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2015 Curriculum Enhancement Grant Proposals Due Friday, January 16

Proposals Due Friday, January 16, 2015
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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 grants enable faculty competitiveness for external educational or curricular improvement grants and increase faculty involvement in pursuing the scholarship of teaching and learning.

CEG funds will support projects in two tracks: the General Track and the Intergroup Dialogue Initiative Track. Individual faculty members can apply for up to $5,000. Teams of three or more faculty working on three or more courses can apply for a maximum of $15,000 per proposal. The grants are open to IUPUI and IUPU Columbus full-time faculty. See the 2015 Curriculum Enhancement Grant (CEG) Request for Proposals for more information. The deadline for proposal submissions is Friday, January 16, 2015.

Canvas: Migrating Files and Resources from Oncourse

Tuesday, December 2, 2014 | Online - Adobe Connect | 2 - 2:50 p.m.
Register »| Organizer: Tom Janke | Presenters: Kim Murday, Kyle Leach

In this webinar, jointly offered by CTL and IT Training, we will explore the Files tool in Canvas. We will discuss good practices for file storage and the connection between Canvas and Box. Participants will also learn how to manage their multimedia files in Canvas. We will demonstrate how to zip and move Resources from Oncourse to Canvas.

Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Intergroup Dialogue

Wednesday, December 3, 2014 | UL 1116 | 2 - 3:30 p.m.
Register » | Organizer: Lauren Easterling | Presenters: Daniel Griffith, Alice Jones, Lauren Easterling, Margo Foreman, Marianne Wokeck

Intergroup dialogues are facilitated, face-to-face interactions between individuals from two or more social identity groups. They focus on issues related to social justice, social group membership, identity, and the positionality (privilege and oppression) of the groups represented. Based on research, intergroup dialogue processes greatly enhance both cognitive and experiential learning around topics involving diversity, cultural competence and social justice when compared to traditional content courses on the same subjects absent IGD teaching components. IUPUI has embarked on a campus-wide initiative to incorporate intergroup dialogue principles, pedagogy and practices into undergraduate, graduate and professional level courses and curriculum, as well as co-curricular learning and faculty and staff professional development.

Building and Organizing Content in Canvas with Modules

Thursday, December 4, 2014 | UL 1125M | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Register » | Organizer: Amy Powell | Presenter: Amy Powell

Canvas offers new ways of organizing and presenting content to students through the Modules tool. Participants will learn how to organize files, assignments, quizzes, web links, and custom web pages in a format that guides the learner experience through your course content. This will be a hands-on workshop where participants will have the opportunity to build a module using the tools mentioned above.

Developing CEG Proposals

Thursday, December 4, 2014 | UL 1125M | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Register » | Organizer: Terri Tarr | Presenters: Richard Turner, Terri Tarr, and Daniel Griffith

Canvas offers new ways of organizing and presenting content to students through the Modules tool. Participants will learn how to organize files, assignments, quizzes, web links, and custom web pages in a format that guides the learner experience through your course content. This will be a hands-on workshop where participants will have the opportunity to build a module using the tools mentioned above.

Canvas Quizzes - IT Training webinar

Friday, December 5, 2014 | Online - Adobe Connect | 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Register » | Organizer: Tom Janke | Presenters: Kimmaree Murday, Cordah Pierce

In this webinar, co-presented by CITL and IT Training, participants will learn how to create and grade quizzes and tests in Canvas. Using the functions and flexibility of the Quizzes tool, participants will learn several options for providing feedback on student performance, how to view quiz statistics, and about best practices for online assessment.

First Look at Canvas - IT Training webinar

Wednesday, December 10, 2014 | Online - Adobe Connect | 10 - 10:50 a.m.
Register » | Organizer: Tom Janke | Presenters: Kimmaree Murday, M. Leach

In this webinar, jointly offered by CTL and IT Training, we will explore and discuss the structure of Canvas, IU’s new learning management system. The presentation will give instructors an understanding of the interactivity of Canvas tools and how that influences how courses are set up. Participants will learn about the following Canvas tools: Home, Calendar, Syllabus, Assignments, and Settings.

Quality Matters - Applying the QM Rubric, 5th Edition

Friday, December 12, 2014 | UL 1130 | 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Register » | Organizer: Lauren Easterling | Presenter: Lauren Easterling

This workshop will introduce faculty and staff to the QM Rubric and Process, sharing best practices for online course design. The QM Rubric is a research-based set of standards that can be used during the course design process. The QM Process is a peer review process that eventually will review many IU Online courses, with the goal of achieving QM Recognition for mature online courses in the near future. Also, the APPQMR is the pre-requisite for the Peer Reviewer Course, which is the required course to become a QM Peer Reviewer.

Introduction to the TaskStream ePortfolio

Friday, December 12, 2014 | UL 0106 | 1 - 4 p.m.
Register » | Organizer: Amy Powell | Presenters: Mark Alexander, Amy Powell, Lynn Ward

With the advent of Canvas as IU’s learning management system and Taskstream as the new ePortfolio platform, life is getting much more interesting for ePortfolio users at IUPUI! Staff of the Center for Teaching and Learning are already immersed in helping faculty transfer courses from Oncourse to Canvas, and they’re also rapidly coming up to speed with Taskstream. This workshop will provide an overview of current planning for ePortfolio transitions, including demonstration of the Taskstream Directed Response Folio (equivalent function to Oncourse’s matrix) and a hands-on introduction to the presentation component of Taskstream, known as WebFolio.

Search for New Executive Director of the CRL

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research is formally launching the search for the Executive Director of the Center for Research and Learning, which is currently headed by Dr. Rick Ward, who will be retiring this July. Please share the position announcement with colleagues in your schools who would be interested to know about this search, including those who would be good candidates to apply or be nominated for consideration.

The announcement is located at: http://www.iupui.edu/~oeo/academicjobs/IN-ACSP14005htm.HTM

RISE Program Course Development Grant

Faculty are encouraged to apply for $2500 for professional development/summer support to develop a new course or redesign an existing course in line with RISE criteria. $2000 will be disseminated initially and the remaining $500 upon submission of the final report.

RISE courses must incorporate qualified experiences, integration of knowledge, structured reflection activities to link the experience with targeted learning outcomes, and assessment as outlined below. These courses will be distinctive because they intentionally use experiential learning to prepare students for graduate school, careers, and global citizenship. They provide skills, knowledge, and experiences that are highly valued by employers and lay the foundation for future leaders. Courses developed in the summer of 2015 must initially be offered in the 2015-16 academic year. For more information visit: http://due.iupui.edu/center-for-coordinated-initiatives/iupui-rise-program/course-development-grant

The deadline to submit RISE course development grant proposals is February 6, 2015.

Center for Service and Learning Grants and Scholarships

CSL Dissemination Grants
Application Deadline: Through April 2015 or until funding is exhausted.

About: The Center for Service and Learning has designated funds for small dissemination grants between $500 and $750. These grants are available to support faculty and instructional staff in disseminating work associated with civic and community engagement in higher education, particularly work that builds the knowledge base related to service learning pedagogy, community-university partnerships and community-based participatory research/collaborative inquiry.

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2015 Service Learning Assistant (SLA) Scholarship Program

Application Period: Summer 2015
General application period: Saturday, November 1, 2014 - Saturday, January 31, 2015

About: Faculty, staff and administrators engaged in the following are invited to apply for an SLA scholarship:

Those teaching service learning courses or related forms of community-engaged learning (both domestic and international).
Those implementing department-based service learning programs, or
Those engaged in scholarly inquiry or evaluation that analyzes to student, faculty/staff or partnership outcomes of community-university engagement.