CTL Happenings - Message #522

Join your colleagues across IU to help shape the future of online education by attending the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) Accelerate 2021 virtual conference to be held September 20-24, 2021.The program will feature hundreds of interactive synchronous and asynchronous sessions on topics such as access, equity, open education, instructional design, and more. Check out the details of the conference schedule and register.

Are you new or returning adjunct faculty at IUPUI, IUPUC, or IUFW? If so, join us for the Associate Faculty Teaching Forum (AFTF), online on Zoom, Sept 29, 5:15 - 8:15 p.m. Join your faculty colleagues in forum-style conversations about teaching and technology challenges. This year’s theme is Fostering Mental Health and Well-Being Among Faculty and Students, and this year's AFTF keynote speaker will be Julia Lash of Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). Registration is now open.

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.

Johnson, M. (2021, August 11). 10 Course Policies to Rethink on Your Fall Syllabus. The Chronicle of Higher Education.

The semester may have already started, but it’s not too late to take another look at your syllabus as we begin another semester during trying times. This article by Matthew Johnson brings up 10 elements of your syllabus that you may not have considered as you prepped for this fall, but that might make a huge difference for the health and well-being of your students. If you decide to make changes after the start of the semester, discuss them with your students and explain the rationale.

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.

Regardless of the course format in which you are teaching and the types of assignments you use, academic misconduct could be a concern for you. In this webinar, we will discuss tools and teaching strategies to mitigate and address academic misconduct. You will create your recipe for promoting academic integrity that takes into consideration your course context.

Active learning strategies in the classroom have shown to increase student' motivation, improve critical and higher-order thinking skills, and stay engaged and attentive during the class session. It helps create a three-way interaction among the students, the subject content, and the instructor. In this webinar, we will discuss a broad spectrum of research-based active learning strategies that can be adapted into different learning environments and disciplines.

• ePortfolio Studio: The peer-run space where students can get help creating their portfolios is now open.
• Attend the SEIRI workshop instructing faculty on the development of Logic Models. 
• 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