CTL Happenings - Message #521

Join us Friday, November 5 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Advancing Teaching and Learning Symposium! Our theme this year is learning from our experiences teaching and learning in a pandemic to help both ourselves and our students. Our keynote speaker, Dr. Thomas Tobin of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will share three low-effort, high-impact teaching strategies to improve our post-pandemic classes. The Call for Proposals is also open if you would like to join us as a presenter! Learn more at the ATLT Website.

Dittman, A., Stephens, N., & Townsend, S. (2021, July 20). Research: How our class background affects the way we collaborate. Harvard Business Review

This article highlights research that shows that interdependent teamwork that leverages the group’s collective expertise and skills, rather than the divide and conquer approach, enables team members from lower social-class background to perform to their fullest potential or sometimes, even outperform their typically more advantaged counterparts from higher social-class background. Consider these implications when designing collaborative learning activities for your students!

Additional reading – Learn more about how focus on independence over inter-dependence undermines the academic performance of first-generation college students.

Well-organized Canvas modules provide an effective checklist for both instructors and students to ensure all content is being covered. This webinar, offered by the IU campus teaching and learning centers, will provide a basic understanding of how to setup a Canvas course using Modules to organize your assignments, discussions, files, and more.

Faculty who seek to refine and promote their teaching efforts may document their work through the development of a teaching portfolio, a site where faculty engage in reflective practice to measure the effectiveness of, and to refine, their teaching practices. This webinar introduces faculty to the teaching portfolio and to the several interrelated tasks that yield the teaching portfolio's elements: developing a teaching philosophy, identifying specific teaching practices to explore, document, and to improve, situating an identified teaching practices in an appropriate context, and collecting and evaluating evidence of teaching and learning.

As IUPUI continues the process of reviewing general education courses, course coordinators or faculty responsible for preparing course dossiers for review may have questions about the information and materials that need to go into the dossiers. This webinar will provide an overview of the 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. Examples from existing course dossiers will be incorporated into the webinar. Questions and discussion will be encouraged.

Getting students to come to class prepared can be a challenge, but it is essential to making productive use of class time. Learning increases when students prepare for class meetings and, in turn, helps students see the value of assuming responsibility for their learning. This session will introduce instructional strategies to guide students’ pre-class learning, making explicit the relevance pre-class work and its assessment to student learning outcomes.

• Faculty Funding to Adopt, Adapt, or Create Open Educational Resources
• Academy of Teaching Scholars: An Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Education Research
• Upcoming SAVI Data Literacy Skills Training
• 2021 SEIRI Seed Grant (SSG) Request For Proposals Now Available