CTL Happenings - Message #477

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.

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.

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.

On November 8, 2019, the IU Bloomington campus experienced a power outage that impacted a large portion of campus.  Classrooms, labs, and administrative offices were without power from approximately 10:00 a.m.– 9:00 p.m. A one-day outage is a minor problem, but what happens if a crisis kept you from teaching more than one day?  Visit the Keep Teaching website to start making plans now for how you would keep your classes active during a longer disruption.   

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 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.

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.

Faculty members who are interested in applying for a 2020 Curriculum Enhancement Grant (CEG) should attend this informative and interactive webinar series. You will engage with presenters to discuss the proposal requirements, review examples from past successful proposals, and examine the components of a strong CEG proposal.

The second webinar in this series will focus on the framing of your CEG project within the context of current teaching and learning best practices in the scholarship of teaching and learning literature. You will discuss the considerations for a high-quality literature review and connect it to designing meaningful research questions for your teaching interventions. You will briefly learn about alignment of assessment and evaluation plans with project goals.

Faculty members who are interested in applying for a 2020 Curriculum Enhancement Grant (CEG) should attend this informative and interactive webinar series. You will engage with presenters to discuss the proposal requirements, review examples from past successful proposals, and examine the components of a strong CEG proposal.

The third webinar in this series will focus on developing an assessment and evaluation plan for your CEG project. In addition, you will learn about the expectations for the CEG budget, timeline, and dissemination plan.  CEG proposals must be submitted by January 24, 2020.

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 is offered at IUPUI as a one-day in-person workshop from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.with a one hour break for lunch. To receive the QM certificate of completion for this workshop, participants must be present for and participate in the entire workshop. 

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.

Our fall 2019 Community Trends report: Food Access Across Groups, Neighborhoods, and Time is now available.  Last fall, our research found an estimated 200,000 Indianapolis residents live in low-income neighborhoods with low food access. This new report looks 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:

• Frame the Problem  |  December 3, 8:30 -10:30 a.m. – Register
• Find Existing Data  |  December 3, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. – Register
• Make Decisions with Data  |  December 12, 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. - Register

Signorini, A. (2018, November 15). Students helping students provide valuable feedback on course evaluations.Tomorrow’s Professor, 1700. 

This post describes a research-supported strategy at the University of California Merced to engage students in the course evaluation process and receive constructive and actionable feedback to improve teaching methods and learning experiences. The post also refers to the learning outcome rubric and student videos that can be used in class.