CTL Happenings - Message #354

The QM 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.

In-person QM workshops will be offered on the following dates.  Each workshop will be from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  To register for an event or for more information, click on the dates listed below.

Note:  Participants must be present for and participate in the entire workshop to receive QM certificate.

This webinar is provided by IU Top Hat representative, Sarah Hammond, in partnership with IT Training.

After a university-wide pilot, Top Hat has been selected as Indiana University’s new student response system. TurningPoint Cloud will continue to be available for Spring and Summer 2017 terms, but will no longer be supported in Fall 2017.

Top Hat is an interactive, cloud-based teaching platform that enables instructors to engage students both inside and outside the classroom with compelling content and activities.

Note to Instructors: Prior to this session, please prepare by taking the steps below:

1. Review this provided Top Hat Overview page
2. Create your account by following the steps on this provided Indiana University - Single Sign-On Account Setup page

If questions, please contact Sarah Hammond (sarah.hammond@tophatmonocle.com)

What you'll learn:

• Use Top Hat to take attendance
• Use Top Hat to ask interactive questions with automated grading
• Use Top Hat to facilitate open-ended discussions and activities
• Use Top Hat's seamless integration with Canvas to update Top Hat rosters and send Top Hat grades to the Canvas gradebook

Note:  This workshop is also scheduled for Thur., June 22, 2:30 -3:30 p.m. Click here to register for the June 22 workshop.  

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.

This webinar is designed to help faculty consider best practices for evaluating course effectiveness. Evaluation refers to the process of determining whether student learning objectives or course outcomes are met. We will address the following questions:
• How do you develop an evaluation plan?
• What is formative versus summative evaluation?
• What are common data collection techniques?
• What are acceptable data analysis procedures?
• How can you ensure that your results are reliable?
• What should you do with your findings?

The presenters will include examples of STEM Education Innovation and Research Institute (SEIRI) evaluation projects that will enable attendees to apply these questions to their teaching contexts.

We have a new series of webinars to help you get up and running with Zoom, IU’s new video conferencing tool.  Beginners can start with Zoom: The Basics, and if you are ready, try a more advanced ZOOM workshop.

• Zoom:  The Basics; 11 a.m. - 12 noon (June 5)
  
• Zoom for Adobe Connect Users; 11 a.m. - 12 noon (June 6)
• Zoom: Getting More from Your Experience; 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. (June 13)

Watch for additional offerings related to Zoom coming during the summer months .

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: Getting Started for Instructors (June 15)

•The Teaching@IUPUI webinar on Teaching Metacognitive Skills will be held on Tuesday, June 13, 2017, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Click to get more information and register.

•The Teaching@IUPUI webinar on An Introduction to Course Evaluation and Assessment will be held on Wednesday, June 21, 2017, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.  Click to get more information and register.

•Sign up for a CIRTL network account to enroll in upcoming CIRTL cross-network courses, workshops, and events.

•  An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching will be offered starting Monday, June 12. This is a CIRTL Massive Open Online course designed to provide future STEM faculty, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, with an introduction to effective teaching strategies in the STEM disciplines and the research that supports them. Click here to register for this course.
  
• Developing a CV or Resume will be offered on Thursday, June 22 and Thursday, June 29, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. In this two-part online workshop, participants will learn how CVs and resumes vary for academic positions, non-academic positions, and grant applications. Click here to register for this workshop.

In this session, participants will learn how to get started with Qualtrics — a cloud-based survey tool designed for building and distributing surveys, viewing reports, and tabulating and analyzing responses. This session can apply to IU faculty, students, staff, and units who want to understand how to get access to Qualtrics and how to use Qualtrics for gathering and analyzing data on a basic level.

What You'll Learn:

-  Understand potential ways to use Qualtrics at IU
-  Prepare the survey and design the appearance to improve response rate
-  Navigate the basics of the interface
-  Build a simple survey
-  Distribute a survey
-  Collect data from a survey
-  Begin to analyze survey data
-  Share your survey/results with others
-  Find additional learning resources

Nominations are due by Monday, October 16, 2017 for Distinguished Professorships; Distinguished Teaching Awards; Associate Instructor Awards; the Ehrlich, Pinnell, and 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 Spring 2018. Click here to submit an award nomination. 

Siena, S. (2017, March 21). Developing media-savvy students. Inside Higher Ed.  https://tinyurl.com/ydy4qhr7