CTL Happenings - Message #540

The Institute for Learning & Teaching Excellence (ILTE) at IU Southeast is currently accepting proposals for their 6^th 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.

Zheng, H. (2022, February 17). Short and sweet: The educational benefits of microlectures and active learning. Educause.

Zheng provides a great summary of whys and hows of taking your lecture from one long (let’s face it, nearly-unwatchable) video into shorter microlectures punctuated by active learning experiences that can be completed online. Contact a CTL consultant to learn how Kaltura, Quick Checks, PlayPosit, and other IU-supported tools can help you set up the activities suggested in this article!

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.

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.

Rubrics make grading consistent and speedy, and increases transparency of assignments to students. Rubrics also make concrete a course’s and assignment’s learning objectives, which helps students become critical thinkers and to assess their own work. In this webinar, you will learn basic principles to streamline the creation of rubrics for equitable and effective assessment of student learning. You will also evaluate and discuss the merits of sample rubrics.

Would you like to learn about how the practice of curriculum mapping can help maintain your program’s accreditation or improve student learning outcomes? Curriculum mapping helps you gain greater clarity about what students are expected to learn in your program, and in which courses. Mapping makes visible the gaps and redundancies of your program’s curriculum, and is the first step to assessing your program’s effectiveness in bringing about student learning. Join us for this introductory webinar on curriculum mapping!

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!

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