CTL Happenings - Message #512

Addressing student concerns and navigating conversations in a divisive political, economic, and social climate has been challenging and exhausting. In this April 20th webinar, panelists will share their expertise, strategies, and models that they use to facilitate conversations on contentious topics in a variety of contexts. Participants also will be invited to share their strategies, insights, concerns. Click for more information and to register.

Check out the CTL's latest teaching resource - a collection of short video clips that cover some of the most popular topics from our workshops and webinars! If you’re short on time and looking for answers to specific questions about a teaching strategy or technology, start with these video guides. Explore the videos.

Teach, Play, Learn Conference, June 25, 2021 
Teach, Play, Learn (TPL) is IU's annual conference on game-based teaching and learning. This year's presentations will focus on real-life usage, empirical studies, and theoretical discussions. We're particularly interested in interactive workshops involving best practices for teaching with games or playful elements in the classroom. For discussion topics and other details, visit the TPL website.

Improvements and changes are coming to Examity for summer!  Examity’s new developments include improved Canvas integration, new user interface for both students and instructors, automated proctoring with a human audit, a lockdown browser, and improved user documentation. Note: Examity is only available in select courses and requires pre-approval by your school dean.

This webinar will be repeated on the following dates: Friday, April 16, and Tuesday, April 20.

Transparent assignment designs have been proven to motivate increased student effort and to promote student success. Clarification and elaboration of an assignments’ purpose, task, and grading criteria works to scaffold student learning activities. Doing so helps all students, but especially students from underserved populations and students who are unfamiliar with college success strategies. In this webinar, participants will be introduced to the transparent design framework, analyze sample transparent assignments, and will begin drafting or revising a transparent assignment.

This webinar will provide an overview of the general education course review process, course dossier requirements, and the rubric that will be used to review the course dossiers. It will also address the option for preparing a simplified course dossier based on using a Mile Marker assignment.

Want ideas to improve your online or hybrid course? Join us for this one-day workshop to learn about the Quality Matters (QM) Rubric, about the QM process of continuous improvement, and to join the QM community! Attendees may use the workshop as step to becoming a certified Quality Matters peer reviewer. The workshop is offered at IUPUI as a one-day synchronous Zoom workshop from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. with a one hour break for lunch. To receive the QM certificate of completion for this workshop, participants must be present for and participate in the entire workshop.

Each semester, the Faculty Forum offers writing groups that provide encouragement, accountability, and a sense of community for faculty and staff. There are three ways to participate: Hybrid Writing Group, Online Writing Group and At-Your-Pace. Click here for more information and registration or contact us at: faccross@iupui.edu.

SAVI Equity Data & Information Hub 

The Polis Center is working on a SAVI Equity Data and Information Hub, and we seek your input on which priorities, topics, and content we should focus as we build it. What inequities keep you awake at night?  What type of data and information do you feel is not being generated or shared publicly that would help shed light on inequities? Please send your suggestions to Sharon Kandris.

Digital Encyclopedia of Indianapolis 

The Polis Center at IUPUI—in collaboration with The Indianapolis Public Library and several major Indianapolis cultural and heritage institutions and organizations—is developing a bicentennial legacy project: a digital version of the Encyclopedia of Indianapolis. Building on the 1994 print version, the free, web-based resource is expected to launch in early summer 2021. Click for more information or to Subscribe to its public newsletter  .

Upcoming SAVI Data Literacy Skills Training:  SAVI data literacy training empowers you to find, use, and understand data. The next class is as follows:

• Find Existing Data | April 15, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.- Register 

The Institute for Engaged Learning is excited to host the second annual Engaged Learning Showcase beginning April 26, 2021. The Engaged Learning Showcase will highlight engaged learning across the IUPUI campus and community—from curricular to co-curricular activities. To learn more... 

Mini-grants ranging from $250 and $750 are available through the Center for Service and Learning to support dissemination and practitioner-scholar participation in external learning opportunities and networks that advance professional growth and which can further evidence base and scholarly profile of IUPUI in public and community-engaged scholarship in and across the domains of teaching, research and service. The application deadline is April 30, 2021. Click for application and deadline information.

On May 12, The Center for Service and Learning (CSL) Coffee Chat will feature The Jury’s in: Online teaching strategies that have enhanced student learning in my community-engaged courses .  After a year’s experience of learning to navigate academic-community partnerships as part of online and hybrid courses, we each have myriad lessons learned. In what ways has your view of the [in]compatibility of community-engaged teaching and learning shifted over this past year? Which strategies have been most effective in supporting students learning with and from communities? Click to register for this event.

Gouvea, J. S. (2021). Antiracism and the Problems with “Achievement Gaps” in STEM Education.CBE—Life Sciences Education, 20(1), fe2.
While achievement gaps are often discussed in conversations about promoting equity in classes, these conversations can inadvertently perpetuate racism. This article provides an overview of three recent articles on persistent inequities in STEM classrooms to provide context around how we talk about achievement and how we measure achievement in our courses.