CTL Happenings - Message #446

Mark your calendar now: the CTL’s Advancing Teaching and Learning with Technology (ATLT) Symposium will be Friday, November 8, 2019. Come and learn how technology can influence teaching and learning, and how you can take advantage!

Interested in presenting? We will be accepting proposals for concurrent sessions, as well as space in the interactive technology “playground” area, in the coming weeks. Keep an eye on https://atlt.iupui.edu for updates.

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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.

High-impact practcies (HIPs) are educational experiences that improve appreciation for diversity, student persistence, learning outcomes, and student success, particularly for underserved student populations. Kuh identified 11 HIPs, including service learning, diversity/global learning, internships, undergraduate research, and others.  One of our campus priorities is to increase the numbers and to enhance the effectiveness of HIPs courses. This webinar will provide an introduction to different types of HIPs, HIPs taxonomies developed at IUPUI, and resources on how you can design a new HIP course or improve an existing one. 

This webinar is part of the Center for Teaching and Learning’s online mini-workshop series focused on foundational teaching skills, Teaching@IUPUI. Designed for new faculty, adjunct faculty, graduate students, and those looking for a refresher on good teaching practices, the webinars are short, with a brief presentation interspersed with opportunities for interaction and questions. Grounded in current research, the workshops address various teaching topics and provide participants with strategies and resources to make instruction more effective, efficient, and enjoyable. Sessions are scheduled with the time of semester in mind, to keep topics relevant for faculty needs at that time.

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

As a classroom instructor, from time to time you’ll have a student that you’re worried about. Their attendance and behavior may be erratic or there may be a significant change in the quality of their work or participation. You want to help, but you don’t know what’s available to the student or even how to broach the subject in conversation or an email.

In this webinar, Dr. Julie Lash of IUPUI Counselling and Psychological Services will discuss student mental health concerns in the classroom and helpful ways for faculty to both address classroom situations and connect students with support and resources.

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

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.

Hypothes.is is a tool that allows collaborative annotation and discussion of texts within the text itself. Everyone can stay in the context of the pdf document or public webpage without the need to use a separate discussion tool. IU faculty can use Hypothes.is is with their students via an integration with Canvas or with Pressbooks. Join us to learn more about using Hypothes.is in your class.

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

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. Participants are expected to bring copies of or have access to their own learning outcomes during the workshop so they can begin to map their program or course learning outcomes to IUPUI+. Ample time will be given for participants to engage in discussion and ask questions.

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

VoiceThread is a visual discussion that can help support social presence and a collaborative learning community in online, hybrid, and face-to-face courses. With VoiceThread, instructors and/or students can create, share, and comment on documents, slides, images, and videos.

In this hands on-webinar, participants will learn how to create a VoiceThread and setup a VoiceThread assignment in Canvas. Additionally, use of Kaltura content and inline video annotations will be demonstrated.

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

• 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.

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.

• 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 

In this workshop, attendees will learn more about the construct of the civic-minded graduate (CMG) as a framework for assessing and documenting civic learning and civic-minded development among students engaged in a service learning or community engaged learning opportunity. The workshop will also introduce participants to the IUPUI+ Profiles of Learning and discuss the connection between learning outcomes of the CMG with the IUPUI+ Profiles of Learning.

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.

Flaherty, C. (2019, Mar 5). What faculty members think (Undergraduate teaching faculty: The HERI faculty survey 2016-2017), Inside Higher Ed.

A major survey of undergraduate faculty reports on professors experiences of discrimination in their work, inclusive teaching and classroom conflict, student and peer mentoring, pay and politics.