CTL Happenings - Message #428

On February 8, 2019, the Plater Institute on the Future of Learning and Leap INdiana will present the Indiana Digital Learning Summit. We seek proposals for fast-paced, dynamic 10-minute presentations/demonstrations focused on the use of digital courseware and adaptive learning technologies to enhance student learning and reduce achievement gaps. Proposals are due on Monday, December 10, 11:59 p.m. Click here for more information.

The IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning seeks proposals from faculty teaching at higher education institutions across Indiana for the 2019 E.C. Moore Symposium on Excellence in Teaching. We would especially welcome proposals that address topics such as: efforts to improve student learning and engagement, inclusive excellence, integrative learning, novel general education courses or curricula, creative use of instructional technology, and initiatives that promote excellence in teaching. Proposals should clearly demonstrate relevance to a broad range of disciplines. The 2019 E.C. Moore Symposium will be held on Friday, March 8th at the IUPUI Campus Center.

Proposals will be accepted through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 11:59 p.m. Click here for more information and to submit a proposal.

The Curriculum Enhancement Grant (CEG)  provides faculty with technical and instructional support, time, and funds to implement projects designed to improve student learning and success at IUPUI, IUPU Columbus, and IUFW. 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 grant supports a wide range of faculty projects designed to improve student learning and success. See the 2019 Curriculum Enhancement Grant Request for Proposals for more information. The deadline for proposal submissions is Friday, January 25, 2019, 11:59 p.m.

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.

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.

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).

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 date:

• Tue., Nov. 27, 2018, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Register

The Piazza University Engagement team will join CITL staff to discuss using the wiki-like features of Piazza, a Q&A platform integrated into Canvas. This session will demonstrate Piazza, including specific use cases, how Piazza facilitates participation among hesitant students, and how Piazza can save time by supplying an instructor-monitored platform for peer problem-solving. Q&A with participants will follow.

A best practice is to formulate and put your philosophy of teaching into writing. Many applications for grants, fellowship, award, or position that requires a statement of your teaching philosophy. The purpose of this workshop is to help you discover and articulate the assumptions that guide your teaching practices. Through a process of critical reflection, you will grow in awareness of the assumptions you make about teaching and learning, which is the first (and ongoing) step toward articulating your philosophy of teaching. Becoming aware of your teaching philosophy has several benefits:

• You can align your teaching methods with who you are and what you believe
• You can explore whether this is the philosophy you want to have
• It can highlight aspects of your teaching you want to change
• You can more fully develop your teaching persona

After the workshop, you will be able to see what patterns emerge. Then, you will use these patterns to discover and write down your teaching philosophy.

Are you responsible for creating a new fully online course or revising an existing one?

Will you be teaching that course in the next academic year?

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 offered by the IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning in the spring and summer sessions. 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 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. Previous participants report spending at least 6-7 hours each week working with Bootcamp materials, interacting with other faculty participants, and developing their online course. Course activity occurs throughout the week so you will need to check in regularly.

The Final Project is due the week after the end of the Bootcamp. The Final Project includes a welcoming, usable, and accessible Canvas course site complete with your course structure, student orientation/getting started information, syllabus, and at least 1 week of your course assignments, instruction, and content plus your plan for completing your course development. 

Participants who successfully complete the Bootcamp will earn the Designing an Online Course badge from the IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning.  For more information and to register, click here.

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.

Applications are now being accepted for the Faculty Learning Community (FLC): Conducting SoTL on Service Learning. Complete application packets may be submitted either via email to Tom Hahn (tomhahn@iupui.edu) or dropped off at CSL, Hine Hall Room 243, by 5:00 pm on Monday November 12, 2018. 

Any questions about application procedures may be sent to Tom Hahn or Morgan Studer at mohughes@iupui.edu.  Award notification will be emailed by November 15, 2018.    

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: 

• 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.

Community partners are essential to the development of meaningful community-engaged curricular learning experiences. 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 and registration.

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

Nicolazzo, Z. (2018, October 12). Strategies for creating more trans*-affirmative classrooms. Inside Higher Ed.

Transgender students face a number of challenges while in college, including attending classes. In this article, the author encourages instructors to take an active role in creating a welcoming environment for transgender students and discusses several strategies instructors can use in their classroom to achieve this goal.