February 7, 2012

Medical Education Grand Rounds

"The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Principles and Practices for Investigating Student Learning"

Derek Bruff, Ph.D.

Director, Center for Teaching
Vanderbilt University

Derek Bruff is the director of the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching (CFT) and a senior lecturer in mathematics.  At the CFT, Derek has consulted with faculty members, graduate students, departments, and programs across the university and helped develop two programs that prepare graduate students to engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning, the Teaching Certificate program and the Teaching-as-Research Fellows program.  Derek is nationally recognized for his work on the use of technology in education, having authored an influential and well-received book on the use of classroom response systems (“clickers”).  His other research interests include social pedagogies, student motivation, and visual thinking, and he writes about these and other topics on his blog, Agile Learning.

Derek received his PhD in Mathematics at Vanderbilt.  He taught mathematics at Harvard University for two years before returning to Vanderbilt as an assistant director at the CFT in 2005.  Derek was named director of the CFT in 2011.

Sponsored by Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Department of Office of Teaching and Learning in Medicine.