CTL Happenings - Message #531

The 2022 Curriculum Enhancement Grant (CEG) Request for Proposals is now open. The CEG provides faculty with technical and instructional support, time, and funds to implement projects that enhance courses and curricula for inclusive and equitable student learning experiences using innovative pedagogies, technology, or high-impact practices like Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences or ePortfolios. Proposal submissions are due by January 31, 2022. Read RFP and submit a proposal.

McFadden, L. B. (2021, June 11). Through the students’ eyes: Insights into what’s most important.
Faculty Focus. 

As you’re finalizing your course prep for the spring semester, read this instructor’s reflections on her course evaluations and consider which strategies you could use to make your class meetings more meaningful, inclusive, and engaging for your students.

In this webinar, we will discuss how we can use instructional technologies to combat potential problems associated with large classes. We’ll discuss some principles and easy to use tools. Lastly, we’ll end with some discussion time in which you can share your common difficulties with large classes; this discussion will guide the programming and resources we create for spring 2022.

Join this webinar to learn how to integrate InScribe into your Canvas course. InScribe allows students to post their questions anonymously, and can also endorse students’ answers.  InScribe is also available to all IU students at no additional cost.  To learn more about how InScribe can be used with your courses, especially in large courses, please join us for this webinar.

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.

A teaching philosophy presents a faculty member’s reflection on the experiences and beliefs that shape his or her teaching and learning strategies. Often used as part of a job application, a promotion and tenure dossier, a teaching award nomination, or course syllabi, a teaching philosophy captures and documents a teacher’s values and aspirations in teaching. This webinar will review one model for structuring a teaching philosophy and will also examine some example philosophies. Webinar participants will take the first steps in articulating their teaching philosophy; those who have already begun to craft a philosophy will have an opportunity to continue that work. This webinar is the 1st webinar in a 3-webinar series designed to introduce faculty and graduate students to the process of creating, refining and documenting one’s teaching practices.

Have you ever had the experience of reading your end-of-semester student evaluations and found yourself surprised by the comments? You don’t have to wait until the end of the semester to find out how students feel the course is going! Gathering mid-semester feedback helps students feel like they are being heard and gives you useful information that allows you to make improvements and address concerns in the current class. In this webinar, we will discuss a variety of ways to gather mid-semester feedback including surveys, focus groups, and classroom assessment techniques, and respond to what your students say.

Each semester, the Faculty Forum offers writing groups that provide encouragement, accountability, and a sense of community for faculty and staff. Participants will meet on Zoom for two hours each week. In the first 15 minutes of the meeting, participants will discuss a writing - related topic and share session writing goals. The remaining time is spent quietly writing. There are two options:
      1. Tuesdays 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
      2. Wednesdays 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (members of the Wednesday group can participate online or in person at The Faculty Crossing at IUPUI)
The Tuesday writing group session will start January 4 and the Wednesday section January 5. You can join anytime throughout the semester.
Membership is open to IUPUI, IUPUC, and IU Fort Wayne faculty and staff of all ranks, appointments, and disciplines.

For more information and registration or contact faccross@iupui.edu.

Getting Started with eText workshops, beginning Jan. 7 - Feb 17

ePortfolio Studio at IUPUI, your hub got ePortfolio support!  Opening Jan 10

Academy of Teaching Scholars: Intro to Educational Research, Jan. 26, 2 p.m.