CTL Happenings - Message #443

Register for the 2019 E.C. Moore Symposium on Excellence in Teaching scheduled for March 8, 2019. This year’s symposium will feature a keynote address by Dr. Nancy Budwig, professor of psychology at Clark University, Creating a Culture of Integrative Learning to Support Signature Work. The plenary address, Reflect, Refract, Reframe: Thinking about Teaching. Thinking about  Our Students will be delivered by Keith Anliker, senior lecturer of chemistry in the School of Science at IUPUI and recipient of the 2018 IUPUI Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

The E.C. Moore Symposium brings the Indiana higher education community together to examine teaching excellence and the instructional strategies employed in various disciplines to encourage student learning. This year’s symposium will feature concurrent sessions, a poster session, and other opportunities to interact with colleagues. To read more and to register visit: ecmoore.iupui.edu. 

Institutional Research and Decision Support (IRDS) will once again be collaborating with the Center for Teaching and Learning to offer a series of training sessions on IUPUI data available to faculty and staff.  This year’s sessions, listed below, are organized around specific topics designed to give you more in-depth, detailed knowledge of an area of interest. 

• Understanding Course Enrollment Trends and Information, Feb. 28, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., Register 
• Admissions and Enrollment Point-in-Cycle, March 6, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m., Register
• Using Blue Online Course Evaluation at IUPUI: Benefits, Challenges, and Lessons Learned for Improving Teaching and Learning, April 2, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m., Register

The Profiles of Learning for Undergraduate Success (IUPUI+), our new institutional undergraduate learning outcomes, have replaced the Principles of Undergraduate Learning (PULs) and Principles of Co-Curricular Learning (PCLs). They are written with an active orientation, using student-facing language, and are applicable to all student-facing units. Administrators of all undergraduate programs, and instructors of general education courses and capstone courses, are expected to be among the first to map their learning outcomes to IUPUI+. 

In this hands-on workshop, facilitators will provide a brief overview of IUPUI+, share examples of academic and co-curricular programs and courses that already have been mapped, and introduce tools, resources, and processes that participants can use to map their own learning outcomes. Register for one of the following: 

•   Tuesday, March 19, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.  
•    Monday, April 15, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. 
•    Thursday, May 2, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Mark Goodner from IU eTexts will be on campus. He looks forward to having the opportunity to chat with you to help you learn more about IU eTexts, answer your questions, discuss your ideas, consider transitions, submit order requests, or integrate Engage into your pedagogy. Please share this invitation across your department, your school, and your campus.

Please e-mail mgoodner@iu.edu to schedule a half-hour timeslot for your individual/group consultation. If you cannot find a time that will work on the 20th Mark will schedule a Zoom meeting for another day!

Join us for lunch on Friday, March 29, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. as we host a round of "Speed dating with Learning Technologies" in Lecture Hall, 104. Faculty participants will have approximately 10 minutes to "speed date" (i.e., learn about) a specific tool or service before moving to their next "date." 

Matchmakers (those presenting each tool/service) include staff from the Center for Teaching and Learning at IUPUI, eLearning Design & Services, the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, IU Bloomington, UITS Digital Education Programs & Initiatives, and Collaboration Technologies. A few faculty presenters will also discuss tools they're currently using.

This highly-interactive event will give you a chance to gain quick (yet informative) technology overviews, while posing direct questions to staff who represent several teams within Learning Technologies and UITS.

We'll have at least 9 tools and services for you to choose from:

• Accessibility
• Affordable Content: Open Educational Resources
• CN Post
• Interactive content in Pressbooks
• Kaltura
• Quick Check
• Top Hat Classroom
• Virtual Reality: Google Tour Builder
• Zoom

Deadline to register is Friday, March 15.  Register today!

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

To find out more information and to submit a proposal, visit: The Teach, Play, Learn Conference

ProfessorPedia is a searchable collection of 2000+ terms relevant to teaching and teachers. You can explore the content most relevant to your work – and where you are in your career path – along with examples, references, and helpful links.

* Note: Be sure to join the conversation around particular terms. You can interact with the ProfessorPedia community by adding comments, and asking and answering questions, on terms of interest to you.

Are you looking to find information about the students enrolled in your courses? What about information on students enrolled in past semesters? Do you know where to look for information as students begin to register for fall? A lot of information on course enrollment is available if you know where to look and who to ask. This session will show you currently available online tools from the Office of Institutional Research and Decision Support (IRDS) to display information on course enrollment, both in real time and at crucial decision points.  Staff from the Registrar’s Office and IRDS will also discuss other resources readily available to help you find the information you need. Those who take part in this session will be able to find and use a variety of resources related to course enrollment that will help you get the information you need for critical decision making. This event is co-sponsored by Institutional Research and Decision Support and the Center for Teaching and Learning.

Have you ever considered how you could keep teaching if there were an unplanned campus closure? A variety of circumstances might require you to temporarily take your class online with minimal notice: a campus closure due to a natural disaster, increased absenteeism during a flu outbreak, or a family emergency requiring your presence elsewhere. In this webinar, we'll discuss some general principles that can help you prepare for the unexpected and adapt as quickly and smoothly as possible, as well as the various university resources that are available to support you.

This event aligns with the following IUSM Academy of Teaching Scholars program competencies: Curriculum and Course Design (C), Instructional Technology (IT).

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.

Faculty who seek to refine and promote their teaching efforts may document their work through the development of a teaching portfolio, a site where faculty engage in reflective practice to measure the effectiveness of, and to refine, their teaching practices. This webinar introduces faculty to the teaching portfolio and to the several interrelated tasks that yield the teaching portfolio's elements: developing a teaching philosophy, identifying  specific teaching practices to explore, document, and to improve, situating identified teaching practices in appropriate context, and collecting and evaluating evidence of teaching and learning.

The definition of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) has emerged over three decades and embodies a wide range of the work faculty do as well as the measures of success necessary to peer dissemination and review. This rich and complex area of teaching plays a central part in ensuring effective student learning and faculty advancement. In this workshop, participants will analyze workable definitions of SoTL as points of reference for the elements of SoTL (project development, implementation, and assessment of success) that are crucial for pursuing, documenting, and recognizing SoTL achievements. Using these definitions, participants will self-assess their SoTL needs and goals and move on to exploring existing and potential collaborations on how and where SoTL occurs in and has an impact on IUPUI.

This event aligns with the following IUSM Academy of Teaching Scholars program competencies: Assessment Methods and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (A).

• The webinar for Making the most of guest lecturing will be March 19, 2019 from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.  To read more or to register.

• Join CIRTL at IUPUI to build your resume and more. 

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.

Student success is an all-encompassing goal. It involves steering students into pathways on which they can succeed, helping students learn in meaningful courses and programs, guiding them to internships and preparing them for careers.  True success involves not just one of those tasks but all of them.

During the webcast, Inside Higher Ed editors Scott Jaschik and Doug Lederman will go over examples of institutions that are going above and beyond to optimize the student experience, best practices, and more.  Download the free related booklet.

This online, interactive session is designed to help faculty members create learning objectives when developing educational content for the clinic, classroom, or lab. Participants will be introduced to the purpose of learning objectives, how to create objectives, and how to link objectives to assessment. Interactive activities will help attendees think through creating assessable learning objectives.

The Mosaic Faculty Fellows program provides an opportunity across two semesters for faculty to explore and reflect upon active learning approaches with other Mosaic Fellows. The call for the next round of Fellows is out and can be found on the Mosaic Initiative site. The deadline for application is March 22. Click here for more information.

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. SAVI Training is a hands-on curriculum focused on data literacy from end to end.  Workshops are offered every other week.

• Find Meaning in Data | March 14, 8:30 – 11:30 a.m. – Register
• Tell Stories with Data | March 28, 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. - Register
• Frame the Problem | April 4, 8:30 -10:30 a.m. – Register
• Find Existing Data | April 4, 10:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. – Register
• Create and Use Survey Data | April 18, 9:00 -11:00 a.m. – Register 

This workshop will introduce the concepts and tenets of critical service learning and equity-mindedness for consideration in service learning course and project design.  This workshop is introductory and aims to present critical service learning as a pedagogical model for designing and integrating service learning with a social justice lens. Register

The 8th Annual Conference of the Peer-Led Team Learning International Society will be held Thursday - Saturday, June 6 - 8, 2019. This event is hosted by IUPUI STEM Education Innovation and Research Institute (SEIRI).  For more information, click here.

Boser, U. (2019, February 19). Teaching the skill of learning to learn. Inside Higher Education. Retrieved from: http://tinyurl.com/yy5qwd4g.

Students perform better in class when instructors teach them how to learn effectively. Ulrich Boser argues that students benefit a great deal when they engage in learning practices that are active in nature. Instructors can help students learn in ways that go beyond combining the highlighter and textbook.