CTL Happenings - Message #493

The Just-In-Time Course Design: A Faculty Learning Experience is a badged professional development opportunity for faculty interested in learning more about teaching online, in-person with physical distancing, or a mix of online and in-person as they prepare for Fall 2020. Participants will select from a variety of learning experiences which will be completed independently and include activities such as live and recorded webinars, online resources, readings, and application assignments in a Canvas site. Application assignments will require creating materials for their own courses and completing a reflection on their work. 

IUPUI, IUPUC, and IU Fort Wayne instructors are eligible for the badge and $500 in professional development funds. Participants may work through the learning experience at their own pace, but they must submit all materials by August 31 to earn the badge and the associated funds.

For more information and to register. 

This facilitated Faculty Learning Community (FLC) is designed to provide faculty with the opportunity to learn about strategies for increasing student engagement and active learning within online and hybrid environments. 

The book, Small Teaching Online, by Flower Darby, will be used to guide the work of the faculty learning community. Faculty participants may be eligible for a $500 stipend.Because of high demand, additional FLCs were added.

These FLCs still have space available:

FLC #8: Mondays – July 27, Aug 3, Aug 10, & Aug 17, 2:30 – 4 pm  Register

FLC #9: Wednesdays- July 22, July 29, Aug 5, & Aug 12, 10 – 11:30 am Register 

FLC #10: Wednesdays – July 22, July 29, Aug 5, and Aug 12, 1:30 – 3 pm  Register

The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging educators to think about teaching and learning in new and different ways. This also applies to the structure and delivery of high-impact practices (HIPs) and all forms of engaged learning, including internships, undergraduate research, global learning, and community engaged teaching and learning. 

This professional development series offered by the Institute for Engaged Learning is designed to help faculty, staff, and program directors structure various forms of engaged learning for our students during the upcoming 2020-2021 academic year. Where appropriate, session facilitators will highlight ways in which faculty and staff can structure experiences within one of the 4 course formats specified by the Office of Academic Affairs for the fall semester. Tips and advice will also be offered for structuring co-curricular experiences on campus and within the community, while following guidelines specified in the IU Return to Campus Guide and the IU Research Restart Guidelines.

IUPUI faculty are eligible to receive a completion badge and $500 stipend if they complete the program requirements. For more series information and registration.

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.

Do you have questions about moving your course online?  Then join us for a virtual mini-consultation session with teaching and learning consultants to get your questions answered.

We will be using Zoom breakout rooms to allow simultaneous conversations between you, your fellow instructors, and a teaching and learning consultant.  You will be assigned to a consultant based on your specific questions. Please expect to wait in the room’s waiting room as the host matches participants to consultants.

Main breakout room topics will be:

• Kaltura (video management, sharing, and creation)
• Canvas (general questions and rubrics)
• Zoom (general overview)

Drop in anytime during this 90 minute session.  If you are not sure what you need help with, our Zoom host will happily direct you to the consultant who can best address your needs.  These are considered “mini-consultations” in order to help answer quick questions you may have about a topic.  If you would like a longer consultation about your course, you can contact the IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning at thectl@iupui.edu or 317-274-1300 and request an appointment with one of the CTL consultants.

Additional Drop-in Consultation dates:

July 16, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
July 23, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

To join the online session, go to https://iu.zoom.us/j/338253938.

In this webinar, participants will learn about some of the decision points for teaching a STEM lab online. Whether you are designing a new online lab or moving an existing face-to-face lab to the online environment, this webinar will help you understand the major decisions you will have to make about your course. We will also discuss two common concerns: group work and assessment. 

This webinar is repeated on the following date:  Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 3:00 p.m.   Register  

In this first session of the Institute for Engaged Learning Professional Development Series, we will examine the central features of high-impact practices and identify and explore strategies and opportunities for embedding an engaged learning experience into an online course, a hybrid-traditional format, a hybrid-distance format, and/or a Distance-Other format.  Participants will asked to share the learning goals/outcomes for the course, their prior experience(s) embedding engaged learning into a curricular or co-curricular experience, and anticipated challenges they might experience in the fall semester.  Collectively, we will explore strategies for embedding different experiences into these various course formats, and participants will be invited to attend additional sessions where specific high-impact practices will be explored in greater detail (e.g. internships, ePortfolio, global learning/engagement, civic learning, capstones, and service learning).

This session is part of the Tips and Strategies to Promote Student Learning and Engagement During COVID-19 Professional Development Series sponsored by the Institute for Engaged Learning, IUPUI.

This webinar is repeated on July 20, 9:00 -10:30 a.m.  Register

This session introduces faculty and graduate students to the practice of documenting one’s teaching. Participants will examine different kinds of evidence and documents to capture, and to make the case for, teaching achievements.  Participants will consider how to shape their evolution as teachers through the use of many kinds of documents that include—but do not rely on—student evaluations of teaching. This webinar is the 3rd webinar in a 3-webinar series designed to introduce faculty and graduate students to the process of creating, refining and documenting one’s teaching practices.

The Academic Calendar for 2020-21 introduces two 3-week online intensive scheduling blocks at IUPUI. While not every course will be suitable for delivery in this new format, with careful consideration, planning, and implementation, departments or programs may wish to offer select courses in this manner. This workshop identifies the benefits and challenges of offering intensive online courses; discusses the criteria for selecting courses to consider offering in this format; and outlines faculty, student, logistical, and instructional considerations in developing and delivering these types of courses. Resources and examples will be provided, along with an opportunity to participate in a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning project focusing on 3-week intensive online courses.

Critical Reflection is a key tenet of all High Impact Practices that, when designed well, allows students to make meaning of their experiences in light of particular frames of reference (e.g., a course concept, disciplinary knowledge, skill, or value).  This process not only helps students deepen their knowledge but also provides an opportunity to document their learning.  In our time together, we will discuss key design principles and a helpful reflective framework, offer tips on designing reflection for distance-learning, and provide you with a helpful way to utilize reflection products as a means of learning assessment.

This session is part of the Tips and Strategies to Promote Student Learning and Engagement During COVID-19 Professional Development Series sponsored by the Institute for Engaged Learning, IUPUI.

Ensuring your students have sufficient prerequisite knowledge and skills is essential for maximizing their learning in your course. In this webinar, participants will learn strategies to guide students’ pre-class learning, to make explicit the relevance of pre-class work, and to assess students’ preparation and prior knowledge. 

Join us for an interactive presentation exploring how to make internships a greater learning experience for students. Move beyond work reports and counting hours as the main means of assessment. Hear about best practices and learn about resources for developing timely reflective prompts, surveys, and other tools to assess the impact of your internship courses on students and intern site supervisors. There will be ample time for questions and discussion. We want you to share your best practices too!

This session is part of the Tips and Strategies to Promote Student Learning and Engagement During COVID-19 Professional Development Series sponsored by the Institute for Engaged Learning, IUPUI.

Explore ready-to-go and customizable assignments and activities designed for online, hybrid, and face-to-face delivery, for incorporating ePortfolio into a course or whole degree program.  Do you want your students to create an ePortfolio but you’re not sure how to get started?  Concerned about how your students will get help?  Do you have a course assignment you want students to add to their ePortfolio?  Resources for each of these situations and more will be shared and available for you to import into your own Canvas site to use in your teaching.

Will you or your students be in a classroom at any point during this fall semester? Do you have questions about how you will teach, how your students will engage, or how your class meetings might be different? The purpose of this webinar is to give you an opportunity to begin addressing questions and framing your approach to student engagement and general logistics for classroom meetings this fall based on the new classroom protocols and potential disruptions to in-person class meetings throughout the semester.  Webinar facilitators will share some scenarios of student engagement strategies for various classroom contexts.

If you have specific questions about this topic that you’d like the webinar facilitators to address, please respond to the prompt soliciting questions at the time of webinar registration.

So, you know what you want your students to learn, and you’ve developed assignments to get them there. But, do you know what makes certain assignments work well and others not so much? We begin with these questions to reveal the ways of thinking that your discipline values and that the kinds of learning you expect of your students. This webinar will ask you to examine how students learn in your course, the underlying processes required for that learning, and the corresponding learning activities (assignments) and assessments used to facilitate and reveal that learning. You will also be able to situate your teaching within well-understood conceptions of how learning works. Be prepared to discuss a learning activity, assignment, or assessment from your course. 

Diversity and inclusion play an important role in promoting student learning. Today’s college students are increasingly diverse compared to prior generations.  Traditional teaching strategies have also been shown to lead to lower academic achievement for under-served students compared to majority students even when differences in GPA and other factors are controlled for. By considering the diversity of the classroom and implementing equitable teaching strategies, instructors can increase student learning and sense of belonging for all students, not just those who are underserved. In this webinar, participants will learn how to leverage student diversity and incorporate inclusive teaching strategies in their classrooms. Questions and discussion will be encouraged.

Join us for an interactive session where we will walk you through core principles, tips and strategies to initiate new or adapt service-learning projects and partnerships for online and mixed course formats. This session will include practical examples, project ideas, and sample assignments.

Looking for a flexible way to integrate civic engagement into your course this fall? If so, you may want to consider civic learning. Civic learning is a form of integrative learning that supports students in their development for lives of informed and active participation in society as citizens and professionals.  Civic learning is an untapped dimension of much of the teaching we already do in universities. Civic learning potential lies dormant inside many of our most common learning goals such as critical thinking, information literacy, communication, cultural humility, collaboration and quantitative reasoning skills. In this session, join us to learn about relevant frameworks, practical strategies and concrete examples to make civic learning visible in disciplinary and general education courses regardless of course type.

This session is part of the Tips and Strategies to Promote Student Learning and Engagement During COVID-19 Professional Development Series sponsored by the Institute for Engaged Learning, IUPUI.

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 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

LEAP Indiana is offering informal Faculty Forums this summer and fall.  The Zoom sessions will enable faculty to connect with others in related disciplines and across the state to discuss ideas and get support surrounding space and instructional responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic.  In these sessions, faculty will have like-minded colleagues with whom they can share how they are dealing with the changes and what they have found to be successful.  Each session will have a facilitator and pre-registration will be encouraged.  Register Here  

The following topical areas will be highlighted:   

Studios
Facilitator: Sarah Ackermann, BSU
Tuesday, July 14,   2:00 p.m.

Labs
Facilitator: Gina Londino-Smolar, IUPUI
Thursday, July 16, 10:30 a.m.

First-Year Experience and Co-Curricular Learning
Facilitator: Lisa Angermeier, IUPUI
Tuesday, July 21,  10:00 a.m.

Languages
Facilitator: Julia Baumgardt, Marian University
Thursday, July 23,   2:30 p.m.

Performance Arts
Facilitator: Christie Zimmerman, BSU
Friday, July 24,   11:00 a.m.

Forbes, Lisa. (2020, June 17). Fostering fun: Engaging students with asynchronous online learning. Faculty Focus.

Engaging students in online and hybrid courses can pose additional challenges due to lack regular face-to-face interactions. This article provides six creative strategies to get students motivated, feel welcome, and be ready to participate in your course activities.