involved” courses, activities and learning outcomes. The DeeP Collaborative includes participants from ACS member schools: Furman University, Rollins College, Spelman College, Morehouse College and Southwestern University.  

The Associated Colleges of the South “strengthens and showcases liberal arts education through collaboration’ sponsoring professional and curricular development across it’s sixteen member institutions.” Read more about Davidson’s Deliberative Citizenship Initiative (DCI), funded by The Duke Endowment, here.

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