CTL Faculty Liaison's Monthly - Message #1

Wednesday, April 3 | 12 noon – 1 pm | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Anusha Rao and Presenters: Jessica Alexander, Jerry Daday, and Anusha S Rao

High-impact practcies (HIPs) are educational experiences that improve appreciation for diversity, student persistence, learning outcomes, and student success, particularly for underserved student populations. Kuh identified 11 HIPs, including service learning, diversity/global learning, internships, undergraduate research, and others.  One of our campus priorities is to increase the numbers and to enhance the effectiveness of HIPs courses. This webinar will provide an introduction to different types of HIPs, HIPs taxonomies developed at IUPUI, and resources on how you can design a new HIP course or improve an existing one. 

This webinar is part of the Center for Teaching and Learning’s online mini-workshop series focused on foundational teaching skills, Teaching@IUPUI. Designed for new faculty, adjunct faculty, graduate students, and those looking for a refresher on good teaching practices, the webinars are short, with a brief presentation interspersed with opportunities for interaction and questions. Grounded in current research, the workshops address various teaching topics and provide participants with strategies and resources to make instruction more effective, efficient, and enjoyable. Sessions are scheduled with the time of semester in mind, to keep topics relevant for faculty needs at that time.

Thursday, April 4 | 11 am – 12 noon | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Jeani Young and Presenters: Jeffrey Ashby, Jeremiah Ashe, Jennifer Ashmore, Jessica Ashton, Julia Lash, and Jon LaShure

Please register below to watch the recording.

As a classroom instructor, from time to time you’ll have a student that you’re worried about. Their attendance and behavior may be erratic or there may be a significant change in the quality of their work or participation. You want to help, but you don’t know what’s available to the student or even how to broach the subject in conversation or an email.

In this webinar, Dr. Julie Lash of IUPUI Counseling and Psychological Services will discuss student mental health concerns in the classroom and helpful ways for faculty to both address classroom situations and connect students with support and resources.

This event aligns with the following IUSM Academy of Teaching Scholars program competencies: Instructional Strategies (IS).

Thursday, April 4 | 11 am – 12:30 pm | Taylor Hall UC 2110
Register » Organizer: Anusha S. Rao and Presenters: Douglas Jerolimov and Richard Turner

When applying for faculty positions with teaching responsibilities, an increasing expectation in institutions with a focus on undergraduate education is that applicants will have a collection of evidence of their experiences related to teaching and learning.  Even if you have not formally taught a course, you may have had other experiences that can demonstrate your growing ability related to teaching.  This workshop will address ways to think about experiences related to teaching, and how to document these for the job search.

This webinar is co-sponsored by the IUPUI Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals program.

Tuesday, April 9 | 1 – 3 pm | UL 1116
Register » Organizer: Terri Tarr and Presenter: Terri Tarr

As IUPUI continues the process of reviewing general education courses, course coordinators or faculty responsible for preparing course dossiers for review may have questions about the information and materials that need to go into the dossiers. This webinar will provide an overview of the course review process, course dossier requirements, and the rubric that will be used to review the course dossiers. It will also introduce a new option for preparing a simplified course dossier based on using a Mile Marker assignment. Examples from existing course dossiers will be incorporated into the webinar. Questions and discussion will be encouraged.

Wednesday, April 10 | 11 am – 12 noon | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Jeani Young and Presenters: Jeani Young, Jeremy Dean, and Hypothes.is Director of Education

Hypothes.is is a tool that allows collaborative annotation and discussion of texts within the text itself. Everyone can stay in the context of the pdf document or public webpage without the need to use a separate discussion tool. IU faculty can use Hypothes.is is with their students via an integration with Canvas or with Pressbooks. Join us to learn more about using Hypothes.is in your class.

This event aligns with the following IUSM Academy of Teaching Scholars program competencies: Instructional Strategies (IS), Instructional Technology (IT).

Monday, April 15 | 2 – 3:30 pm | Taylor Hall, Room 2110
Register » Organizer: Terri Tarr and Presenters: Jessica Alexander, Douglas Jerolimov, and Anusha S Rao

The Profiles of Learning for Undergraduate Success, our new institutional undergraduate learning outcomes, have replaced the Principles of Undergraduate Learning (PULs) and Principles of Co-Curricular Learning (PCLs). They are written with an active orientation, using student-facing language, and are applicable to all student-facing units. Administrators of all undergraduate programs, and instructors of general education courses and capstone courses, are expected to be among the first to map their learning outcomes to the profiles.

In this hands-on workshop, facilitators will provide a brief overview of the profiles, share examples of academic and co-curricular programs and courses that already have been mapped, and introduce tools, resources, and processes that participants can use to map their own learning outcomes. Participants are expected to bring copies of or have access to their own learning outcomes during the workshop so they can begin to map their program or course learning outcomes to the profiles. Ample time will be given for participants to engage in discussion and ask questions.

Tuesday, April 16 | 11 am – 12 noon | Online - GoToWebinar
Register » Organizer: Andi Strackeljahn and Presenter: George Haines

VoiceThread is a visual discussion that can help support social presence and a collaborative learning community in online, hybrid, and face-to-face courses. With VoiceThread, instructors and/or students can create, share, and comment on documents, slides, images, and videos.

In this hands on-webinar, participants will learn how to create a VoiceThread and setup a VoiceThread assignment in Canvas. Additionally, use of Kaltura content and inline video annotations will be demonstrated.

This event aligns with the following IUSM Academy of Teaching Scholars program competencies: Instructional Technology (IT).

Wednesday, April 17 | 2 – 3:30 pm | UL 1116
Register » Organizer: Jessica Alexander and Presenters: Jessica Alexander and Corinthian Blythe

Diversity statements are increasingly becoming a required component of job applications in order for employers to discern potential employees’ contributions to equity and inclusion. In this workshop, the purpose of and best practices for writing a diversity statement will be reviewed. Participants will also begin to craft the core components of their diversity statements by reflecting on how their teaching, research, service, and other activities have contributed to equity and inclusion.

This workshop is co-sponsored by the IUPUI Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals program.

Friday, April 19 | 10 am – 4 pm | UL 1130 (University Library)
Register » Organizer: Douglas Jerolimov and Presenter: Douglas Jerolimov

This workshop introduces faculty and staff to the Quality Matters (QM) Rubric and to the QM Process. Quality Matters is a nationally recognized quality assurance organization for online course design, and the QM Process is a faculty-led peer review process that uses the research-based standards (criteria)  of the QM Rubric to certify online courses. Eventually, many online courses within the IU system will undergo the QM Process with the goal of achieving national QM recognition. Faculty may also use the QM Rubric as a guide to design online courses. And, for faculty who are interested, this course serves as a pre-requisite for QM's Peer Reviewer Course, which is a required course for faculty who seek certification as a QM Peer Reviewer, allowing them to participate in QM course reviews for courses created here at IU and at other universities.

The workshop is offered at IUPUI as a one-day synchronous Zoom workshop from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.with a one hour break for lunch. To receive the QM certificate of completion for this workshop, participants must be present for and participate in the entire workshop. 

Wednesday, April 24 | 3 – 4 pm | UL 1126
Register » Organizer: Terri Tarr and Presenter: Terri Tarr

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) will recognize the 2019 Curriculum Enhancement Grant (CEG) awardees at a reception on Wednesday, April 24, 3-4 p.m., as they begin their projects.  The CTL welcomes the PIs, co-PIs, those who supported their applications, and other members of the IUPUI community to the reception. CEG projects will run from May 2019 through June 2020 and scholars will present their work at a symposium in October 2020.

The Curriculum Enhancement Grant (CEG) provides faculty with technical and instructional support, time, and funds to implement projects designed to improve student learning and success at IUPUI and IUPU Columbus. In addition, the program seeks to enhance the conversation about scholarly teaching on campus and increase the practice of the scholarship of teaching and learning. Furthermore, work on CEG projects may enable faculty competitiveness for external educational or curricular improvement grants.