CTL Happenings - Message #475

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 November 13, 2019. Thank you for joining us.

Join your colleagues for a day of innovation in teaching in learning with technology! The program includes presentations on pedagogy, hands-on sessions where you can practice with a variety of tools and techniques, and a Technology Playground where you can learn more about specific teaching and learning tools.

Our keynote speaker, Michelle Reed, Director of Open Educational Resources at the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries will discuss the pedagogical possibilities enabled by Open Educational Resources, concepts of information ownership and authority, and highlight examples of open education that have empowered educators, improved information access, and increased student agency from projects funded by the UTA Libraries. 

To register, visit the 2019 Advancing Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium website.

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.

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.

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

Do you see yourself as a future faculty member? Do you strive to improve the learning experiences of your students? We invite you to apply for the Emerging Scholars of College Instruction Program (ESCIP) to develop and document your teaching skills. By the end of the program, you will create a teaching portfolio, including sample course materials, teaching observation reports, student feedback, and a teaching philosophy. Learn more and apply for the program by December 1, 2019. .

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 to submit your completed application no later than 11:59 p.m.on December 1, 2019.

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.

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.

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.

Are you curious about how VR may be used for meaningful learning experiences? IU East’s Senior Lecturer Tim Scales will share how he teaches with and about virtual reality (VR) in his business courses. Tim will also discuss students’ perceptions and feedback on their experiences with VR in these courses. Following Tim’s interactive presentation, Chauncey Frend from IU’s Advanced Visualization Lab will demonstrate the use of two VR apps, Google Poly and TiltBrush using an HTC Vive. This teaching capability is also available on the new Oculus Quest. In this webinar, you’ll learn how selected VR tools may be utilized for teaching and learning. 

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.

This workshop will be repeated on Thursday, November 21, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. Register

Universal design is about creating content, materials, and spaces so that everyone can use them. Universal design for learning (UDL) applies universal design principles to maximize the number of students who can access and understand course content. UDL doesn't just apply to students with impairments or learning disabilities. When you design your courses and materials with UDL in mind, all of your students have equal opportunities for success. Join this webinar to learn more about UDL and how you can apply UDL principles to help your students on their path to academic success.

Location: University Library, UL 1125-M

Are you curious about how community engaged teaching and research can enhance your course?  Have you ever wondered where the learning is in “service learning” or how you can make civic engagement educationally meaningful in your discipline?  Do you have an idea for implementing community engagement in your classroom or curriculum and just want to explore what resources the campus has to support you? Join Mary Price and Morgan Studer from the Center for Service and Learning during our drop-in hours at the Crossing to grab a cup of coffee and chat, ask questions, and explore possibilities together.

Audience: All IUPUI faculty, staff, and graduate students    
Hosts:  Center for Service & Learning and the Institute for Engaged Learning

Look here for full fall schedule.

Community partners are essential to the development of meaningful community engaged curricular learning experiences. A well-designed experience includes identifying appropriate community partner(s) and including a community partner voice in the project planning. In this session, we will discuss some of the essential principles of working with community partners, specifically as co-educators in your work.

If you cannot make this workshop and want to discuss this topic, you are welcome to set up a 1:1 conversation by contacting the Center for Service and Learning,  Morgan Studer.

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 

IUPUI- SEIRI (STEM Education, Innovation & Research Institute) will host an NSF Workshop with Karen Keene. Karen, who is an NSF program officer will present, and lead an interactive discussion on ways to improve proposal grant writing abilities in order to achieve the best possible results when applying to NSF DUE/EHR programs. This event will be held November 4, 2019, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. in the IUPUI, University Tower Ballroom.  Register.

Last November, during The Polis Center’s SAVI Talks program, SAVI used recent, local data to improve on food access measures, and found that an estimated 200,000 Indianapolis residents live in low-income neighborhoods with low food access. This fall’s SAVI Talks report will build upon that measure to create a deeper analysis of the food access in Indianapolis.

We will look at food access from different perspectives: time, population, transportation modes like walking and transit, and food systems. This will allow us to see how different places and populations in Indianapolis have been affected by store closures in recent years, , how not having a car might affect a household’s access to fresh produce, and where secondary food outlets (like convenience stores)and emergency resources (like food pantries) increase food access for those in need.

Upcoming SAVI Data Literacy Skills Training: SAVI data literacy training empowers you to find, use, and understand data. Classes are as follows:

• Find Meaning in the Data | November 14, 8:30-11:30 a.m.  - Register
• Make Decisions with Data  |  December 12, 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. - Register

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

Owens, M. T., & Tanner, K. D. (2017). Teaching as brain changing: Exploring connections between neuroscience and innovative teaching. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 16(2), fe2.

For the past few decades, educational neuroscience has uncovered possible neurobiological changes that undergird our students’ learning experiences. This article discusses examples of such changes our students’ brains may undergo when we use active learning strategies such as think-pair-share, creating concepts maps, or refer to culturally diverse and student-relevant examples.