CTL Happenings - Message #432

If you're creating a new fully online course or revising an existing one and will be teaching it in the next academic year, our this Bootcamp may be for you. It's an 8-week intensive, interactive online course where participants work with a cohort of peers to develop their course and experience the perspective of being an online student. See the event page for more information and to register.

Most new faculty enter the professoriate with training and support for their research, but few enter with equivalent preparation and support for their teaching. The Early Career Teaching Academy (ECTA) provides a program for faculty members to engage in conversations to develop effective teaching strategies that are situated in their own emerging teaching philosophies. The Academy invites applications from full-time faculty members in their first, second, or third year of teaching at IUPUI, IUPU Columbus, and Indiana University Fort Wayne.

The academy commences with two intensive sessions: one half-day on February 15 (morning), and one full-day session on February 22. Over the course of the next year, attendees are also required to attend four Faculty Learning Community meetings, held typically on Thursday or Friday mornings.

Click here for more information and to apply.  

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.

In this webinar, offered by the Centers for Teaching & Learning, we will explore and discuss the structure of Canvas, IU’s learning management system. The presentation will give instructors an understanding of the interactivity of Canvas tools and how that influences the way courses are set up.  You will learn how to

• share your syllabus
• create and grade assignments 
• communicate with your students
• get to know your students
• effectively use Canvas for teaching

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

GoReact is a video coaching, assessment, and observation tool that is now available at Indiana University.  Faculty can embed time-coded feedback into virtual and face-to-face presentations and observations.  This workshop will introduce you to the GoReact tool and how it works in Canvas.

GoReact will allow faculty to:

• provide time-coded feedback for live presentations;
• use video comments to correct pronunciation or vocabulary in foreign language or pitch in performing arts;
• create a feedback loop where student self reflect, receive peer feedback, and instructor feedback all in one place;
• access GoReact directly through Canvas for use with posting grades to the gradebook

Watch this short video for a quick overview of what GoReact can do. 

NOTE:  This event is also repeated from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 12, 2018.  Click here to register for this 2:30 p.m. session.

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

GoReact is a video coaching, assessment, and observation tool that is now available at Indiana University.  Faculty can embed time-coded feedback into virtual and face-to-face presentations and observations.  Lunch is provided during this workshop as you are introduced to the GoReact tool and how it works in Canvas.

GoReact will allow faculty to:

• provide time-coded feedback for live presentations;
• use video comments to correct pronunciation or vocabulary in foreign language or pitch in performing arts;
• create a feedback loop where student self reflect, receive peer feedback, and instructor feedback all in one place;
• access GoReact directly through Canvas for use with posting grades to the gradebook

Watch this short video for a quick overview of what GoReact can do.

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

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.

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: 

• Frame the Problem   |  December 13, 8:30 -10:30 a.m. - Register
• Find Existing Data    |   December 13, 10:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. – Register 

This three-session series is designed to train participants to communicate complex scientific topics more effectively to non-experts like patients, learners, lawmakers, and funders.

Session 1: Feb. 12, 4:00 -6:00 p.m., Connecting With Your Audience 
Session 2:  Feb. 19, 4:00- 6:00 p.m., Distilling Your Message 
Session 3: Feb. 26, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Media Training for Scientists and Physicians

All participants are asked to commit to the entire three workshop series, as each session builds upon the previous. For class descriptions and to register click here.  Please note: If you register for this event, you will be registered for all three sessions. 

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

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

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

Lieberman, M. (Nov. 28, 2018). Q&A: Making sense of universal design for learning. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/y7zlkrn7.

Universal design for learning (UDL) is an approach to course design and teaching and that focuses on ways to remove or mitigate barriers to student learning. In this Q&A article, Tobin and Behling, authors of a new book on UDL, discuss the motivations behind UDL, its implications for higher education, and their own experiences with faculty who have implemented UDL in their classes.