CTL Happenings - Message #488

Will you be a new graduate teaching assistant (TA) in fall 2020 and/or spring 2021? Register for the 2020 TA Orientation, to learn about the expectations and responsibilities of your new position, and develop strategies to confidently and effectively interact with faculty and undergraduate students in face-to-face and online classes. Click here for more information and registration details.

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.

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.

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.

IU School of Medicine is offering a week-long Jumpstart to Teaching series for PhD students and postdoctoral scholars in the sciences from May 18-22, 2020.  Jumpstart to Teaching is designed to provide graduate students and postdocs in the sciences with foundational knowledge and skills related to teaching and teaching-intensive faculty roles in the future. Click here to learn more about the sessions and registration details. For questions, contact program Chair Lauren Easterling at easterli@iu.edu.

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 Focus Group Data | April 30, 9:00 - 11:00 a.m. - Register

Stay informed with discussions on various current topics relevant to faculty, staff, and students! These discussions will be led by staff from the IUPUI Multicultural Center and other campus units. Drop in for the discussion on April 30 from 12 :00 – 1:00 p.m., facilitated on Coping and Hoping with Strategies for COVID-19 and Beyond. This discussion will be facilitated by Dennis Rudnick, Associate Director of the Multicultural Center and Yves Ambroise, Assistant Director of CAPS. 

Link to join the virtual discussion.

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.

The deadline for FACET/Mack Center SoTL Travel Grants for travel to present SoTL research in the Fall 2020 is July 1, 2020. Grants are for allowable costs as delineated by IU Travel Management up to $750, faculty are encouraged to combine this funding with other sources. Look here 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.

Bonner, A. (2020, April 20). Mindfulness in the (online) classroom. Faculty Focus

Online summer courses are starting in a few weeks! Some of us may be teaching a summer course online for the first time. This article shares some practical mindfulness techniques that can help you and your students deal successfully with stress and practice self-care and awareness.