CTL Happenings - Message #470

The Center for Teaching and Learning invites faculty and instructional staff of all ranks and appointment types to Scholars Teaching for Student Success: What Works, What’s Next   featuring Dr. Kimberly Tanner, a nationally recognized biology education researcher at San Francisco State University and the 2018 Curriculum Enhancement Grant (CEG) scholars presenting posters on their results. Event registration and schedule.

After the event, join us for a conversation with Dr. Tanner about her talk, workshop, or other ideas about scholarly teaching. The Meet the Speaker event will be held on October 4, 3:15 - 4:15 p.m. in the Faculty Crossing, University Library, UL 1125M. Register for Meet the Speaker.

Thinking about flipping part of your class but you're not sure where to start? Join us for a 4-session bootcamp and jumpstart your progress! You will learn about flipped course design and practice with a variety of content creation tools and active learning strategies. The Bootcamp is structured as a flipped class so you experience being a student in the style of course you are developing. For more information and registration.

Organized as a series of discussions, the Associate Faculty Teaching Forum offers an opportunity to join your colleagues from many departments to discuss and to explore approaches to commonly encountered teaching issues at IUPUI. 

Jay Gladden, Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education, will give this year’s keynote address, "Importance of Faculty in Student Persistence and Success." The AFTF takes place Wednesday, September 18, 2019 from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Food and coffee included. For registration and more information.

The ATLT Symposium brings the higher education community together to examine and showcase both existing, and emerging instructional technologies, and their pedagogical application across a variety of disciplines.

Our keynote speaker, Open Education Librarian Michelle Reed at the University of Texas Arlington, will share her perspective on OER in higher education.  We will also reprise our popular "technology playground" to provide some hands-on experience. Join us November 8, for the 2019 Advancing Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium.

Looking to add discussion directly around your course content? The Hypothesis Canvas app lets both students and instructors add comments and start conversations in the margins of their texts (including PDF documents and web pages). 

This collaborative annotation engages students more deeply in course readings and gives you a view into how they are reading. Learn more from the video overview – and join the pilot to help discover more ways to use Hypothesis for teaching and learning. 

IU eTexts includes digital learning tools and electronic textbooks from more than 30 publishers, available through the Unizin Engage e-reading platform and accessible in Canvas courses.
Ready to order?

• Go to One.iu.edu and search for Textbook Orders
• Click the “Order tool” button
• Select your class, choose your eText or digital learning tool for each course section, and check out.

To learn more about IU eTexts.

Are you tired of watching your students’ eyes glaze over? Are you interested in knowing more about what your students know (or don’t know)? In this webinar, Top Hat trainers will share everything you need to know in order to implement basic active learning into the classroom. Instructors from all IU campuses are invited to participate in this webinar.

Top Hat is a student response system and comprehensive teaching platform that instructors can use to engage students both within and outside of the classroom with interactive slides, graded questions, customized content, videos, discussions, and polls. Students use smartphones, tablets, laptops, or ordinary cell phones to participate in Top Hat activities.

At Indiana University, an enterprise license agreement allows all students to use Top Hat free of charge.

Join us on select Thursdays in September and October for casual conversations, brainstorming, and a little exercise at Wood Fountain, just south of the IUPUI Library. All you need is your ideas, questions...and maybe a pair of walking shoes.

Each week we'll have CTL consultants eager to chat with you about your ideas for effective teaching and learning with technology. Come for a few laps, or stay the whole time!  Learn more about weekly topics and register.

Have you thought about revising your online or hybrid course design? Are you unsure where to start? Quality Matters is a faculty-driven rubric and peer review process designed to provide supportive, formative feedback to improve course design for online and hybrid courses, but the QM standards can be used to improve face-to-face courses too. Come join us for an introduction to Quality Matters and how it can help you improve student learning in your courses.

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 in one of two ways: as either a single-day 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. workshop (with a one hour break for lunch), or as a two-session workshop held over two days (Monday-Wednesday or Tuesday-Thursday) in which each session is 2 and 1/2 hours in duration. To receive the QM certificate of completion for this workshop, participants must be present for and participate in the entire workshop. Please check the CTL's events listings for specifics about workshop dates and times.

Active learning strategies in the classroom have shown to increase student' motivation, improve critical and higher-order thinking skills, and stay engaged and attentive during the class session. It helps create a three-way interaction among the students, the subject content, and the instructor. In this webinar, we will discuss a broad spectrum of research-based active learning strategies that can be adapted into different learning environments and disciplines.  

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.

Collaborative learning is associated with higher academic achievement and student engagement, in both face-to-face and online learning environments, and has been found to have a positive impact on a wide variety of students.  In this webinar, participants will examine challenges faced by students and faculty in using collaborative techniques, learn about best practices to overcome these challenges, and discuss examples for implementing and assessing collaborative learning techniques for the online and face-to-face learning contexts.

Many of us have gotten the memo that something has to change in our diet to keep us on the wellness track. For example, as an alternative to heavy layers of pancakes covered in syrup, you might have discovered the flexible world of healthy smoothies as a way to jump start your day.

Education is no different! What if you could “slim down” your class prep to remove the old model of ordering high-priced books that students struggle to afford (and carry!) with a simpler “recipe” that boosts student engagement, reduces barriers to student success, AND enhances your pedagogy?

Join IU eTexts Consultant, Noma Maier, for lunch (yes, lunch is included!) and learn about how IU eTexts can be one of those “healthy ingredients” in your course. You’ll discover how your course materials--those essential learning elements--can be “blended” seamlessly into your Canvas course, just like a yummy ingredient in a healthy smoothie. 

Come and learn about the two UITS supported ePortfolio tools at IUPUI - Google Sites and the Course Networking ePortfolio. See what is possible with each tool, including some of the most common options students use along with ideas for including images, embedded PowerPoint, video, and other digital media. Each tool has unique features, come and see which will be the best fit for your teaching.  

ePortfolio Workshop: 

Thurs., Sept. 12, 2019 , 10:30-11:45 a.m., University Library, UL 0110 - Register 

Presenters are Mengyuan Zhao, Carrie Hansel, Sean Winningham, and Amy Powell.

The Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals (PFFP) program engages IUPUI graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in a full range of career options, responsibilities, and mentoring in academic and non-academic carriers. Attend the orientation on September 17 to learn about the benefits of participating in this program and hear from former PFFP scholars about their experiences. Register here.

UITS Learning Technologies and the IUPUI University Library are partnering to host the Scholars Book Fair at IUPUI on Friday, September 13, 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Hine Hall 102 (IP102) and the Idea Garden. This event is meant to be a low-key, fun way for you to explore a range of resources, all related to affordable content, that you might not have considered before. For more information and to register: go.iu.edu/bookfair.

Thomas Holme, Iowa State University, Morrill Professor of Chemistry will be presenting Gauging chemistry learning by measuring more then the final answer.  This event will be Wednesday, September 18, 2019.  Registration and 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. It features four groups of modules that teach one to ask the right questions, find the right data, find meaning in the data, and then use the data to make and communicate decisions. Workshops are offered every other week.

• Frame the Problem |  September 19, 8:30-10:30 a.m. - Register
• Find Existing Data |  September 19, 10:30 am-12:30 p.m. - Register
• Create and Use Survey Data |  October 3, 9-11:00 a.m.  - Register

All science faculty members at Indiana University (all campuses) are invited, on behalf of University Academic Affairs, to the 2019 Indiana University Science Symposium. Registration is free, but limited to the first 120 people. You may register online until noon on September 13, 2019.

This year’s Science Symposium is pleased to welcome guest speaker, Sara Brownell, from Arizona State University. Sara will be presenting on “Assessing Your CURE: A Practical Guide for Instructors of Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences.” See the symposium website for more information and to register.

Get fall semester off to a great start by registering for the IU Online Conference to be held October 30.  Registration deadline is September 27. 

This year's conference will feature panel discussion by chief online officers from large public institutions who will discuss various aspects of online education at their respective universities, as well as their perspectives on the future of online education.

These innovative leaders include: 
• Adam Fein, Vice President for Digital Strategy and Innovation, University of North Texas 
• Robert Griffiths, Associate Vice President, Office of Distance Education and eLearning, The Ohio State University 
• Mary Niemiec, Associate Vice President for Distance Education, Director of University of Nebraska Online, University of Nebraska 

For more information and registration.

Johnson, W. F., Stellmack, M. A., & Barthel, A. L. (2019). Format of instructor feedback on student writing assignments affects feedback quality and student performance. Teaching of Psychology, 46(1), 16-21. 

This study compares electronic and handwritten feedback formats and discusses the favorable outcomes of providing electronic feedback to students on writing assignments.