CIRTL Courses
Graduate courses and seminars from the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) Network allow you to interact with faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students from 45 research universities. Participants who successfully complete course activities and assignments can request a letter of completion.
Cross-Network Courses
Spring 2025
Advancing Learning Through Evidence-Based STEM Teaching (Revised self-paced online course)
Learn about developing effective, evidence-based STEM teaching practices at your own pace through online video modules and discussion boards in this eight-module course, now hosted through the CIRTL Network Moodle platform. Learn about all CIRTL-associated MOOCs and self-paced courses.
An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching (Revised self-paced online course)
Get an overview of effective college teaching strategies and the research that supports them in this 8-part asynchronous course designed for graduate students and postdocs in STEM disciplines. Created in 2014 as a cohort-based course, this was re-launched in Fall 2024 as a self-paced online course offered through the CIRTL Network Moodle platform. Learn about all CIRTL-associated MOOCs and self-paced courses.
Mindset to Mastery: The Inclusive Teaching Course
Examine your own identities, values, and experiences to cultivate an inclusive mindset that informs your teaching practices in this 8-week course. The course meets online via Zoom on Thursdays from January 30 to March 20 from 11am-12:30pm ET.
See also: Cornell’s local Teaching and Learning in the Diverse Classroom course.
Research Mentor Training
Work with a community of peers to develop and improve your research mentoring skills in this five-week seminar-style course. Students will develop their personal mentoring philosophy, learn how to articulate that philosophy across a variety of disciplines, and refine strategies for dealing with mentoring challenges. This course meets online via Zoom on Tuesdays from January 28 through February 25 from 2:30 – 4:00 pm ET.
See also: Cornell’s local Building Mentorship Skills for Academic Careers program.
Note
Optional local credit is available for some online CIRTL courses upon request, through a graduate individual study course number at the participant’s home institution. Cornell graduate students or postdocs interested in enrolling for independent study credit should contact Dr. Colleen McLinn at futurefaculty@cornell.edu as early as possible, but no later than the second week of the corresponding Cornell semester.
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