CTL Happenings - Message #478

Apply to the Early Career Teaching Academy if you are an early career full-time faculty member at IUPUI, IUPU Columbus, or IU Fort Wayne! The Academy will help you to lay a foundation for an effective teaching career, one that is anchored in a teaching philosophy and evidence-based teaching practices.

For more information or to apply for the academy

Please join us for our inaugural Celebration of Teaching and Engaged Learning.  This event will recognize faculty and staff who have participated in sustained professional development during the 2018-2019 academic year that resulted in a change to a course or experience that increased student engagement, learning, and success. Their efforts have had an important and meaningful impact in elevating the importance of effective teaching and student engagement at IUPUI. Chancellor Paydar and Executive Vice Chancellor Johnson will offer welcoming remarks at 3 p.m. followed by distribution of recognition pins to honorees and a light reception with drinks and appetizers.

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.

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.   

This workshop is designed to help faculty build a teaching philosophy "from the ground up," using the Nancy Chism model. Participants will use a worksheet and resources to write their own teaching philosophy, a document that answers the questions, "What teaching and assessment strategies do I use? and Why?" and "How are these teaching strategies and assessments expected to help my students learn?" Participants will also connect their teaching philosophy to a teaching statement, a document which answers the subsequent questions, "What student learning and successes have resulted from my teaching approaches and instructional choices?"

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. 

In this webinar, offered by the Centers for Teaching & Learning, we will explore and discuss the structure of Canvas, IU’s learning management system. The presentation will give instructors an understanding of the interactivity of Canvas tools and how that influences the way courses are set up.  You will learn how to

• share your syllabus
• create and grade assignments 
• communicate with your students
• get to know your students
• effectively use Canvas for teaching

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 | January 9, 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. - Register
• Find Existing Data  |  January 9, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. – Register

Gannon, K. (2019). How to create a syllabus: Advice guide. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 

Creating a new syllabus or want to reexamine an old one? This comprehensive guide will show you how to design a syllabus so that it’s not only an effective map of your course’s nuts and bolts logistics but also an invitation to actively engage in the learning process.