CTL Happenings - Message #496

You and your students may have navigated many unprecedented teaching and learning challenges this year due to the pandemic. We invite you to submit a proposal for a short (10-minute) virtual presentation focused on what you learned about your own teaching practices and your impact on students’ learning during the pandemic. The goal of these presentations is to bring forth promising practices and enable our campus community to develop a common understanding of challenges and solutions in the changed teaching and learning circumstances. Proposals are due on August 31, 2020.  View the call for proposals for more information.

The October 9th Scholarly Teaching Symposium is an annual half-day event that fosters a culture of scholarly teaching and supports the scholarship of teaching and learning. It provides faculty with a venue to share their promising teaching practices and disseminate results of scholarly teaching interventions, such as the work of the Curriculum Enhancement Grant awardees.

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.

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.

This year's AFTF sessions focus on discussions about teaching in the “pandemic classroom,” and teaching inclusively, at Indiana University. Some sessions specifically discuss teaching and learning in our 6 main course formats in which teaching and learning happens either in-person, through video conferencing, asynchronously online, or in some combination of these modes. Join us to share your teaching successes and challenges during the pandemic! The AFTF happens on Zoom on Thursday, September 24, 2020 from, 5:15 to 8:00 p.m. Registration will open soon!

Organized as a series of conversations (forums), the Associate Faculty Teaching Forum offers an opportunity to join your colleagues from many departments to explore commonly encountered teaching issues and strategies at IUPUI, IUPU Columbus, and IU Fort Wayne.

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.

Respondus Monitor is an automated proctoring service for Respondus LockDown Browser that uses students' webcams to record students during online, non-proctored quizzes, and automatically detect behaviors that could indicate cheating. As an instructor, when you enable this feature for a quiz, your students will be required to use a webcam and microphone with LockDown Browser.

This comprehensive training webinar is intended for instructors who plan to use LockDown Browser and/or Respondus Monitor with online exams. This session provides a detailed demonstration of both applications, including enhancements that make Respondus Monitor even more effective and easy to use. To register for this webinar: https://go.iu.edu/37P0.

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.

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.

Join colleagues for Digital Coffee Hours on the Fourth Monday Series sponsored by LEAP Indiana and hosted by colleagues from around the state who will share a brief presentation on a particular topic and then facilitate a discussion about that topic. The September 28 topic will be Impacting Inclusivity.

Join CIRTL at IUPUI to Build Your Resume and More.. 

Presenters from across the country share their expertise on teaching and learning topics to prepare graduate students and postdocs for future faculty careers. Sign up for a free CIRTL network account to participate in CIRTL cross-network Fall 2020 workshops, courses, and events. CIRTL events and programs provide you the opportunity to network and build connections with graduate students, postdocs, and faculty across the CIRTL network, which currently has over 41 member institutions from the US and Canada, including IUPUI.

IUPUI’s CIRTLCast series on High-Impact Practices: Register now!

As a CIRTL member, IUPUI is offering a four-part webinar series on engaging students through high-impact practices. This CIRTLCast series will showcase several ways in which future faculty in all disciplines, levels and roles can embed and assess high-impact educational practices into curricular experiences. Participants will explore the features and benefits of a high-impact practice curricular experience, including global learning and engagement, undergraduate research, and ePortfolios. Learn more and register.

(1) On September 11 at 2 p.m., Scott Barry Kaufman, author of Wired to Create, joins us to kick off a series of virtual events addressing our retreat theme Creativity and Experience: Enriching Teaching and Learning. Attendance to this free webinar will not be limited to the FACET membership. However, registration is required. Register   

(2) The 2020 FALCON  will be hosted online on October 24. 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). Further information on registration and schedule will be announced soon. 

(3) The Mack Center Fellowship Application deadline for completed proposals is November 30. This year, we are particularly interested in proposals focused on teaching in virtual environments, including the full range of synchronous, asynchronous, and hybrid virtual/ face-to-face formats. Projects investigating traditional classes will also be considered. More information or become a fellow.  

(4) The deadline for FACET/Mack Center SoTL Travel Grants for travel to present SoTL research in the Spring 2021 is December 1. Grants are for allowable costs as delineated by IU Travel Management up to $750, faculty are encouraged to combine this funding with other sources. Due to COVID-19, funds can be used towards virtual event registration. More information and application.

Data & Drafts: Impacts of COVID-19 on population needs and housing equity

Which areas of Central Indiana have experienced an increase in calls for help? Which populations have experienced a higher increase in needs? What needs have increased the most? Which neighborhoods are most susceptible to housing instability as a result of COVID-19? On August 20, during our virtual presentation from 6-7:30 p.m., we will look at predicted eviction levels due to rising unemployment, as well as the amount of funding it would take to support renters who have lost their jobs. In March, SAVI created the Coronavirus Data Hub to help practitioners and policy makers during the COVID-19 public health crisis and to provide Central Indiana residents with data about the spread and effect of the virus. The Coronavirus Data Hub includes several dashboards, data, and maps about Indiana’s situation and its information is updated regularly. This event is made possible by the partnership of The Indianapolis Public Library, WFYI Public Media, and SAVI, with support from the Civic Switchboard and Sun King Brewing. Our friends at Sun King Brewing will be providing drawing prizes for early registrants and engaged participants, 21 years and older, during the event.

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Upcoming SAVI Data Literacy Skills Training:  SAVI data literacy training empowers you to find, use, and understand data. Classes are as follows:

• Avoid Data Pitfalls  | Aug. 27, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. - Register
• Frame the Problem | Sept. 10, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. - Register
• Find Existing Data | Sept. 10, 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. - Register

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 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

Toor, R. (2020, June 23). Turns out you can build community in a Zoom classroom. Chronicle of Higher Education  [chronicle.com]. Retrieved August 13, 2020.

Fears about a spreading pandemic has pushed many instructors from their in-person classes to the online setting. The move online brings with it a legitimate concern that students will not feel as connected to instructor, to other students, and to content. Rachel Toor describes some approaches that may work for the Zoom online setting.