CTL Happenings - Message #487

Keep Teaching Online!

Moving from teaching face-to-face to teaching remotely in a short period of time can be challenging. Here are some resources to help.

Keep Teaching Website

The Center for Teaching and Learning recommends that you begin by going to the keepteaching.iu.edu website. The website includes suggestions of what to think about first, strategies for accomplishing various instructional tasks online, guides for using instructional technology tools, and other resources.

Keep Teaching Webinars 

Keep Teaching webinars designed to help you quickly move online may also be helpful. The webinars include topics such as Zoom for Instructors, Recording and Sharing Video using Kaltura, and Canvas Modules and Assignments. The complete list of webinars can be found here.

Online Options for Exams and Alternate Assessments for Spring 2020 

Moving to online assessment of student learning should involve making thoughtful decisions. This resource provides information about online options for exams and alternate assessments, advantages and disadvantages of online proctored exams, a checklist to help you assess whether to use online proctored exams or alternate assessments, and information about Examity’s online proctoring options.

Keep Learning Website 

Support Your Students as They Keep Learning Online! Your students face multiple challenges as we transition to remote teaching and learning. The keeplearning.iu.edu website provides key tips and resources to help them make the shift to learning online. Please make sure to share this site with your students!

Faculty-to-Faculty Support

Our friends in FACET have provided a list of your faculty colleagues who are experienced in teaching online and willing to lend you a hand. If you or a group of colleagues want to get in touch with one of these volunteers, contact us in the CTL and we can arrange a meeting

Individual Consultations

If you would rather work individually with a consultant, the Center for Teaching and Learning will remain open virtually, but not physically. Submit a consultation request   to schedule a phone or Zoom appointment.

Contact CTL

Please feel free to contact the CTL at (317) 274-1300 or thectl@iupui.edu for any other questions you may have.

Continuing Community Engaged Teaching During COVID-19 

While you, our community, and our campus continue to work through the evolving nature of the impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), we in the Center for Service and Learning (CSL) want to provide  guidance for how to plan for community engaged work and teaching for the rest of this semester. Please see Resources for Supporting Community Engaged Teaching During COVID-19 for more information or reach out to the CSL faculty development team with any questions you may have or to set up a virtual consultation. Contact Mary Price at price6@iupui.edu or Morgan Studer at mohughes@iupui.edu.  

Census 2020 in the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 has created a challenge in what was already a difficult task of gathering student information for the census. Students should complete the census for where they would have been if they hadn’t relocated due to COVID-19, even if their parents have mistakenly reported them on their census response. Students living in university housing do not need to complete the census as they will be reported through group quarters count. Indiana University has created a website, census.iu.edu, to provide answers to students about the census. Faculty can access a PowerPoint slide in Canvas Commons that they can use to inform students.

As we transition to online teaching for the rest of the semester, our students may also be finding themselves in a new learning environment. When you contact your students to provide updates and generally check in during this time, please share this informational resource that will help them get familiar with various online tools that could help them complete course requirements successfully.

Keep Learning is a self-enrolling online course on IU Expand that features information for students about the most commonly used technological tools in online courses, including options for attending lectures, completing assignments, taking tests and quizzes, and collaborating in groups. Encourage students to ask questions about the changes you will make to your course and consider their feedback as you pivot to effective online instruction.

While it's always good to have a well-organized course, it is even more important when you are not meeting with your students each week to remind them where things are and what they are to do in what order. Setting up your Canvas site in a clear and easily usable manner can go a long way toward guiding students to what they are looking for and reducing student frustration and confusion.

In this webinar, we will be looking at some basic web usability principles and how you can easily apply them to your Canvas course site in your navigation, home page, and modules.

Students who have a growth mindset view intelligence as malleable while those with a fixed mindset view intelligence as finite. Students can grow with persistence and effort, but having a growth mindset underlies these behaviors. This, in turn, is dependent on the instructor’s mindset as well. In this webinar, participants will be introduced to the differences between growth and fixed mindset theories of intelligence and discuss activities they can incorporate into their classes to foster growth mindset. They will also reflect upon their current teaching practices that align with growth mindset and identify new activities.

This webinar is part of the Center for Teaching and Learning’s online 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.

Are you a graduate student or a postdoc looking for new teaching strategies or getting ready to apply for faculty positions? The Center for Teaching and Learning is offering a series of webinars for graduate students and postdocs on various topics of teaching and learning and the academic job search. Click here to learn more about the topics and register.

Preparing and Delivering a Teaching Demonstration
Thursday, April 16, Online - Zoom
1:30 – 3 p.m.
Register here

SAVI Indiana Coronavirus Data Hub
Our experts have created an information hub to help practitioners and policy makers during the COVID-19 public health crisis. The Coronavirus Data Hub includes several dashboards, data, and maps about Indiana’s situation. We will continue to add new information, so check back often.

On the Hub you will find:

• Central Indiana Neighborhood-Level Risk Estimates  
• Tracking Indiana COVID-19 Cases
• Indiana County-Level Cases and Risks

Upcoming webinars are as follows: 

• Create and Use Survey Data| April 16, 9:00 - 11:00 a.m. - Register
• Create and Use Focus Group Data | April 30, 9:00 - 11:00 a.m. - Register

Join nationally recognized experts in online teaching and learning for a series of virtual discussions on best practices in online teaching to ensure quality online instruction for student success. Confirmed experts include: Flower Darby, Kevin Gannon, April Mondy, Viji Sathy, Alyson Snowe, Michael Wesch and others.

Webinar topics, dates and times:

• Recording Effective Micro - Lectures, Friday - April 17, 2:00 p.m., ET
• Engaging Students in Readings and Micro-lectures, Monday, April 20, 2:00 p.m., ET

These one-hour, live webinars will include Q&A with participants and will be recorded and hosted by ACUE. Additional open educational resources to support effective online teaching are being offered in conjunction with OpenStax. Implementation resources related to each topic are available from ACUE's Online Teaching Toolkit. Go here for webinar registration and resources.

Curious about teaching online? Looking for tips to make your online classes more engaging? Join us for “Continuing the Conversation”, a webinar series that continues conversations begun during the IU Online Conference. The series features faculty across IU campuses and disciplines who share their experiences as online instructors.

The next in the webinar series, Student - Student Interaction  is Friday, April 17, 2020 from 12 – 1:00 p.m., EST.  The series features Lynn Jettpace, MA.

Click here to learn more and to register for this webinar or others in the series.

The 2020 FALCON Call for Session Facilitators deadline has been extended to April 30, 2020. The 25^th annual conference will feature sessions that address how student success is impacted by our ability as faculty to establish an understanding of campus culture, develop corresponding curriculum and establish a strong sense of community (belonging). On the FALCON page, you can read the call for proposals and submit in one of the three categories. The conference will take place on October 23-24, 2020, at the Crowne Plaza Indianapolis. 

IU School of Medicine Faculty Affairs Professional Development Diversity (FAPDD) is opening its online webinars for the Research in Medical Education faculty learning community on broad topics of education research to all faculty. Contact fapdd@iu.edu for questions about registration or session information. 

Introduction to Qualitative Research 
April 30: 11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. 
Registration 

How to Design a Survey 
May 19: 1:00- 2:00 p.m. 
Registration

The Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology (JoTLT) is issuing a call for a special issue on transitioning to online teaching and learning in a time of urgency. Faculty, students, and staff are currently experiencing the need to pivot teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. We encourage manuscripts from faculty, students with faculty co-authors/sponsors, staff (such as instructional designers, consultants, technologists, and advisors), and administrators. 

Submit abstracts of up to 300 words to facet@iu.edu by May 15, 2020. For more information.

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.

Supiano, B. (2020, April 9). ‘Don’t worry about the class’: How one professor responded to a student with Covid-19 symptoms. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 

As the Covid-19 outbreak continues, more students are likely to be infected or impacted by the virus. This article describes how one professor responded to a student with Covid-19 symptoms with compassion and flexibility, and the response she got when she shared her message and the thinking behind it on Twitter.