CTL Happenings - Message #322

The Curriculum Enhancement Grant (CEG) provides faculty with technical and instructional support, time, and funds to implement projects designed to improve student learning and successes at IUPUI and IUPU Columbus.  In addition, the grants seek to enhance the conversation about scholarly teaching on campus and increase the practice of the scholarship of teaching and learning.  The request for proposals is now available at http://ctl.iupui.edu/Programs/CEG.   The deadline for submitting 2017 CEG proposals is January 27, 2017 at 11:59 p.m., EST.

The IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning seeks proposals from faculty teaching at universities across Indiana for the 2017 E.C. Moore Symposium on Excellence in Teaching. The symposium brings the Indiana higher education community together to examine teaching excellence and the instructional strategies employed in various disciplines to encourage student learning. Proposals should address one of the following: efforts to improve student learning and engagement, evidence-based practices in teaching, the scholarship of teaching and learning, the innovative use of instructional technology, and initiatives that promote excellence in teaching. Proposals that have application to other disciplines are strongly encouraged. The 2017 E.C. Moore Symposium will be held at the IUPUI Campus Center on Friday, March 3, 2017. 

Proposals will be accepted through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, November 6, 2016.

For more information, and to submit a proposal, please visit ecmoore.iupui.edu.

Most new faculty at large public universities enter the professoriate with training and support to conduct research, but few also enter with equivalent preparation and support for their teaching. The Early Career Teaching Academy provides a setting within which faculty members can create and develop a powerful teaching career, one that is rooted in evidence-based active learning strategies and high-impact educational practices, and designed to facilitate student success.

The academy convenes in two intensive sessions:  one full-day, and one half-day session. These sessions focus on the effective development and assessment of active learning teaching strategies suited to IUPUI’s diverse student body. By the second session, faculty are able to articulate the teaching strategies they plan to implement.

The next academy will be held on Friday, February 3, 2017, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Friday, February 10, 2017, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.  Click here for more information and to apply.  

Course-level internationalization is a critical step toward achieving IUPUI’s strategic plans for strengthening global learning across campus. Course-level internationalization involves introducing global content and intercultural perspectives into a new or existing course, either in a single module or across the entire semester. It aims to help students acquire competencies that will help prepare them to address complex disciplinary problems in an interconnected, globalized world. The process does not involve changing core content, but instead complements a course’s broader learning goals by getting students to think about the contexts and implications of disciplinary work.

This workshop will equip faculty to define global learning outcomes for their courses and to incorporate into their courses global issues relevant to their disciplinary context. In addition, participants will draft plans for implementing and assessing global learning outcomes. The workshop will last two and a half hours, and will be a joint offering between the IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning and the IUPUI Office of International Affairs.

Collaborative learning is associated with higher academic achievement and student engagement, in both face-to-face and online learning environments, and has been found to have a positive impact on a wide variety of students. In this webinar, participants will examine challenges faced by students and faculty in using collaborative techniques, learn about best practices to overcome these challenges, and discuss examples for implementing and assessing collaborative learning techniques for the online and face-to-face learning contexts.

Creating assignments that align with and allow for the accurate assessment of learning objectives requires careful planning. Such planning can help improve student understanding of your expectations, student achievement of your learning objectives, and can also set the stage for a smoother assessment process. This webinar will review methods for designing or refining assignments to target specific objectives, for communicating critical assignment components to students, and for scaffolding assignments to help students achieve intended learning outcomes.

Faculty and other educators need time and support to incorporate high impact practices, new pedagogies, or online experiences into their teaching strategies, curricula, or co-curricular offerings. Teaching and learning enhancement grants can provide faculty and staff with the support needed to develop new or redesign existing courses, programs, and other learning experiences. Grant opportunities for faculty and staff at IUPUI include:

• Curriculum Enhancement Grants, offered by the Center for Teaching and Learning
• ePortfolio Grants, offered by the ePortfolio Initiative
• RISE to the IUPUI Challenge Curriculum Development Grants, offered by the RISE program
• RISE to the IUPUI Challenge/ePortfolio Initiative Curriculum Development Grants, offered by the RISE program and the ePortfolio Initiative

At this workshop, participants will learn basic information about each grant, eligibility requirements, and how to apply for the grants, plus answers to frequently asked questions.  Time for participant questions and discussion will be built into the session.  Click here for more information.

This workshop will be repeated on Friday, December 2nd, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. in UL 0110. 

As IUPUI begins the process of reviewing general education courses over the coming academic year, faculty who teach these courses will want to ensure that their course assignments are designed and assessed in alignment with their course learning outcomes and IUPUI General Education Competency Domains. This brown bag workshop will review the process of designing and assessing their assignments in alignment with those outcomes.

Note:  This workshop is also available on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.  Click here to register for the November 8th workshop.

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:  Assignments and Grading (November 1)

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

Center for Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), a network of 46 universities including IUPUI, focuses on advancing undergraduate education by preparing graduate students and postdocs to use evidence-based and reflective teaching practices. Visit CIRTL at IUPUI to learn more about how IUPUI graduate students and postdocs can participate in local and cross-network CIRTL activities and earn digital badges through a Canvas course to showcase their teaching development efforts to prospective employers.

Upcoming CIRTL Programming :

• Teaching in the US: This series is designed to help international TAs acclimate to the US higher education system.  Click here for instructions to join the series.
• October 2016 CIRTLCasts Series on Implementing Evidence-Based Techniques in Your Classroom to Enhance Student Learning. CIRTLCasts do not require prior registration. Click here for instructions to join CIRTLcasts.

Note: You do not need to be enrolled in the Canvas course to start participating in CIRTL local and cross-network programming.

Ford Foundation Fellowships:   

Through its program of Fellowships, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.

• Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships (Science, Engineering and Medicine)
• Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowships (Science, Engineering and Medicine)

The CTL’s Certificate in College Teaching program provides IUPUI graduate teaching assistants (graders, recitation leaders, primary classroom or lab instructors, etc.) with the opportunity to develop and document the college teaching skills that are critical for a successful academic career. Structured to be completed in three semesters, the program requires participants to attend workshops and webinars, as well as facilitated discussions with other program participants. Participants will create the foundational components of a teaching portfolio, including sample course materials, teaching observation reports, and a preliminary teaching philosophy statement. To apply, interested teaching assistants need to submit an online application form, a C.V., a one-page letter of interest, and a letter of support from their advising faculty member. Please note, space in the CCT program is limited; only ten teaching assistants will be accepted into the new cohort. Applications should be thorough and prepared with care and will be reviewed carefully. The application system is now open and applications will be due by 11:59 p.m. on November 6, 2016. Click here to apply to the Certificate in College Teaching Program.

The CCT program is not a K-12 teacher licensing program and is non-credit bearing. As a result, it will not appear on participants’ transcripts; however, it can and should be listed on participants’ C.V.s.

STEM Education Innovation Research institute (SEIRI) is hosting Dr. Ron Buckmire from NSF who will present and lead an interactive discussion on ways to improve your proposal grant writing abilities and achieve the best possible results when applying to the NSF DUE/EHR programs. The workshop is on Thursday, October 27, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the University Tower Ballroom. Click here for more information and to sign-up for the workshop. Lunch and light snacks will be provided at the event. NSF offers several grants and fellowships in disciplinary research and discipline-based educational research for faculty and graduate students.

Darla K. Deardorff, executive director of the Association of  International Education Administrators, will be the keynote speaker for  the 2016 William M. Plater Institute on the Future of Learning on  October 31st.  She will speak on the institute’s theme, “Global Learning:   Education for a Global Community.”  Dr. Deardorff is Executive Director of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA), based at Duke University.  Click here for more information.

The RISE program will be hosting a pre-conference workshop for students on Thursday, November 3, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. and a one-day conference, RISE Day 2016, on Friday, November 4, 9:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.  RISE Day showcases the work of students, staff, and faculty who teach courses with an emphasis on high-impact teaching practices, as well as our work with community partners.  This year's focus is "Study Abroad and Other International Experiences."  This is something for everyone- faculty, staff, students, and community partners.  All are welcome to attend all or part of this one day conference. 

If anyone has any questions, please contact Dr. Jennifer Thorington Springer (jtspring@iupui.edu) or Marisela Sanchez (sanchmar@indiana.edu).

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