Consultations
Want a personalized consultation on a teaching issue? The CTE can help you with various aspects of your teaching.
The Center for Teaching Excellence offers instructional design services to support teaching and learning at SMU. The primary focus of working with an instructional designer is to engage in a cooperative dialogue to address the needs of your class. You can work one-on-one with an Instructional Designer for:
- Face-to-face, hybrid, and online course design
- Canvas consultation with focus on pedagogy
- Syllabus redesign
- Technology implementation for student engagement and/or subject matter showcase
- Assessment strategies
- Confidential classroom observations
- Research partnership on effectiveness of teaching strategies
Consultation Requests
The form below is a mechanism for receiving consultation requests from faculty who are seeking help with pedagogical strategies, course design assistance, and teaching observations. Consultation sessions are expected to last up to 50 minutes, and can happen individually or in small groups virtually. This form is not intended to be a way to request technical support and/or technology troubleshooting assistance. Please direct those requests to help@smu.edu.
Dr. Adeline "Addy" Tolliver uses her robust knowledge of instructional design best practices to assist faculty in course development, deployment, and evaluation. She is also responsible for assisting faculty with integration of technology and various pedagogical practices to effectively showcase subject matter content and promote student engagement in face-to-face and online courses.
Prior to joining SMU's Center for Teaching Excellenc e, Addy worked at Texas Wesleyan University's Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning as an Instructional Technologist. Before her position at Texas Wesleyan, she was a graduate assistant for the Baylor University Online Teaching and Learning Services, a graduate fellow at the Baylor Academy for Teaching and Learning, and the instructor for TED 3380 (Social Issues in Education), TED 1112 (Technology) lab and the graduate level EDC5370 (Technology Fundamentals).
Addy is a native of São Paulo, Brazil. All of her degrees are from Baylor University in Waco, TX where she was also a volleyball letter winner. She has earned a B.F.A in Graphic Design, a M.S.Ed. in Sport Pedagogy and Coaching and an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction – Instructional Technology (Dissertation Title - Rethinking the Dissertation: A Case Study on the State of Acceptance of New Media Projects as Ed.D. Capstone Experiences).
Addy has presented at numerous professional conferences (OLC, Educause, ELI, NMC, ATE, NAGPS, and others) and has multiple publications in the topic of education including Visions, Voices, and Virtual Journeys: The Future of Distance Education. In Huffman, S. et. al (Eds.), Cases on Building Quality Distance Delivery Programs: Strategies and Experiences (p.269-289). Hershey, PA: IGI and Global and Technology Outlook for Brazilian Primary and Secondary Education 2012-2017: An NMC Horizon Project Sector Analysis. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.
Contact Information:Email: atolliver@smu.edu