CTL Happenings - Message #400

The Center for Teaching and Learning will recognize the 2018 Curriculum Enhancement Grant (CEG) awardees at a reception on Thursday, April 26, 4-5 p.m., as they begin their projects.  The CTL welcomes the PIs, co-PIs, those who supported their applications, and other members of the IUPUI community to the reception. CEG projects will run from May 2018 through June 2019 and scholars will present their work at the CEG Symposium in October 2019.  Register for the reception here.

As part of IU’s membership in the Unizin Consortium, a new agreement between Unizin and McGraw-Hill provides students a flat fee of $35 for any McGraw-Hill eText. Digital learning tools like McGraw-Hill Connect are available for $50-60.

Faculty: summer and fall ordering is open now at One.IU. Just search "Textbook Orders (Faculty)" to select an IU eText from more than 30 publishers. Learn more about using eTexts in the IU eTexts Canvas course or contact your campus teaching and learning center for assistance.

Read about IU's commitment to affordable content here.

Instructors, sign up for the learningtechnologies-l mailing list to stay abreast of important news and information related to Canvas, Zoom, Kaltura, and other UITS-supported technologies for teaching and learning. To join the list, follow the instructions in https://kb.iu.edu/d/awbu.

Civic learning is a form of integrative learning that supports students for informed and engaged participation as citizens and professionals in their communities and society at large. Intentional design of civic learning experiences powerful learning environments in which students can wrestle with issues and further their civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Civic learning can be cultivated using a variety of teaching and learning practices, including but not limited to service-learning. In this webinar, participants will learn more about relevant conceptual frameworks, identify features of civic learning goals and assessments that align with such goals.

Do you know how much your school spends on financial aid and scholarships? What about the number of students receiving Pell grants at the school? What is the profile of students receiving institutional scholarships from different schools and units? All this information can easily be found by faculty and staff at IUPUI using online tools which you can easily access.

This session will show you financial aid and scholarship reports from Indiana University Institutional Research and Reporting (UIRR), IUPUI Institutional Research and Decision Support (IRDS), and a variety of other sources. Those who take part in this session will be able to find and use a variety of financial aid reports and information for decision making within their school.

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 will be offered at IUPUI as an in-person workshop, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m, with a one hour break for lunch.  Participants are free to bring their own lunch or to take advantage of the many options available on campus. To receive the QM certificate of completion for this workshop, participants must be present for and participate in the entire workshop.

As IUPUI begins the process of reviewing general education courses, course coordinators or faculty responsible for preparing course portfolios for review may have questions about the information and materials that need to go into the portfolios. This workshop will provide an overview of the course review process, a review of course portfolio requirements, the process for assembling and submitting the portfolio, and the rubric that will be used to review the course portfolios. Examples from existing course portfolios will be incorporated into the workshop. Questions and discussion will be encouraged.  

Are you responsible for revising an existing asynchronous online course or creating a new one? (An asynchronous online course is one with little to no real-time interaction in any format)

Will you be teaching that course in the next two semesters?

If you answered "yes" to both of those questions, the Online Course Design and Development Bootcamp may be for you. The Bootcamp is an 8-week intensive, interactive online course running from May 15th through June 20^th. It provides

• a structured introduction to online course design theory, research, and practice, including visual design, accessibility, usability, and media use and development.
• weekly assignments where you will create of parts of your asynchronous online course and share them with facilitators and peers for feedback and discussion.
• the experience of being an online student in an interactive, asynchronous, online course.

Participants are expected to make active progress on their course development every week, spending 4-5 hours each week on Bootcamp work. By the end of the 8 weeks you should have your course structure, student orientation, syllabus, and 1-2 weeks of your course assignments, instruction, and content completed in a Canvas course site plus a clear plan for completing your course development.

Participants who successfully complete the Bootcamp will earn a Designing an Online Course badge from the IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning.

For more information and to register, please visit the Online Course Design and Development Bootcamp event on the CTL Website.

This session provides TILT Pilot participants with an opportunity to receive feedback on assignments you have or will revise to implement in either summer or fall 2018. Please bring three copies of your assignment(s) to the session. More information about the Transparency in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (TILT Higher Ed) project is available here.

Interested in learning from presenters from across the country as they share their expertise on teaching and learning topics in STEM education? Sign up for a free CIRTL network account to enroll in upcoming CIRTL cross-network courses and events.

CIRTL at IUPUI is offering a series of panel discussions on Exploring inclusive teaching within STEM disciplines. Faculty and student panelists will discuss the structural, demographic, curricular, and pedagogical challenges specific to and across the following STEM disciplines in higher education:

• Inclusive Teaching in Mathematics and Infomatics will be held on Thursday, April 26, 2018 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. Click here to learn more and register for this event.

• Reflections from IUPUI’s Culturally Responsive Teaching Learning Community will be held on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. Click here to learn more and register for this event.

The Teach, Play, Learn Conference, Indiana University’s 1^st annual academic conference on game-based teaching and learning is accepting proposals for presentations on real-life usage, empirical studies, and/or theoretical discussions. We are particularly interested in interactive workshops involving the best practices of teaching with games or playful elements in the classroom.

Possible topics may include:

• use of board, card, or video games for educational purposes
• gamification of the course
• simulations and role playing
• use of Augmented and/or Virtual Reality (AR, VR)
• study and research of games in the context of education
• use of games in other educational contexts

The inaugural conference will be held on Friday, June 22, 2018, 8:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. at IU South Bend’s Education and Arts building.  Proposals must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, April 27th, 2018.   For more information and to submit your proposal please visit: https://tpl.iu.edu/call-for-proposals

This new fellowship program, created by Course Hero and administered by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, supports rising post-secondary education “stars” who love teaching, demonstrate excellence as educators, and are making their mark as exceptional researchers, poised to shape their fields.

Eligible candidates will be tenure-track faculty either in the arts and sciences, or in a business school, who have successfully completed their institutional review at the midpoint of their progress toward tenure. In its inaugural round, the program is designed to support five Course Hero-WW Fellows, awarding one-year, one-time fellowships of $40,000—approximately $30,000 to support the engagement of a student assistant and the balance to be used for research and travel support. 

Deadline for all applications: April 30, 2018. Please Note:  Applicants may NOT be going up for tenure during the award year (2018-19).   More information and on-line application can be found here.  

Register for the 2018 IUPUI Research Academy.  This intense, interactive 2  1/2 day workshop is designed to develop research skills, learn about methods and service learning literature, and develop a research project related to service learning.  This year’s Research Academy will begin at 1:30 p.m. on May 9 and conclude at 12:30 p.m. on May 11, 2018. 

The Center for Service and Learning is excited to announce that Dr. Howard Rosing from DePaul University will join us as a faculty facilitator this year.  Dr. Rosing will also be presenting on Conducting Community Engaged Research .  Please contact Tom Hahn, CSL Director of Research and Program Evaluation, at tomhahn@iupui.edu for additional information.  Click here to register.

ISETL encourages college and university faculty and practitioners from all disciplines to develop, study, and apply learner-centered principles of teaching, learning, and assessment in innovative, yet effective and practical ways. They invite proposals for 50-minute presentations - interactive teaching sessions, academic research sessions, round-tables or poster sessions - that reflect these goals.  They are especially interested in presentations that demonstrate practical and creative teaching and learning techniques based on personal experiences and/or research that will appeal to colleagues in a wide variety of disciplines. Proposals are due May 15, 2018. 

The annual conference of the International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning will be held October 10-13, 2018, in Tempe, AZ. Click here for registration information.  

As FACET celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2018, they are excited to reflect on three decades of changes and continuing challenges in teaching and learning. Join members, from the inaugural FACET class (1989), new inductees, and all members in between, to discuss issues and concerns over time in higher education ranging from teaching and learning in specific courses, to pedagogical challenges of engagement to political struggles in and about higher education.

The retreat will be on May 18-20, 2018. More information about the dates and location can be found at the FACET website. Also, please consider facilitating a session. For those interested in facilitating a session, you can find the form here.  

There are a variety of ways faculty, staff, and administrators can enhance their knowledge and share their expertise in global and intercultural learning this year. The Office of International Affairs has a small fund available to offset a portion of the associated costs of these professional development opportunities.

For information about the opportunities, click here: http://international.iupui.edu/global-learning/grants

For information about funding, contact Dr. Leslie A. Bozeman, Director of Curriculum Internationalization lbozeman@iupui.edu.

Weimer, M. (2017, September 20). How should I study for the exam? Faculty Focus. Retrieved on April 16, 2018 from goo.gl/5tvRW8.   

This article includes a link to a survey that can be implemented in any course to prompt self-reflection of study habits after an exam.  The author also briefly discusses how, despite the fact that most students say they need to study, very few actually implement effective strategies that promote deep learning.