CTL Happenings - Message #445

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 22.  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.

Dr. Seann Dikkers, founder of Dikkers Appraisal will be the keynote speaker for this event scheduled July 12, 2019, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.  Click to find out more information. Click here to submit your proposal.

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.

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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.

In this session of the Teaching with Technology Faculty Showcase, Professor Andy Gavrin will discuss his experience using Top Hat to engage students in an introductory physics class. He focuses on using it to make a large lecture more interactive, but the techniques will be usable in small classes, and across disciplines. Andy will also say a few words about how he integrates Top Hat into the grading scheme and other course structures in Canvas.

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

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).

This workshop introduces faculty and staff to the Quality Matters (QM) Rubric and to the QM Process. Quality Matters is a nationally recognized quality assurance organization for online course design, and the QM Process is a faculty-led peer review process that uses the research-based standards (criteria)  of the QM Rubric to certify online courses. Eventually, many online courses within the IU system will undergo the QM Process with the goal of achieving national QM recognition. Faculty may also use the QM Rubric as a guide to design online courses. And, for faculty who are interested, this course serves as a pre-requisite for QM's Peer Reviewer Course, which is a required course for faculty who seek certification as a QM Peer Reviewer, allowing them to participate in QM course reviews for courses created here at IU and at other universities.

The workshop will be offered at IUPUI as an in-person workshop, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., with a one hour break for lunch.  Participants are free to bring their own lunch or to take advantage of the many options available on campus. To receive the QM certificate of completion for this workshop, participants must be present for and participate in the entire workshop.

Open Educational Resources (OER) are a great solution for making class material affordable (or free!) for your students. In this webinar we will discuss definitions of OER, Creative Commons licensing, and OER resources available at IU. 

One of those resources is Pressbooks, a tool that allows you or your students to write manuals, articles, books, and more for a variety of uses including sharing with others as open educational resources. It can also be used to adopt existing OER into your courses. Learn how you can integrate Pressbooks into your classroom.

Pressbooks lets you -- and your students -- author with ease! Join this webinar to learn how student writing assignments can expand both within and beyond the classroom, by creating a published digital artifact. In this webinar, instructors will share how their students compiled and published their written work that incorporated images, videos, links, and slides. Additionally, instructors can use Pressbooks to create affordable, up-to-date, and engaging course texts, and publish them in multiple digital formats. The presenters will also discuss their decision to use Pressbooks and what they hope to achieve.

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

Student feedback from end-of-course evaluations (Student Evaluations of Teaching, or SETs) are commonly collected by faculty and academic administrators, but how much do you know about:

• the IU/Explorance Blue Enterprise System course evaluation system used at IUPUI,
• the extent to which IUPUI uses this system to gather student data,
• how the campus uses the collected data to improve teaching and learning, and about
• how to leverage your course evaluations to improve your teaching and your students’ learning? 

This session will highlight some best pratices associated with SETs, and participants engage in an interactive discussion about how IUPUI faculty are using student feedback to improve teaching and learning. You will also learn about the benefits, challenges, and lessons learned from a campus-wide implementation of the IU / Explorance Blue Enterprise System at IUPUI.

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

• The workshop  Drafting Your Diversity Statement will be held on Wednesday, April 17, 2019, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. at University Library, Room UL 1126. Click to get more information and register.

• A CIRTL cross-network webinar on Understanding Diversity and Inclusive Teaching in the Community College Setting will be held on Thursday, April 11, 1:00 -2:30 p.m.

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.

• 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.

Malamed, C. (2019). 8 Principles on cognitive load and collaborative learning, The eLearning Coach. Retreived from: http://tinyurl.com/yxup6rg9

Collaborative learning is a common practice in both in-person and online courses – especially in flipped classes. This article discusses points to consider when developing collaborative learning activities to improve their effectiveness.