CTL Happenings - Message #494

Feeling anxious about preparing your fall course in a new format? The Just-In-Time Course Design: A Faculty Learning Experience is for you! This 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.

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, Personal Capture, Analytics)
• Canvas (general questions, templates, and analytics)
• Zoom (general overview)
• Syllabus

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.

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

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. 

VoiceThread is a visual discussion that can be used to support social presence and a collaborative learning community in online, hybrid, and in-person courses. With VoiceThread, instructors and/or students can create, share, and comment on documents, slides, images, and videos. In this webinar, participants will learn how to create and comments on VoiceThreads, see how everything works in Canvas, and we will discuss a variety of examples from actual courses along the way. There will be an open Q&A throughout the training.

This event aligns with the following IUSM Academy of Teaching Scholars program competencies: Instructional Technology (IT).

Looking for a way to build your Canvas course without starting from scratch? The IU Course Template for Canvas will soon be available to use in all Fall 2020 courses. 

This optional template includes suggestions for how to use Modules, Syllabus, and other frequently-used Canvas tools to build your course in Canvas. During this workshop, plan to learn more about what the template offers you, how to apply the template to your course, and receive answers to your questions about how to individualize the template to your personal teaching style.

Click on any of the dates below for more information or to register for repeated webinars:

July 30, 3:00 - 3:45 p.m.

July 31, 10:00 - 10:45 a.m.

August 5, 10:00 - 10:45 a.m. 

August 6, 2:00 - 2:45 p.m. 

This webinar will introduce the newly created “ePortfolio at IUPUI” Canvas Expand site full of ready-to-use ePortfolio activities, guides, and assignment templates. Designed to be user-friendly, flexible, and available to all IUPUI instructors, each resource can be used as-is or modified to support the learning goals of your program, course, and curriculum.

The IUPUI CyberLab team will give you an in-depth look into the CourseNetworking (CN) ePortfolio platform. Whether you are teaching with ePortfolio in a single course or are incorporating ePortfolio into your degree program or co-curricular program, you will find helpful information and resources through this session to implement ePortfolio, and there will be plenty of time to ask questions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

IUPUI is committed to providing all students with at least one meaningful international experience.  One way to accomplish this is through curriculum internationalization This session will explore different ways in which faculty can build a global engagement experience into a hybrid or distance learning course.

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.

Join a panel discussion exploring ways of structuring capstone experiences in virtual and hybrid formats.  Four faculty members (Tyrone Freeman, David Pierce, Beth Goering, and Zeb Wood) from four different Schools at IUPUI will share what they learned last semester transitioning their capstone experiences to virtual/online formats.  They will share what worked, and what didn’t, for themselves as instructors and for their students – and offer advice for faculty considering implementing a virtual or hybrid capstone experience for students this fall.

Join a panel of faculty, staff and administrators as we overview policy considerations for experiential and community-based learning experiences this fall. Beyond the policies, we will explore situations and ways to respond that that align with university policy as well as how to integrate risk and safety considerations into the classroom as teachable moments.

Creating accessible course materials is critical to support all students, particularly those with visual or audio impairments. In this webinar, participants will be introduced to tools, resources, and best practices for developing accessible course materials.

Join this webinar to learn how to use CourseNetworking (CN Post) to add social discussion to your online class. The CN Post provides a very easy to use, Facebook like, student-driven discussion space for you and your students. Using the tool, students can freely talk to each other, share learning resources, and answer each other’s questions. CN Post can be a replacement or complement to the Canvas Discussions tool.

This webinar will show you how to set up CN Post in your Canvas course, facilitate student discussion, and easily track participation from both desktop and mobile devices. 

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 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:   

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.

SEIRI is offering a workshop on development of Logic Models for educational projects. The workshop is especially for faculty interested in applying for federal funding from NSF under the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) track, for a SEIRI Seed Grant, or for a CEG offered by CTL. 

The Design, Construction, and Evaluation of Effective Logic Models in Project Development

Thursday, 8/6/2020, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. -  Register   

Please email Annwesa Dasgupta, adasgup@iu.edu, with any questions.  

Additional reading prior to the workshop found here.

Bruff, D. (2020, June 11). Active learning in hybrid and Physically Distanced Classrooms. Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching.

This article provides a few examples of possible strategies we could use to create a community and engage our students in the hybrid and physically distanced classroom.