CTL Happenings - Message #444

The Center for Teaching and Learning is undergoing renovations to create a new and exciting space for faculty. 

We will be closed Monday, March 11 – Thursday, March 14, 2019 for renovation work that will be taking place within the CTL space. The CTL consultants will still be reachable, and will be conducting consultations via phone and Zoom.  Please contact the CTL by either calling 317-274-1300 or email thectl@iupui.edu and we will respond to you as quickly as possible. The CTL will reopen on Friday, March 15, 2019 at 8:00 a.m.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. 

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. 

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.

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.

• The webinar Teaching Portfolio Guide for Graduate Students and Postdocs will be held on Thursday, April 4th, 2019, 11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. in Taylor Hall, Room UC 2110. Click to get more information and 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.

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. Click here to 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.

Barnett, P. E. (2013). Unpacking teachers' invisible knapsacks: social identity and privilege in higher education. Liberal Education, 99(3), n3. Retreived from:  http://tinyurl.com/y58zhg6b

Students perceptions of their instructors impact the expectations they have for the class and how they interact with peers and the instructor.  Instructors can increase awareness of the privileges they have in the classroom and how that affects student perceptions by unpacking their “invisible knapsacks.” In this article, the author expands upon Peggy McIntosh’s list of privileges for instructors to reflect on their privileges and suggests steps they can take to create a more inclusive classroom.