CTL Happenings - Message #602

Mowreader, A. (2024, September 19). Acknowledging the Silent Stigma of Student Parents. Inside Higher Ed.

Approximately 1,500 students aged 25 and older attend IU Indianapolis. Did you know that around 1 in 5 college students nationally have a dependent under the age of 18? Adult and student parents are often a hidden population. This article offers guidance for promoting belonging and success for these learners.

On September 19, the CTL recognized seven outstanding faculty and staff members for their invaluable contributions to advancing excellence in teaching practices, promoting evidence-based strategies, fostering inclusivity and equity, and prioritizing student learning and success.

Learn more about our 2024 recipients.

From the threat of deep fakes, synthetic media where a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else’s likeness using AI, to the rising uncertainty around the effectiveness of AI software, it is important to develop digital critical thinking skills to ensure the Machine Uprising happens to someone else. And the first step? Know your enemy.

Learn more about deep fakes and AI.

Wednesday, October 23 | 1 - 2:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: DEPI and Presenter: April Law and Julia Sanders

You are invited to explore IU technology options. Speed Dating with Learning Technologies encourages participants to date a range of potential technology tools and services, gaining exposure to a lot of resources within a short period of time. Participants at the event will have nine minutes to speed date a specific tool or service. Each Zoom breakout room will feature a resource and matchmakers (presenters).

Monday, October 28 | 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Debbie Oesch-Minor & Rachel Swinford  and Presenter: Kathleen Blake Yancey

Join us for an exclusive webinar with Kathleen Blake Yancey, Kellogg Hunt Professor of English and Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Florida State University, as she explores how to maximize the potential of ePortfolios in higher education. A renowned expert in writing studies and portfolio theory, Yancey will share her insights drawn from decades of research and practice. As a leader in US assessment and ePortfolio development, she will discuss practical strategies for enhancing student learning through ePortfolios, drawn from her work, including Electronic Portfolios 2.0 and ePortfolio-as-Curriculum. This is a unique opportunity to learn from a distinguished expert on ePortfolio literacy and innovation.

Monday, October 28 | 2 - 3 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Kelly Scholl and Presenters: Eric Brinkman, Maggie Gilchrist, and Justin Hodgson

Workshop participants will be guided through a 2-step process:

1. Creating assignments/projects that include the use of AI/Generative AI.
2. Developing assessment practices that faculty can use to evaluate student learning & mastery in those designated assignments.

Check out the Digital Gardener webpage.

Wednesday, October 30 | 2 - 3 p.m. | Online-Zoom
Register » Organizer(s): Charity Bishop

IU Indianapolis has a strong portfolio of engaged learning opportunities, including undergraduate research, service learning, study abroad, internships, and capstone experiences. These forms of experiential learning have been designated a high-impact practices based on “evidence of significant educational benefits for students who participate in them—including and especially those from demographic groups historically underserved by higher education” (American Association of Colleges & Universities). Many of these experiences require students to opt-in, generating inequities in engagement across student groups, as some students have more flexibility and/or financial resources to participate than others. Embedding high-impact practices directly into courses is a powerful strategy for promoting equitable access to experiential and applied learning opportunities for our students. However, when we scale experiential learning in this way, quality tends to suffer, and a high-impact practice is only high-impact “when done well.” The Institute for Engaged Learning (go.iu.edu/engage) is committed to providing instructors with a wide-array of professional development opportunities, which include multiple-day “When Done Well” professional development institutes, communities of practice (over Zoom or Teams), and 1:1 consultations. 

Service Learning Community of Practice 

The Institute for Engaged Learning will host a Service Learning Community of Practice (SL CoP) during the 2024-2025 academic year. The SL CoP is open to any IU Indianapolis, IU Columbus, or IU Fort Wayne faculty interested in expanding their knowledge, network, or collaborative opportunities surrounding service learning. 

Each CoP meeting will be a 50-minute Zoom session. Sessions will be held: 

Thursday, Sept. 19, 11am 

Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2pm 

Wednesday, Dec. 11, 11am 

Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2pm 

Thursday, Mar. 6, 11am 

Wednesday, Apr. 23, 2pm 

Thursday, October 31 | 1 - 1:45 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Jeani Young and Presenter: Michael Mace

Do you create video content for your courses? Students with visible and invisible disabilities and those consuming content on mobile devices can have difficulty with video and find it frustrating to learn from. How can you make your videos accessible and usable for all your students?

Join us to learn about things you can do before, during, and after you record to make your video more accessible, usable, and engaging. We’ll also share best practices for video creation and available IU-supported tools to help you to improve the accessibility of your video content.

This event aligns with the following IUSM Academy of Teaching Scholars program competencies: Inclusive Teaching (I), Instructional Technology (IT)

Wednesday, November 6 | 1 - 1:45 p.m. | Online - Zoom
Register » Organizer: Jeani Young and Presenters: Boyun Kim, Meganne Masko, and Jeani Young

Your students perceive and make meaning of information differently than you do and differently from each other. Students with sensory or learning disabilities, neurodiverse students, first generation students, and students from diverse cultures and languages,  among many other types of variability, can all approach content differently. This means there is not one single means of representation that works for everyone. The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guideline, Multiple Means of Representation, recommends options for 

• accessing information,
• authentically representing multiple identities and perspectives,
• understanding language and symbols, and 
• building knowledge.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) provides a research-based framework with which to think about multiple ways to support student belonging, learning, persistence, and success. It includes three principles which explore designing for engagement, representation, and action and expression.

This is the second in a three-part webinar series on the three Universal Design for Learning principles. The remaining webinar is:

• Multiple means of action and expression (12/4, 1 – 1:45 p.m.)

The first webinar on Multiple means of engagement was recorded and will be available shortly

This event aligns with the following IUSM Academy of Teaching Scholars program competencies: Instructional Strategies (IS), Inclusive Teaching (I)

The second speaker in the Virtual PD series will be Dr. James Lang Ph.D., who is a Professor of Practice at the Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Notre Dame. His presentation will focus on his most recent book, Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It.

Friday, October 25 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon (EST). Register.

Part 2 of SEIRI’s logic model workshop will provide opportunities for participants to actively construct logic models for their projects, identifying key inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes. Facilitators will provide guidance on how to use the logic model as a dynamic tool for ongoing project monitoring, evaluation, and adaptation.

This in-person event will be held in the University Library, UL 1126, on Friday, October 25 from 2 to 3 p.m. EDT. Register.

his hands-on workshop is designed to guide participants in preparing their STEM education projects for grant proposal development and/or dissemination by identifying and defining their critical components. Please bring a description of your project to work on during the session. At the end of the workshop, participants will have created a set of the critical components of their innovations to effectively disseminate their projects to a wider audience.

This in-person event will be held in the University Library Ashby Browsing room on Friday, November 8 from 2 to 3 p.m. EST. Register.