FaCIT pushes innovative teaching at CMU

(NOTE: This article originally appeared in the August 26, 2009 edition of Central Michigan Life.)

Central Michigan University is looking toward expanding its teaching methods to the 22nd century and beyond as the first decade of this century comes to a close.


The charge for more innovative means of instruction is led by the Faculty Center for Innovative Teaching.

FaCIT is the university’s resource for faculty who wish to implement more digital teaching methods into their courses, such as posting lectures in podcast form to iTunes U.

“We are aware that students are definitely hip to iTunes U,” said Jim Therrell, director of FaCIT.

ITunes U quickly is becoming one of the more popular multimedia teaching methods at CMU, he said.

ITunes U is a free educational service provided by Apple that features more than 200,000 audio and video files world and also provides university’s with the option to keep the files available to only their students, according to Apple.com.