The Coulter Faculty Commons (CFC) advances excellence in teaching, learning, and scholarship by partnering with the Western Carolina University community through collaboration, creation, and celebration.
We partner with all members of the WCU teaching and learning community.
We are here to help
Consultations
Meet with us for custom support
Accessibility
Find resources to support your students
Teaching Analysis Polls - TAPs
CFC’s Mid-Semester Feedback Program
New Faculty Orientation
Support for navigating your first year at WCU
Faculty Forward
Faculty Learning Community
SoTL
Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
Teaching@WCU
In case you missed the last news from the CFC, find the most recent posts below. To catch up with all communications, vists the CFC News page or check out the CFC Newsletter Archive.
Your Brain on Writing
What happens in the brain when we write?
Using Open-Note Quizzes to Facilitate Listening, Encoding and Retrieval
Open-note quizzes may seem like a practice too juvenile for university students, but consider how the open-note quiz encourages several practices that faculty are fond of…
Improve Student Note-Taking
A 2014 study by Mueller and Oppenheimer indicated that students who took notes in class with their computer performed more poorly than students who took notes by hand.
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Coulter Faculty Commons
172 Hunter Library
Cullowhee, NC 28723
828.227.7196
cfc@wcu.edu