| Event | Dates | Short Description Sort ascending |
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| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| Instructional Technology January 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… |
| Developing a Plan for Addressing GenAI Writing Tools in your Classroom this Fall (August 9) |
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Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdocs Requirement B2 |
New generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, have now become widely available and are raising concerns about how student learning can be assessed. Some have reacted with alarm, proclaiming that this is the end… |
| Developing a Plan for Addressing GenAI Writing Tools in your Classroom this Fall (August 22) |
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Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdocs Requirement B2 |
New generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, have now become widely available and are raising concerns about how student learning can be assessed. Some have reacted with alarm, proclaiming that this is the end… |
| Evidence-Based Teaching Practices to Shape Your Response to GenAI Writing Tools (August 1) |
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Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdocs Requirement B2 |
New generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, have now become widely available and are raising concerns about how student learning can be assessed. Some have reacted with alarm, proclaiming that this is the end… |
| Evidence-Based Teaching Practices to Shape Your Response to GenAI Writing Tools (July 26) |
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Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdocs Requirement B2 |
New generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, have now become widely available and are raising concerns about how student learning can be assessed. Some have reacted with alarm, proclaiming that this is the end… |
| Enriching Scholarship 2018 Keynote Workshop: Creating Effective Online Activities |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
Need some new ideas for online learning activities? Based on principles from The Blended Course Design Workbook: A Practical Guide this 2-hour interactive workshop will focus on creating effective online activities that are student-… |
| Supporting the Inclusion of Nontraditional Students in the Classroom |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
Nationally, there is a large percentage of students who are “nontraditional” in one or more ways (e.g., older/returning, caregiver, veteran). On U-M’s Ann Arbor campus, these students have reported that they feel isolated amongst a largely… |
| A Discussion with CRLT: Applying Inclusive Teaching Principles |
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Graduate Students |
N/A |
| Writing and Grading Multiple Choice Exams: An Online Workshop |
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Everyone Requirement B2 |
Multiple choice questions can be an effective and efficient way to assess learning outcomes. In this interactive online workshop, participants will learn about evidence-based practices for designing valid and reliable multiple choice questions… |
| Writing and Grading Multiple Choice Exams: An Online Workshop |
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Everyone Requirement B2 |
Multiple choice exams can be an effective and efficient way to assess learning outcomes. In this interactive online workshop, participants will learn about evidence-based practices for designing valid and reliable multiple choice questions across… |
| Writing and Grading Multiple Choice Exams |
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Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Undergraduate Students, Everyone Requirement B2 |
Multiple choice exams can be an effective and efficient way to assess learning outcomes. In this asynchronous 2-week workshop, participants will learn about evidence-based practices for designing valid and reliable multiple… |
| Implementing Inclusive Teaching Principles in Your Classroom |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
Much scholarship on teaching and learning provides insights about the importance of an explicitly inclusive classroom climate for student learning, the value of learning collaboratively with diverse peers, and the benefits of intentionally… |
| Implementing Inclusive Teaching Principles in Your Classroom |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
Much scholarship on teaching and learning provides insights about the importance of an explicitly inclusive classroom climate for student learning, the value of learning collaboratively with diverse peers, and the benefits of intentionally… |
| Catalyzing Learning Using Learning Catalytics |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Most -- if not all -- of the important skills in our life are acquired outside the traditional classroom setting. Yet we continue to teach using lectures where students passively take down information. Instead, we should really focus on the… |
| Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM): Teaching 150K+ Students at a Time: The PowerSearchingWithGoogle.com Story |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have become incredibly popular in just the past 12 months. Many MOOCs have had more that 100K students register for their courses. Is this the future of online education? … |
| Critical Dialogue in Community: Navigating Moments of Friction, Tension, and Conflict as GSIs |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
Moments of friction, tension, and conflict are part of the experience of working in instructional teams as a GSI. In this interactive synchronous workshop led by Graduate Student Instructional Consultants, GSIs will reflect on their role and… |
| Teaching with Technology: MiQuizMaker |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
MiQuizMaker is an instructional tool that supports efficient development of quizzes that can be imported into Canvas. Users compose questions with multiple versions and combine question types (true/false, calculation-based, and others) to create… |
