Multimodal Learning
Featured Events
Multimodal Learning and The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning promotes faculty accomplishment and innovation through a few yearly events. Participation in these events can provide evidence of teaching effectiveness, support for research and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Faculty are encouraged to participate, submit or attend these events.
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Faculty Showcase for Innovative Teaching
The Faculty Showcase for Innovative Teaching is an opportunity for faculty to share innovative teaching strategies with each other in a dynamic and festive event. The Faculty Innovator of the Year ($500), Innovative Excellence, and the Best Innovative Flop are awarded at the event.
All submissions will be featured in one of three ways:
- Multimodal Learning will create a video short that highlights the faculty/innovation
- Faculty present a 3-Minute Lightning Round Presentation
- Poster presentation with scheduled poster session discussion
Do you have an innovative teaching strategy or tool that positively impacted student learning outcomes this year? Help us showcase them!
Submit your project using the CALL FOR PROPOSALS FORM by Sunday, March 22, 2026. Faculty submissions will be showcased at the annual Faculty Showcase for Innovative Teaching:
Thursday, May 7, 2026, 4 - 6 PM.
Peer-reviewed awards are presented at the event: View Rubric
- Faculty Innovator of the Year ($500 check prize)
- Innovative Excellence (certification on gilded paper)
- Best Innovation Flop - Sharing interesting failed experiments (Unique prize)
Email Delayna Breckon with any questions.
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Faculty Research and Speed Networking
Developed in 2023-2024 with the MML Faculty Fellow, David Schwan, this yearly event is a collaboration between Research and Sponsored Programs, Multimodal Learning, and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. In addition to learning about resources, faculty get to share their research with each other providing an opportunity for collaboration and building community.
Winter 2026
- Event date: Thursday, February 12, 3:30pm-5:30pm, Samuelson 131 or via Zoom
Registration and Presenter Sign-Up
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