CTL Happenings - Message #304

Metacognition refers to how learners think about and monitor their own knowledge, a process which has been shown to improve students’ learning. Metacognitive skills involve assessing the demands of a task, evaluating one’s own knowledge and skills, planning an approach, monitoring one’s progress, and adjusting strategies as needed to complete the task. Participants will learn how to blend metacognitive skill instruction with content instruction by using strategies such as instructor modeling of reflection, student self-reflection, visual organizers, formative assessments, and more.

A teaching philosophy presents a faculty member’s reflection on the experiences and beliefs that shape his or her teaching and learning strategies. Often used as part of a job application, a promotion and tenure dossier, a teaching award nomination, or course syllabi, a teaching philosophy captures and documents a teacher’s values and aspirations in teaching. This webinar will review one model for structuring a teaching philosophy and will also examine some example philosophies. Webinar participants will take the first steps in articulating their teaching philosophy; those who have already begun to craft a philosophy will have an opportunity to continue that work.

This session introduces faculty and graduate students to best practices of documenting one’s teaching. Participants will examine different approaches to capture evidence of teaching and learning, and to make the case for teaching achievements. Participants will consider how to shape their evolution as teachers through the use of student course evaluations, peer reviews of teaching, and other means of measuring student learning.

Learn how to use Canvas, IU's new Learning Management System, at your own pace or in a guided tutorial. The Center for Teaching and Learning, along with IT Training, offers a wide variety of workshops and webinars to help faculty set up Canvas sites for summer and fall semesters.

Upcoming workshops:

• Canvas: Pages (Content in Context) (June 10)
• Canvas: Building and Organizing Content with Modules (June 16)
• Canvas: First Look (June 17)
• Canvas: Assignments and Grading Overview (June 20)
• Canvas: Using Groups (June 21)
• Canvas: Quizzes and Tests (June 29)
• Canvas:  Assignments and Grading Overview (July 7)
• Canvas:  Pages (Content in Context) July 11
• Canvas:  Building and Organizing Content with Modules (July 20)

Oncourse to Canvas Migration Support

If you have been teaching in Oncourse and are ready to make the move to Canvas, here are some resources you may find helpful:

• Read Using the Canvas Migration Tool Knowledge Base
• Request a consultation with a Consultant
• Request a Canvas Workshop for your school, department or program
  

Changes to Turnitin Canvas Integration

Canvas courses for Summer 2016 were made available Thursday, 4/7.  Along with the summer course availability comes a significant change with the Turnitin (IU’s originality checking and plagiarism prevention service) integration with Canvas. Turnitin and Canvas are discontinuing support for the existing Turnitin integration. 

A new external tool integration with Turnitin became available on Thursday, 4/7. The new Turnitin tool is a substantial upgrade in security over the previous version. However, there are some significant changes in the way assignments are set up and connected to the service. In particular, any assignment you import from Spring 2016 and earlier will need to be reconnected with the Turnitin service.

View the Canvas instructions here and the updated IU Knowledge Base article with an included video tutorial. If you have any questions, please contact the CTL.

Back by popular demand! This three-session series is designed to train participants to communicate complex scientific topics more effectively to non-experts like patients, learners, lawmakers, and funders. This program is free and open to all IUSM and IUPUI faculty and graduate students.

All participants are asked to commit to the entire three workshop series, as each session builds upon the previous. Please note, if you register for this event, you will be registered for all three sessions.  The workshop series includes: Connecting with your Audience, Distilling your Message, Media Training for Scientists and Physicians.

This event is sponsored by the IUSM Office of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development.  The Communicating Science program is part of IU's affiliation with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, in partnership with the IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning and the IUPUI School of Science. 

If you have any questions about this event, please contact the Office of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development at (317) 278-3089 or email at ofapd@iupui.edu.

Click here to register.

Teaching Awards & Faculty Honors nominations are due by Friday, October 14, 2016 for Distinguished Professorships, Distinguished Teaching Awards, Associate Instructor Awards, the Ehrlich, Pinnell, Ryan Awards, and the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Technology.  Nominations and supporting documentation must be submitted electronically.  Recipients will be honored in the spring of 2017.  For questions, email disteach@indiana.edu or call (812) 855-3761.  Click here to submit a nomination.

Silin, J. (2016). Teaching across difference. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 48(2), 32-33., DOI: 10.1080/00091383.2016.1163202. Click here to view article.