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The CTL awarded 11 Curriculum Enhancement Grants to 26 faculty members as principal or co-principal investigators for projects that will impact 2,206 students annually. One of the projects, which focuses on the High-Impact Practice of integrating ePortfolios in the program, will be funded in collaboration with the Institute for Engaged Learning.
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Featured Webinar
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Quality Matters at IU: Applying the Quality Matters Rubric to Online Courses
Want ideas to improve your online or hybrid course? Learn about the Quality Matters (QM) Rubric and QM Process to guide your online course design. Attendees may use the webinar as a step to becoming a certified Quality Matters peer reviewer.
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Featured Resource
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SoTL Resource on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion-related Teaching and Learning Work
Check out this annotated bibliography of articles related to inclusive and equitable learning and leveraging diversity in the classroom, disciplines, and professions. Get inspired to write about your own DEI-related teaching strategies.
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Faculty: Help Cultivate Digital Literacy Across IU
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Be one of 35 IU faculty in the Digital Gardener Faculty Fellows Program Fall 2022 cohort and work to incorporate digital ways of knowing, doing, and making into your curriculum. Faculty will build individual skills, develop curriculum materials, and work collaboratively with others across campuses and disciplines. Deadline to apply is Tuesday, May 3. Learn more about the fellowship and apply today.
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Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Conference – Call for Proposals
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The Institute for Learning & Teaching Excellence (ILTE) at IU Southeast is currently accepting proposals for their 6th annual Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Conference. The theme for the proposals focuses on how you will engage participants in an online environment. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Carol Hostetter, Indiana University – Bloomington who is internationally recognized for her work in SoTL. Proposals are due by midnight, May 20, 2022. The conference will take place on Friday, September 23, 2022 via Zoom. For more information or for questions, please contact the ILTE at seilte@ius.edu.
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A Stunning Level of Student Disconnection: Professors are Reporting Record Numbers of Students Checked Out, Stressed Out, and Unsure of Their Future
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McMurtrie, B. (2022, April 5). A ‘stunning’ level of student disconnection: Professors are reporting record numbers of students checked out, stressed out, and unsure of their future. Chronicle of Higher Education.
If you are experiencing a higher than usual number of students who seem disconnected in your courses, this article might provide you with some useful insights into what’s happening with students across the country and how faculty, who may be feeling stressed themselves, are responding. This article can be accessed for free when on the IU Network or by signing up for a free.
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CTL Workshops and Webinars
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Teaching Foundations: Slide Show Presentation Best Practices
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Thursday, May 19 | 12 noon - 1 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register »Organizer(s): Douglas Jerolimov and Presenter(s): Douglas Jerolimov, Randy Newbrough
Slide show presentations prepared in PowerPoint are ubiquitous but don't always support learning. In this session, participants will discover evidence-based slide show presentation techniques that encourage learning and promote engagement.
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Teaching Foundations: Designing Transparent Assignments
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Thursday, June 9 | 12 noon - 1 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register »Organizer(s): Jessica Alexander and Presenter(s): Jessica Alexander, Douglas Jerolimov
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.
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Have you heard of PechaKucha?
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Take your presentation skills to another level when you learn how to create and present in the fast-paced PechaKucha format. Sign up for the PechaKucha workshop series and present at PechaKucha Night!
Learn more and apply today!
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April 28: SAVI training: Find Existing Data
May 25: SAVI training: Frame the Problem
June 8 - 9: The REMOTE virtual summit, hosted by ASU, where faculty, staff, and administrators share strategies for all learning modalities, is free again this year
June 15: LEAP Indiana Teaching Awards Nominations Due
June 24: Teach, Play, Learn Conference
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