Active interchange between units on campus and through professional meetings should encourage and inspire faculty to create new computer capabilities for teaching and to share ideas about effective computer-based learning. New teachers are provided with background material in the summer before they begin teaching, attend a 3-day intensive workshop before classes begin, and attend a weekly teaching colloquium, required for new faculty as well, during the fall semester. All graduate instructors are paired with faculty teaching advisors, with whom they share drafts of teaching materials and assignments and review students' progress. The department also assists the instructors in preparing a teaching portfolio. The Capstone Learning Experience must involve more than one department or several areas within a single department.
Final work is presented in written, oral, and visual reports.