Teaching Business in the CSU is a community of members – CSU faculty, staff, administrators – that share a common interest in enhancing the quality of teaching and learning business disciplines with online resources. The mission of this site is to create a "teaching commons," a collaborative space that facilitates and supports CSU business faculty by increasing their knowledge, productivity, and professional effectiveness through sharing of pedagogical best practices, digital learning materials, and by building an online CSU Teaching Business community.
A CSU “TEACHING COMMONS”
Teaching Business in the CSU exemplifies the The Carnegie Foundation's idea of a "teaching commons" in which a community of faculty within a discipline that are committed to enhancing the scholarship of teaching and learning can exchange ideas, best practices, discuss policy changes, and promote pedagogical innovations for their students.
The idea of a teaching commons is not new to academia. Faculty engaged in scientific research and disciplinary scholarship have long enjoyed collegial interactions and gained professional recognition through their participation in conferences and symposia, but teaching has remained for the most part an isolated and private activity.
A CSU-MERLOT Partnership: CSU Business faculty can gain access to peer reviewed digital learning materials in their disciplines available through the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT). MERLOT (www.merlot.org) was created in 1997 by the CSU to help faculty and students share high quality online content and pedagogy. Under the CSU's leadership, MERLOT has grown to an international consortium of education institutions, professional societies, digital libraries, and corporations. more
WHY PARTICIPATE IN THE CSU TEACHING BUSINESS COMMONS?
- Share best practices for teaching and learning across courses
- Network with other CSU Business faculty statewide
- Collaborate on multi-campus digital and online learning projects
- Develop new academic content for your courses and get feedback f
- Build communities of practice for scholarship of teaching and learning
- Learn who is teaching online in CSU Business campuses
- Gain professional recognition for teaching innovations for RTP
- Learn how to use MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Onlne Teaching) www.merlot.org
- Learn about new digital and academic technologies in the CSU
- Discuss difficult challenges of teaching and learning in the CSU
- Share, improve and streamline approaches to AACSB accreditation
- Help part-time instructors and lecturers to use online learning resources
- Introduce new CSU Business Faculty
- Showcase Teaching Excellence achieved by CSU Business Faculty and/or Campuses
Join Our Listserv
The listserve provides a venue to share resources, announce events, discuss issues, problem solve, and network. The listserve is moderated to prevent spam and ensure that all postings are on-subject.
Join the Conversation
MERLOT Voices enables you to collaborate with all MERLOT members, join and participate in community conversations, customize your own Voices page, and add videos related to online learning and teaching. You can also invite others to join and participate.
News
CSU Business Conference on Online Teaching and Learning
November 20-21, 2008, CSU Dominguez Hills, Los Angeles, CAClick here for the program
Click here for the Conference Proceedings
Purpose:
Enhancing the teaching and learning process using online academic technologies is becoming increasingly important to CSU Business faculty and administrators. The growth and advances in online teaching and other forms of digital media offers both challenges and opportunities for CSU Business faculty and students alike. The purpose of this conference is to build a vibrant community of CSU Business educators who are involved and/or interested in teaching with technology, providing a system-wide forum for sharing of best practices, pedagogical innovations, content development, collaborative multi-campus academic projects, and other related issues. The conference offers an unprecedented opportunity to network with other CSU Business faculty and administrators who are on the forefront of teaching using technology and online resources. more
CSU Teaching Business Faculty Steering Committee
The CSU Teaching Business Faculty Steering Committee has been established to support the professional development of CSU Business faculty in their efforts to provide excellent academic programs for their students. The website is the first (and not only) means to provide this professional development services. more.