CTL Happenings - Message #427

A best practice is to formulate and put your teaching philosophy into writing. However, it can be challenging. This workshop will enable anyone who teaches to begin a step-wise process based on critical reflection to discover and articulate their teaching philosophy. Participants will receive a workbook to guide them through completing the process on their own. This event is co-sponsored by FACET. Click here for more information and to register.

Join us February 8, 2019, 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. for the Indiana Digital Learning Summit to learn about digital courseware and adaptive learning technologies to enhance student learning and reduce achievement gaps.

Kaltura interactive video quizzes, now part of the Kaltura integration in Canvas, let you embed multiple choice questions and class feedback polls at any point in a video. Flexible settings mean you can choose whether to allow students to repeat sections, request hints, receive explanations, or skip questions. For instructions, visit the Kaltura knowledge base.

Have you heard of IUPUI+ but aren’t sure how or if to incorporate IUPUI+ in your courses or programs? In this workshop, you will learn what IUPUI+ is, how it was developed, and why it’s important for our students. You also will find out how and where IUPUI+ should be implemented. Resources will be shared to assist you in incorporating IUPUI+ in programs, courses, assignments, or learning experiences.

This workshop is also offered on the following dates:

• Wed., Nov. 7, 2018, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Register 
• Mon., Nov 19, 2018, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Register
• Tue., Nov. 27, 2018, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Register

In this webinar, Kelley professor Lin Zheng will share her experience of teaching a global business course using CourseNetworking (CN). In this course, students used CN ePortfolio to document their study abroad journey to China and communicate with their instructor and peers. Professor Lin Zheng will discuss their use of CN ePortfolio, showcase students' ePortfolios and share her thoughts on enhancing international learning as part of the RISE initiative. 

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.

This workshop is being offered in two formats: in person and online.  When you register, you will be prompted to choose how you would like to attend.

In this webinar, instructors will share how they used Piazza to deliver supplemental course content, host discussions, help students collaborate online to solve problems, and measure participation. Piazza enables students to share explanations to problems and misunderstandings that arise on the homework, thereby ensuring that small technical issues do not derail student progress. 

Instructors can provide hints, endorse answers, and add comments to build a complete response to a question. Students can post follow-up questions if the response was not enough to get them past the trouble spot. This helps to establish a learning community where students are helping one another. Instructors can also use Piazza to encourage, record and measure participation for specific discussion topics. Measuring and incentivizing participation fairly and effectively is challenging, but Piazza can help.

This event aligns with the following IUSM Academy of Teaching Scholars program competencies: Instructional Technology (IT).

These presentations investigate questions about teaching and learning, including assessing the effectiveness of specific learning activities and tools, examining the learning process, or characterizing the student experience in the classroom. Register for this online event on Wednesday, November 28, 2018 5-6:30 p.m. 

Presenters from across the country share their expertise on teaching and learning topics in STEM education to prepare graduate students for future faculty careers. Sign up for a free CIRTL network account to enroll in upcoming CIRTL cross-network courses and events.

Have a program, course, or project that others need to know about, but find yourself short on travel funds? Does your project have a community-engagement or civic learning component?  The Center for Service and Learning has funds for small dissemination grants between $250 and $750. Click here to learn more.

The Polis Center at IUPUI is offering a series of free workshops to build data literacy skills and use the SAVI community information system as a resource. See the workshops offered below: 

• Avoid Data Pitfalls   |  November 1, 9:00-11:00 a.m. - Register
  
• Find Meaning in the Data   |   November 15, 8:30-10:30 a.m. – Register
• Make Decisions with Data   |  November 29, 9:00 -11:00 a.m. - Register

The Polis Center at IUPUI is hosting SAVI Talks School Change free public forum will be held Thursday, Nov. 8, 7:45-10:00 a.m. at WFYI. Report authors Matt Nowlin, Kelly Davila, and Unai Miguel Andres will share highlights from a new  report which looks at change in school quality and performance from 2010-2016, and compare the results to the main points in Polis’ spring report, “Neighborhood Change Since 1970: Suburbanization, Gentrification, and Suburban Redevelopment.” RSVP here.

This well-designed experience includes identifying appropriate community partner(s) and including community partner voice in project planning. In this session, we will discuss some of the important principles of working with community partners as well as key ways in which to find, identify, and connect with community partners for specific course projects. Click for more information. 

Registration is open for FACET’s Associate Faculty and Lecturer Conference which will be held on November 9-10 at the Sheraton Indianapolis Center. More information and registration is available on the FACET website.

Register now for the National Symposium on Universal Design in Instruction and Learning (NSUDIL).   This event will be held November 16 - 17, 2018 in Columbus, Indiana. Keynote speakers will be Drs. Sheryl Burgstahler and Loui Lord Nelson, both of whom are experts in the field of Universal Design in Instruction and Learning. 

The symposium will be comprised of two concurrent tracks, a Higher Education track and a Teacher Education track. We welcome proposals for either or both of the tracks and that align with any of the following themes: 

• Universal Design for Instruction
• Universal Design for Learning
• Teaching all Learners
• Transparent Teaching
• Active Learning Environments
• Design Thinking in Teaching and Learning 

A reduced registration fee of $125 will be offered to those selected to present.  For more information on the symposium, visit the NSUDIL webpage.   To submit a proposal, visit the online submission form page.  Direct any questions to Karen Garrity.

Call for Presentations, workshops and posters deadline is Friday, February 15, 2019 for the 8th Annual PEER-LED TEAM LEARNING INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY.  Among the threads to be explored are:  (1)Sustainability of PLTL campus programs; (2)Critical thinking, meta-cognition, and PLTL; (3)Discourse analysis including cyberPLTL; (4)PLTL and the sense of belonging; (5)Workplace skills development and PLTL; (6)Implementations in non-STEM disciplines.  For more information, contact Dr. Ne'Shaun Jones

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

Save The Dates:  Thursday - Saturday, June 6 - 8, 2019 for the 8th Annual Conference of the Peer-Led Team Learning International Society.  Watch for the Call for Presentations that will be posted by September 1, 2018 at www.pltlis.org.  This event is hosted by IUPUI STEM Education Innovation and Research Institute (SEIRI).  For more information:  info@pltlis.org

Parrish, G. (2018, Sept. 5). Jedi training: Developing habits of perception in our disciplines. Faculty Focus.  https://tinyurl.com/ycunpwq7

As a practitioner in your discipline, you develop habits of mind over the years. Disciplinary ways of looking at and thinking about things are often implicit but faculty often wonder why it is so difficult to convey to their students. In this article, Parrish discusses class activities that can be used to make these habits of mind explicit and provide students with structured opportunities to practice the habits themselves.