CTL Happenings - Message #474

Beginning October 2019, the CTL’s Happenings newsletter will be a bi-weekly publication. The newsletter will continue bring you important announcements, a list of upcoming events and workshops, Tech Tips you can use with your courses, and Recommended Readings. Look for the next edition on October 30, 2019. Thank you for joining us.

The 2020 Curriculum Enhancement Grant (CEG) Request for Proposals is now open. The CEG provides faculty with technical and instructional support, time and funds to implement projects designed to improve student learning and success at IUPUI, IUPUC, and IU Fort Wayne. The deadline for submitting proposals is January 24, 2020.

Teaching for Student Success: An Evidence-Based Approach is a new module series developed in response to President McRobbie’s call for supporting excellence in teaching and learning at IU. 

Created expressly for IU faculty, by members of the IU faculty, this professional development series provides a framework for education grounded in empirical research, combined with opportunities to document evidence-based practices
Module topics include:

1. Course Design
2. Assessment
3. Science of learning
4. Active and interactive learning
5. High-impact practices
6. Creating positive first impressions 

To learn more about the module series click here.

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 from 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.

The IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning seeks proposals from faculty teaching at higher education institutions across Indiana for the 2020 E.C. Moore Symposium on Excellence in Teaching. We would especially welcome proposals that address topics such as: efforts to improve student learning and engagement, inclusive excellence, integrative learning, novel general education courses or curricula, creative use of instructional technology, and initiatives that promote excellence in teaching. Proposals should clearly demonstrate relevance to a broad range of disciplines. The 2020 E.C. Moore Symposium will be held on Friday, March 6^th.

Proposals will be accepted through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, November 17, 2019. Click here for more information and to submit a proposal.

Get $500 to redesign an assignment! The Information Literacy Gateway Community of Practice is sponsoring microgrants for instructors to develop or redesign an assignment to incorporate Information Literacy.  Visit the website for more information or submit your completed application no later than 11:59 p.m.on December 1, 2019.

October is cybersecurity awareness month, and universities are particularly vulnerable. To help protect the IU community, IT Training offers fee-free, engaging programs like a cybersecurity-themed escape room and the Think Before You Click Campaign (including an IT security basics mini-course).

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.

The Faculty Crossing is open! Part workroom, part café, the Faculty Crossing is a technology-rich collaboration space for faculty and teaching staff of all appointments. Learn more about the space, read FAQ's, and see the Events Calendar at the Faculty Crossing website.  Stop by and experience the crossing in University Library, UL 1125M.

With an increasing number of active learning classrooms on all IU campuses, more instructors are wondering how to best leverage the technology and design features these room have to offer, IU's Learning Spaces team will host this webinar from an active learning classroom to share common features  found in many of these rooms and to discuss ways to instructionally implement them in your class.  We will share some digital resources during the session and will provide plenty of time for conversation and questions.

As IUPUI continues the process of reviewing general education courses, course coordinators or faculty responsible for preparing course dossiers for review may have questions about the information and materials that need to go into the dossiers. This workshop will provide an overview of the course review process, course dossier requirements, and the rubric that will be used to review the course dossiers. It will also introduce a new option for preparing a simplified course dossier based on using a Mile Marker assignment. Examples from existing course dossiers will be incorporated into the workshop. Questions and discussion will be encouraged.

You don’t have to wait until the end of the semester to find out how students feel the course is going. Collecting feedback via anonymous Qualtrics surveys provides you with insights that can be  leveraged to better meet the needs of your students. Join us for a 30-minute webinar to learn how to create and embed a Qualtrics survey to elicit actionable feedback from your students. 

At Indiana Unveristy, Qualtrics is free to use for all IU faculty, staff, and students. Instructors from all campuses are invited to attend this webinar.

Ensuring your students have sufficient prerequisite knowledge and skills is essential for maximizing their learning in your course. In this webinar, participants will learn strategies to guide students’ pre-class learning, to make explicit the relevance of pre-class work, and to assess students’ preparation and prior knowledge.

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.

The Profiles of Learning for Undergraduate Success, 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 the profiles.

In this hands-on workshop, facilitators will provide a brief overview of the profiles, 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 the profiles. Ample time will be given for participants to engage in discussion and ask questions.

Good assessment practices include checking students’ learning on a regular basis during the learning experience. They provide faculty with feedback on what, how much, and how well their students are learning. Instructors can use this feedback to modify their teaching to improve student learning. It helps students reflect on their learning and identify gaps in their knowledge. In this webinar, participants will learn the difference between formative and summative assessment as well as how to implement formative assessment techniques in different teaching contexts and disciplines. Questions and discussion will be encouraged.

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 Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research is pleased to host the IUPUI Research On-Boarding Orientation (ROBO) program. Participants will:  

• Gain a better understanding of the IUPUI campus level research organizational structure. 
• Learn about many programs and services that are available to help faculty succeed in their research and creative activities. 
  Receive insights from current faculty about how they were able to achieve early success.
• Connect with resources that are available through centers, institutes, and other research support units on campus.
• Meet new research colleagues and explore potential collaborations. 

ROBO begins with a welcome from Interim Vice Chancellor for Research Janice S. Blum. Participants will have lunch at their roundtable, while staff from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of Research Administration, and Office of Research Compliance rotate tables presenting brief overviews of various topics. Register

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.

• Create and Use Focus Group Data | Oct. 17, 9 -11:00 a.m. - Register
• Module 2A: Finding Existing Data | Oct. 24, 10:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. - Register
• Module 2E: Avoiding Data Pitfalls | Oct. 31, 9 -11:30 a.m. - Register

The Center for Service Learning once again features their Basic Workshop Series.  Their first session is Service Learning and Integrated Course Design  on Friday, October 18, 2019 from 11:30-1:00 p.m.in Hine Hall 234-D.

Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch while we work together. If this topic interests you but you cannot make it to the session, please reach out to Morgan Studer, she can set up a 1:1 consultation. Register

This seminar, for faculty and staff is presented by Adaptive Educational Services, the LGBTQ+ Center, and the Multicultural Center provides an orientation/overview of the programs and services each one offers. The seminar, held October 22, 2019, noon to 4:00 p.m., is designed to inform, empower, and provide applicable curricular and co-curricular strategies, resources and tools for attendees to utilize, while working with our diverse student population.

There will also be some practical ideas shared about how to incorporate a diversity perspective into classroom instruction, and staff interactions with students. Lunch will be provided.  Register now! For questions or additional information, contact AJ Young (ajyoun@iupui.edu)

Join a panel of academic and community partners as we examine the challenges of creating and sustaining an ethical and equitable relationship between
community-based experiential learning programs abroad and their international host partners and communities. When programs are conducted in under-resourced
communities abroad, how do we move from privileging communities as laboratories for student learning and charity towards an ethos of intentional mutuality? How does a focus on mutuality enhance the outcomes for all partners, including both students and the communities we intend to benefit? Register

Presenter: Andy C. Buchenot, Session Title: Reframing Writing Instruction in Physical Learning Environments: Making Connections Between Digital and Nondigital Technologies

Presenter: Tanya Perkins, Presentation Title: Strange(r) Places: Collaborative Creativity in Real and Virtual Spaces

Want to read ahead? Both Tanya and Andy have published their research in a special edition of the Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology:  http://go.iu.edu/2bJ0

Register 

Geraldine Richmond, Ph.D., Univ. Oregon, The Art of Effective Negotiation | Nov. 22, 10 a.m. -12:00 p.m. - Register 

Borrero, L. & Miller, A. J. (2019, September 25). Supporting underprepared students in the online classroom. Faculty Focus. 

Engaging underprepared can be challenging, particularly in an online context when instructor-student interactions are not built into the course structure. In this article, the authors describe behaviors that underprepared students may exhibit in online courses as well as how instructors can support these students.