Tools to Improve Teaching
Learn more about how Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) intersects with work in Higher Education by visiting the Bridging Mind and Machines: Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning - Overview | Rise 360 (articulate.com), a website dedicated to collecting helpful resources for educational professionals.
Find out how our colleagues across the state are leveraging A.I. by reviewing their use cases (and details) at the TBR AI Exchange.
Looking for a classroom intervention that is research-based, meaningful, and can be fast to implement? Check out the TBR Mindset Resource Repository This Mindset Resource Repository was created in collaboration with Motivate Lab to provide resources, handouts, and templates that any course instructor can use to add mindset-supportive activities, language, and best practices to their course.
You can also utilize the Mindset Matcher Tool to quickly locate helpful Mindset Resources by answering just 3 questions.
Resources coming soon!
Competency-Based Education is a pedagogical approach to designing courses where students are expected to demonstrate competencies aligned with clearly defined learning objectives. Competency-Based Education at TBR is defined as an innovative, student-centric approach to post-secondary learning for adult learners in Tennessee
Degrees of Success: Teaching, Innovation, and Leadership Conference coming October 29-30, 2025. Learn more.
College, Career, and Technical Education (CTE) referes to post-secondary educational opportunities that help students become better prepared for success in their educational goals, their careers, and their lives. Learn more at the Center for Workforce Development.
Interested in learning more about course design best practices? Your local TBR institution may have resources to hone skills in Universal Design for Learning (UDL), crafting Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) and more.
High Impact Practices (HIPs) are strategic pedagogical approachs which require an investment of time and energy over an extended period that has usually positive effects on student engagement in educationally purposeful behavior (Kuh, 2010). High impact practices are evidence-based teaching and learning practices that have been widely tested and shown to be beneficial for college students (Kuh, 2008).
In support of this work, the Center selects annual HIP Ambassadors from a competitive process. These HIP Ambassadors hold connection calls to share their best teaching practices and answer questions from other faculty members.
Since Fall 2001, TBR has provided quality postsecondary education to Tennesseans who cannot complete their degrees without 24/7 online course access through the TN eCampus program. Learn more about TN eCampus.
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Resource Repositories
TBR Teaching & Learning Resource Repository
- New resources will be continually added as they are created.
- Note: The Speaker/Training Request Form within the repository is for requests within the TBR System. People outside the TBR System who are enquiring about speaker/training availablility should reach out via email.
- New resources will be continually added as they are created.