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| Instructional Technology April Lunch: Getting Started with Online Collaboration Tools |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
Online collaboration tools (OCTs), such as Google Apps, are revolutionizing workplace productivity and teamwork. They also provide tremendous opportunities to enhance teaching, learning, and course management. These hands-on seminars will allow… |
| The Engaged Classroom: Skills for Facilitating Discussions for Faculty |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
Opportunities for classroom participation help connect students to the material, the instructor, and each other. Research shows that active participation fosters critical thinking, long-term retention of course material and improved… |
| Paperless Teaching |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
Paperless courses are not only environmentally friendly, but are also a format that can help you use technology to engage your students, increase efficiency, and improve communication with your class. We will discuss several strategies you can… |
| Paperless Teaching |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
Paperless courses are not only environmentally friendly, but are also a format that can help you use technology to engage your students, increase efficiency, and improve communication with your class. We will discuss several strategies you can… |
| Enriching Scholarship: Increasing Engagement in Large Classes: Ideas and Lessons from the LSA Large Course Initiative |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Participants in this roundtable discussion will hear from faculty in the LSA Large Course Initiative and will be invited to share techniques and strategies that have been effective for engaging students in their own large courses. Session… |
| Enriching Scholarship: Explorations in Learning Analytics |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Participants in this session will hear from a panel of U-M instructors engaged in learning analytics projects on campus. The focus of the panel discussion will be less on the findings of their research and more on their experience of engaging in… |
| Did You Really Mean That? Improving Communication With Your Students |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
Participants will discuss ways to enhance communication with students to make teaching more effective. Topics include: diverse learning preferences, miscommunication, and maintaining professional interactions. Participants will also discuss… |
| Maximizing Student Learning During Office Hours |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
Participants will discuss ways to make office hours most beneficial to students and identify strategies for dealing with common challenges. Using role-play and case studies, participants will brainstorm how to teach effectively during office… |
| Pedagogies for Understanding Race |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
Pedagogies for Understanding Race This session provides ideas and examples for enhancing pedagogy and engaging students effectively when teaching courses with a focus on race. The session will include brief presentations from… |
| Perry Samson, UM Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, and the LectureTools Team |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Perry Samson (UM Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences) and the LectureTools Team. Damn these data! The More I Know About Student Effort, the Less I Understand Student Outcomes.
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| Getting Ready for an Academic Career (PFF) Conference |
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Graduate Students Not eligible for Certificate |
Planning a career in academe? This half-day conference is designed to help graduate students and postdoctoral scholars prepare for the transition to faculty jobs. The plenary and concurrent sessions will offer materials and strategies to learn… |
| Enriching Scholarship 2019 Opening Keynote & Poster Fair |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Please click here to register. 9:00am-10:00am: Poster Fair and Strolling Breakfast The poster fair highlights the work of the five recipients of the 2019 Provost’s … |
| Using Analytics to Inform Instruction |
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Everyone |
Please click here to register. Canvas and other instructional technology tools generate data every time students and instructors interact with them -- data that can potentially be a powerful tool for informing instructors about their… |
| Increasing Engagement in Large Classes: Ideas and Lessons from the LSA Large Course Initiative |
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Everyone |
Please click here to register. Each year, the LSA Large Course Initiative brings together faculty to consider the challenges and opportunities present in large courses. As part of the initiative, faculty identify specific innovations they… |
| Empirical Data Collection and Analysis in the Classroom |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
Please click here to register. Experimental methodologies and data analysis are central to many discussions in social science classrooms. Often times, however, students are unable to practice these methods 'out in the wild'. This session… |
| Using hypothes.is for Class Discussion and Participation |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
Please click here to register. How might social annotation help teachers support classroom discussion and participation? In this workshop, participants will learn about… |
| Let's Make a Screencast |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
Please click here to register. In this workshop, we will be providing a basic overview of the screencasting software Kaltura Capture, followed by a hands-on opportunity to practice creating your own screencast. Screencasting is a method… |
| Integrating Themes of Social Justice in the Classroom |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
Please click here to register. It can be difficult to decide when and how to invoke (often times politicized) notions of social equity in the classroom. This workshop will examine methods for finding, presenting, and engaging with social… |
| Increasing Student Motivation: Strategies that Work |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
Please click here to register. Motivating today’s students to actively engage in learning activities proves challenging for most faculty. Very often millennial students do not respond as did students in the past to extrinsic motivators… |
| Promoting Effective Group Work: Forming and Evaluating Groups and Teams With Technology (Online Webinar) |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
Please click here to register. Research clearly indicates that group work can produce more learning than students working on their own. As an instructor, how do you structure group work to make it most effective, particularly with large… |
| Considerations for Using Social Media in Teaching |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
Please click here to register. What does it mean to use social media in the classroom? While social media platforms may provide useful and creative methods for student interaction, they also present a number of challenges and risks that… |
| REPEAT SESSION: Inclusive Teaching @ Michigan Series - Student Engagement with Each Other: Creating an Inclusive Classroom (IGR) |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A REPEAT OF THE SESSION OFFERED ON MONDAY, MAY 16. Join the Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR) for a session focused on engaging students to talk with each other as one mode for creating inclusive classrooms. While… |
| REPEAT SESSION: Inclusive Teaching @ Michigan Series - Activities for Leveraging Student Diversity Part 1 |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A REPEAT OF THE SESSION OFFERED ON TUES, MAY 10. These workshops are grounded in research showing that engaging with diverse peers can enhance student learning in the college classroom. How can instructors leverage student… |
| Time Management for Busy People |
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Graduate Students Not eligible for Certificate |
Presented by Mark Moldwin, This workshop will describe several useful strategies that graduate students may implement to be more productive writers, researchers, & scholars. Guaranteed to change your life for the better or your money back.… |
| SLAM: The Texas Vision: A Cross-institutional Strategy for Access, Affordability, and Student Success |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Presenter Steven Mintz, Executive Director, Institute for Transformational Learning at University of Texas System. For more information about learning analytics at U-M and to view videos and slides from past SLAM presentations, click… |
