Teaching & Learning Center
Supporting teaching through innovation
The Teaching & Learning Center supports academic excellence by inspiring and encouraging innovation in pedagogical practices and technology.
We provide instructional design and ongoing support for Warrington’s online and hybrid graduate and undergraduate courses.
About the center
Following the guidelines for accreditation of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, we help faculty develop and maintain assessment strategies to measure students’ mastery of learning objectives. We also support instructors in making adjustments to ensure our students are well prepared for careers as leaders in business and academia. Finally, we serve on a variety of college- and university-level committees that are dedicated to excellence in teaching and learning.
The Teaching & Learning Center keeps current with technological and pedagogical trends, and has presented and published on a variety of topics as a team and in collaboration with Warrington’s instructors. Topics include experiential and excursion learning, how to leverage video to drive learning, and how to incorporate active and flipped learning. We are committed to helping Warrington’s instructors foster collaborative and effective online learning environments for students.
The Warrington College of Business has a robust assurance of learning program. The AACSB standards for assurance of learning requires that “the school uses a well documented, systematic process to develop, monitor, evaluate, and revise the substance and delivery of the curricula of degree programs and assesses the impact of the curricula on learning.”
AACSB requires that faculty have “ownership of, and a deep involvement in” the process of assuring that students in our programs are learning. Additional constituents influence the college’s process, including students, alumni, advisory boards, and employers. Data collected through this process is analyzed by program committees and used to fuel conversations on continuous improvement.
Each degree program has a defined plan for monitoring learning objectives. The faculty lead assigned to each program ensures the review process is implemented.
Assurance of learning per degree
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Faculty lead: Lindy Archambeau – Instructional Assistant Professor
Committee: Undergraduate Curriculum
Bachelor of Science in Accounting
Facultylead: Jill Goslinga — Grant Thornton Faculty Fellow, Instructional Associate Professor.
Committee: Fisher School of Accounting Curriculum
MBA
Faculty lead: Gwendolyn Lee – Chester C. Holloway Professor
Committee: MBA Curriculum
Master of Science in Information Systems and Operations Management
Faculty lead: Kenny Cheng – John B. Higdom Eminent Scholar Chair, Professor
Committee members: Asoo Vakharia, Haldun Aytug, Praveen Pathak, Anand Paul
Master of Science in Entrepreneurship (The Thomas S. Johnson Program)
Faculty lead: Alex Settles – Clinical Associate Professor
Committee: MSE Curriculum
Master of International Business
Faculty lead: Brian Gendreau – Hough Professor
Committee members: Sean Limon, Ana Portocarrero, Amanda Phalin
Master of Science in Management
Faculty lead: Gwen Lee – Chester C. Holloway Professor
Committee members: Sean Limon, Lindy Archambeau, Ana Portocarrero
MS Marketing
Faculty lead: Lyle Brenner – Jack Faricy Professor, Associate Professor
Committee members: MS Marketing Curriculum
Master of Science in Finance
Faculty lead: David Brown – BB&T Professor of Free Enterprise, Associate Professor
Committee members: Carolyn Brown, Brian Gendreau
Master of Science in Real Estate
Faculty lead: David Ling — Ken & Linda McGurn Professor
Committee members: MS in Real Estate Curriculum
Ph.D. programs
Faculty lead: Chris Janiszewski – JCPenney Professor of Marketing
Committee: PhD Curriculum
DBA
Faculty lead: Phil Podsakoff – Hyatt and Cici Brown Chair of Business
Committee: DBA Curriculum
PhD Teaching Award
The Warrington College of Business recognizes excellence in the classroom through the PhD Teaching Award. This award is offered to up to three Ph.D. students each academic year who are teaching a course for which they have sole responsibility.
Be sure to observe the following deadlines to submit your award documents:
- If you are teaching during the Summer 2025 through Spring 2026 semesters, submit your award documents by June 1, 2026.
To be considered for the award, you are required to submit the following to the PhD Teaching Award Committee:
1. Course syllabus. To ensure that your syllabus is complete, be sure to review the University of Florida Syllabus Policy.
2. Course site URL. To ensure that your course site is complete, be sure to review the University of Florida Required Minimal Canvas Usage Policy.
3. Statement of your teaching philosophy. When crafting your 1-2-page single-spaced philosophy, consider ways to include tangible and specific examples of how you put your pedagogical philosophies into practice.
4. Midcourse evaluation. This evaluation should be administered via GatorEvals around the midpoint of your term (i.e., 6-8 weeks into the semester or 4 weeks into the mod if you are teaching a module course). See Midterm Evaluations for additional information on the evaluation, including how to opt-in. See Instructor Reports for information on how to generate a report of your midcourse evaluations.
5. Recording of one entire class session. You will need to provide a link (or links, if your class session is split into multiple recordings) to your recording. To ensure that your video is accessible during the award selection period, be sure to upload your video(s) to a hosting (Dropbox, OneDrive, or Google Drive) or sharing (YouTube or Vimeo) service.
As you prepare to record a class session, remember that recording technology can fail. Be sure to review your recording(s) to ensure the audio and video elements are of a high quality and to record early enough in the semester that you can re-record if necessary.
Note: You will want to provide advanced notice to your students that they will be captured in a recording in case they have a personal or cultural reason to not want to be filmed or photographed.
6. Official final course evaluations. These evaluations will be administered online through GatorEvals and will be available shortly after the semester that you teach. You should only submit the final course evaluations for the semester that you are submitting the award documents for. See Instructor Reports for information on how to generate a report of your final course evaluations.
7. Section(s) GPAs. Provide a breakdown of the final course GPAs for your students.
8. Self-evaluation of your midcourse and final course evaluations. This 1-2-page document should summarize what you learned from both of your course evaluation. Your reflection does not need to include quoted student comments, as those will be submitted and reviewed separately.
First, you should include what you learned from your midcourse evaluation after you read through the responses. Be sure to include any resulting modifications or improvements you made to your course or teaching during the second half of the semester.
Second, you should include what you learned from your final course evaluations. This portion of your self-evaluation should include any patterns you saw in the student feedback. You should also touch upon how well your midcourse improvements were received and what you would incorporate going forward.
Incomplete packages will not be considered, so be sure to include all required materials. You do not need to include any additional materials in your award application. Be sure to clearly label each document you submit to support the awards committee’s review process.
Note: If you have previously won a Ph.D. Teaching Award, you are ineligible to reapply for one year after receiving the award.Please submit all documents as a single zipped archive to the Teaching & Learning Center. Contact the Teaching & Learning Center if you have questions. We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Summer 2024-Spring 2025:
- Zhefan Huang (MAN4301), Sujin Park (MAR3503), and Alan Sohn (TAX5025 & TAX5027)
Read more about Zhefan, Sujin and Alan, and their teaching experience in the Warrington News.
How can we help?
The professionals in the Teaching & Learning Center are available to assist faculty and academic professionals in their curricular needs. Reach out to us:
Teaching & Learning Center
Bryan Hall 212
352-273-0730