The dashboard below summarizes future faculty engagement in and member impact on The CIRTL Network’s teaching and professional development work over the years.
Engagement. CIRTL provides teaching and professional development programs to thousands of participants every year, at each member university and online for the entire network. As participants – grad students, postdocs, early career faculty, and more – work through our programming, they can earn certificates that recognize their growth in teaching and learning. Teaching-as-research projects are a cornerstone of this growth: participants explore a specific question about teaching and learning, design and implement some sort of classroom-based intervention to test that question, and reflect on how they might adjust their teaching practices based on what the results show.
Impact. This engagement is possible because faculty and staff from our member institutions teach courses, workshops, events, and teaching institutes as a service to the network. They do this locally, on their own campuses, and online, for our Network-wide (or “cross-Network”) audience. You can read more about current and upcoming cross-Network programs on our “Courses & Events” page, and you can read about past cross-Network programs in our annual reports: what we teach, who our participants are, what they say in evaluations, and more.
Campus-level data. Each individual member institution can also access their own institutional dashboard, where they can view their data and compare it to similar members based on length of membership, graduate student body size, and where CIRTL operates from. Those are just some of the factors that might affect engagement and impact. Other factors might be quantifiable with additional data collection, like staffing levels and budgets, while some aren’t, like campus culture around teaching and learning. CIRTL staff will work with member institutions to ensure we are collecting and sharing data that matters.