CTL Happenings - Message #489

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.

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.

With the sudden move online Jacob Farmer, instructor SPEA-V 369 Managing Information Technology in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUB, needed to break up his traditional lecture sessions into more digestible chunks for his students. He created or found short, engaging videos and wanted to hold students accountable for viewing them. He decided to use the Kaltura quizzing function to embed low stakes assessments into these videos.

Join this webinar to:

• Learn how you can use Kaltura quizzes to enhance your recorded lectures and gain insight into student engagement that may otherwise be difficult.
• Discover how you can create an efficient workflow, showing the whole process from creating a lecture capture through creating modules and assignments in Canvas.
• Hear about missteps and lessons learned from a reluctant online lecturer.

Jointly planned and sponsored by the teaching and learning centers across all Indiana University campuses, the Teaching with Technology Faculty Showcase webinar series is designed to inform and inspire. Each session features IU faculty who are using technology to increase student engagement and improve learning outcomes. During the first 20-30 minutes of these one-hour sessions, the presenter(s) will describe and illustrate how they use specific technologies to achieve instructional goals. The remaining time will be used for more in-depth exploration of the featured technologies. Instructors of all ranks from all IU campuses are welcome to participate in Teaching with Technology Faculty Showcase (TTFS) webinars. 

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.

As instructors prepare for the fall semester, it is important to consider how laboratories can be created for the online environment.  This workshop will explore the basics in creating an online version of your science laboratory course.  This will include information on:

• using existing laboratory kits for hands-on experiments,
• flow of key course components,
• creation of videos and demos, and
• how to find free resources.

A syllabus is often the first impression that students form of a course, and it serves both faculty and student as a guide to and contract for the semester. A well-designed and personalized syllabus can help faculty set the proper tone while simultaneously helping them avoid having to repeatedly answer basic student questions about expectations, policies, and deadlines. This webinar will offer tips and considerations for effective syllabus design and show examples of syllabi from various disciplines in face-to-face and online classes. 

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

This webinar will help instructors review and revise their course and session learning outcome statements to be effective, meaningful, and measurable and use them to guide instruction and learning. Participants will analyze examples of student learning outcome statements, write their own, and begin to complete a course map that articulates the alignment of their course learning outcome statements with learning activities and assessments. 

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

This event aligns with the following IUSM Academy of Teaching Scholars program competencies: Curriculum and Course Design (C).

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.

The next two weeks of  IT Training Getting Started webinars will be of particular interest to our faculty and staff. These are open to everyone and there is no cost to participate. Details and links to register are available here. 

Week of May 11:

• Wednesday, Getting started with the Box Migration: Personal Files
• Thursday, Getting started with Zoom - Hosting edition

Week of May 18:  

• Tuesday, Getting started with creating digital research posters
• Wednesday, Getting started with the Box Migration: Personal Files
• Thursday, Getting started with Google Slides

The workshop topic for each day will be offered at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

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. 

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 SEA Change Institute will be hosting five, short online learning events with the authors of Talking about Leaving Revisited. Each event will focus on specific implications of TALR, and the authors of will provide an overview of their findings and answer questions from participants.

Registration for the TALR events is open to all who are interested – SEA Change Membership is not required to participate in this SEA Change Institute offering. Please follow the links below for to register for each event individually.

Webinar 1: Why we are still Talking about Leaving
Tuesday, June 9, 2020, 11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. EST

Webinar 2: Entering an uneven playing field
Tuesday, July 21, 2020, 11 a.m. -12:00 p.m. EST

Webinar 3: STEM learning experiences and their consequences
Tuesday, August 18, 2020, 11:00 a.m. -12 p.m. EST

Webinar 4: Dysfunctions of the STEM weed-out system
Tuesday, September 22, 2020, 11 a.m. -12:15 p.m. EST

Webinar 5: Dimensions of STEM persistence
Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 11 a.m. -12:15 p.m. EST

Teach, Play, Learn, IU’s annual academic conference on game-based teaching and learning, will now take place online June 26, 10:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Registration is now open and due to the change, there will be no cost to attend.

Teach, Play, Learn conference explores how games and play can be effective tools for learning. This year's topics include: 
• Changing technologies and pedagogies in the quickly evolving area of educational games and playful learning 
• Benefits of using games as part of classroom education 
• Practical solutions for the design and implementation of games in the educational context 

Go here to register to attend this online conference.

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.

Baez, J. C., Marquart, M. S., Garay, K., & Chung, R. Y. E. (2020). Trauma-informed teaching and learning online: Principles & practices during a global health crisis.

Students may be experiencing additional stress, anxiety, or mental health issues as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This one-page overview of trauma-informed teaching provides a list of practical strategies that you can incorporate into your courses to support students during the global health crisis.