CTL Faculty Liaison's Monthly - Message #26

The CHAT Room is a virtual, informal space where faculty can gather to discuss timely topics related to teaching. There will be a different topic each month, offered two days/times to make it possible for more faculty to participate. Each one-hour CHAT Room discussion will have a faculty facilitator and a CTL host. At the beginning of the session, the facilitator will talk briefly about the topic and facilitate open discussion for the remainder of the hour. Following the facilitated discussion, a CTL host will direct the participants to resources pertaining to the topic. The discussions are scheduled for Tuesdays, 10:30 -11:30 a.m. and Wednesdays, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

Spring 2021 Dates and Topics:

March 2, 3: Rigor, flexibility – why not both? Carrie Hagan (Law), Facilitator; Andi Strackeljahn, CTL Host, Register for Mar 2 or Register for Mar 3
April 6, 7:  How do my blind spots impact my teaching? Jessica Alexander, CTL Host, Register for Apr 6 or Register for Apr 7

Speed Dating with Learning Technologies is exactly what it sounds like—a matchmaking event that encourages participants to "date" a range of potential tools and services, gaining exposure to a lot of resources within a short period of time. At each session, participants will have around 9 minutes to "speed date" (i.e., learn about) a specific tool or service before meeting their next "date."  Spring 2021 topics are as follows:

• STEM
• Health, Education, and Welfare
• Business, Law, and Public Affairs
• Arts, Humanities, Language & Culture

For more information and to register for an upcoming session, go to https://depi.iu.edu/events/speed-dating/.

Tuesday, March 2 | 10 - 11 a.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Andi Strackeljahn and Presenters: Peter Ermey, Carrie Hansel, Jason Kaetzel, and Nate Pairitz

This webinar will introduce instructors to effective strategies for using video and video analytics in Canvas courses. Participants will leave the webinar with:

• an understanding of the role analytics can play in course design and teaching 
• practical knowledge of how to find and interpret Canvas video analytics
• examples of how to review, adapt, and amend your course based on data around student engagement with videos
• best practices for creating videos that lead to increased student engagement

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

Wednesday, March 3 | 12 noon - 1 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Jessica Alexander and Presenters: Jessica Alexander, Anusha S Rao, and Andi Strackeljahn

Regardless of the course format in which you are teaching and the types of assignments you use, academic misconduct could be a concern for you. In this webinar, we will discuss tools and teaching strategies to mitigate and address academic misconduct. You will create your recipe for promoting academic integrity that takes into consideration your course context.

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

Tuesday, March 9 | 12 noon - 1 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Douglas Jerolimov and Presenters: Douglas Jerolimov and Richard Turner

Documenting a teaching practice becomes much easier if the faculty member can situate the teaching practice amidst best practices, identifying when and how student learning occurs, and identify the kinds of evidence needed to document and measure student learning outcomes. This webinar helps faculty describe learning events for two major categories of student learning experiences. Webinar participants will take first steps to articulating a sequence of learning events for particular assignments. Afterward, faculty members may work with CTL consultants to continue planning efforts to document teaching practices. This webinar is the 2nd webinar in a 3-webinar series designed to introduce faculty and graduate students to the process of creating, refining and documenting one’s teaching practices.

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.

This event aligns with the following IUSM Academy of Teaching Scholars program competencies: Learning Theory (L).

Thursday, March 11 | 12 noon - 1 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Jessica Alexander and Presenters: Jessica Alexander and Kimmaree Murday

Creating accessible course materials is critical to support all students, particularly those with visual or audio impairments. In this webinar, participants will be introduced to tools, resources, and best practices for developing accessible course materials.

This webinar is part of the Center for Teaching and Learning’s online mini-workshop series focused on foundational teaching skills, Teaching Foundations. 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.

This event aligns with the following IUSM Academy of Teaching Scholars program competencies: Inclusive Teaching (I), Curriculum and Course Design (C)

Friday, March 12 | 1 - 2 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Randy Newbrough and Presenter: Krystine Altamira - Piazza

Piazza is an online collaboration platform that facilitates interaction among students and instructors in an efficient and intuitive manner, helping students who are stuck on homework problems work through them with the help of their classmates, TAs, and professors. 

Some features include:

• Wiki-style formatting enables collaboration in a single space
• Anonymous posting encourages every student, even the shyest, to participate
• Instructors endorse student answers to keep the class on track
• Features a LaTeX editor, highlighted syntax and code blocking 
• Detailed statistics to help track student engagement

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

Wednesday, March 17 | 12 noon - 1 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Douglas Jerolimov and Presenters: Douglas Jerolimov and Richard Turner

This session introduces faculty and graduate students to the practice of documenting one’s teaching. Participants will examine different kinds of evidence and documents to capture, and to make the case for, teaching achievements.  Participants will consider how to shape their evolution as teachers through the use of many kinds of documents that include—but do not rely on—student evaluations of teaching. This webinar is the 3rd webinar in a 3-webinar series designed to introduce faculty and graduate students to the process of creating, refining and documenting one’s teaching practices.

This webinar is one of the Center for Teaching and Learning’s online mini-workshops focused on foundational teaching skills, a series of webinars called 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.

Friday, March 19 | 10 - 11 a.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Randy Newbrough and Presenter: Krystine Altamira - Piazza

Piazza is an online collaboration platform that facilitates interaction among students and instructors in an efficient and intuitive manner, helping students who are stuck on homework problems work through them with the help of their classmates, TAs, and professors. 

Some features include:

• Wiki-style formatting enables collaboration in a single space
• Anonymous posting encourages every student, even the shyest, to participate
• Instructors endorse student answers to keep the class on track
• Features a LaTeX editor, highlighted syntax and code blocking 
• Detailed statistics to help track student engagement

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

Tuesday, March 23 | 12 noon - 1 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Sheila Summers and Presenters: Elaine Seymour, Director Emerita, Ethnography & Evaluation Research, and University of Colorado at Boulder

Elaine Seymour presents a selection of her research team’s findings from their multi-methods, 5-year study reported in “Talking about Leaving Revisited: Persistence Relocation and Loss in Undergraduate STEM Education” (2019, Eds. Seymour and Hunter, Springer). She focuses on what contributors to student losses from STEM majors have and have not changed since the original 1997 (Seymour & Hewitt) study and what new contributors to loss have emerged. She presents the team’s new evidence on why particular student groups are most at risk and what factors contribute most to their persistence difficulties.

Please reach out to Sheila Summers at shesumme@iupui.edu with any questions.

Co-sponsored by the STEM Education Innovation & Research Institute and the Center for Teaching and Learning
 

Thursday, March 25 | 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Douglas Jerolimov and Presenters: Douglas Jerolimov and Jeani Young

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. 

Thursday, March 25 | 1 - 2 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Jessica Alexander and Presenters: Jessica Alexander and Annwesa Dasgupta

Students who have a growth mindset view intelligence as malleable while those with a fixed mindset view intelligence as finite. Students can grow with persistence and effort, but having a growth mindset underlies these behaviors. This, in turn, is dependent on the instructor’s mindset as well. In this webinar, participants will be introduced to the differences between growth and fixed mindset theories of intelligence and discuss activities they can incorporate into their classes to foster growth mindset. They will also reflect upon their current teaching practices that align with growth mindset and identify new activities.

This webinar is part of the Center for Teaching and Learning’s online mini-workshop series focused on foundational teaching skills, Teaching Foundations (previously known as 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.

This event aligns with the following IUSM Academy of Teaching Scholars program competencies: Learning Theory (L), Inclusive Teaching (I)