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| Engaged Student Learning: Lessons Learned From the Flipped Classroom |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
A successful “flipped classroom” includes shifting first exposure, ensuring accountability, and using active learning. This session will feature four panelists describing their approaches to “flipping the classroom… |
| Active & Engaged Learning in Digital Contexts |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
The explosion of technological tools in education has widened the range of physical locations where learning happens, even in traditional residential colleges. Digital contexts are now a part of many courses at U-M from classes that use the… |
| SLAM: Characterizing Instruction in Introductory Science Courses at Michigan State University |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
In this session, Becky Matz (CREATE for STEM Institute, Michigan State University) will characterize how patterns in teaching activities in introductory science classes differ by discipline at MSU and offer preliminary data on the teaching of… |
| Ninth Annual Research and Scholarship in Engineering Education Poster Fair |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Many faculty and graduate students across the university are engaged in scholarly work in the field of engineering education. At this poster session, colleagues will share their research and scholarship on a variety of topics including… |
| Organize, Streamline and Simplify: Teaching Efficiently with Technology |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
If you weren't able to make it to the first offering of this workshop in February, please join us on March 12 for a repeat offering of Organize, Streamline and Simplify: Teaching Efficiently with Technology
In this… |
| Advanced Practices for Inclusive Teaching |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
Using teaching methods that effectively engage all students within a classroom is of ongoing interest to GSIs in any discipline. Instructors often ask: What does inclusive teaching really look like in practice? How do I know if the methods I am… |
| Using Technology to Check Student Understanding and Provide Feedback: An Online Workshop |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
In this online workshop, you will explore technologies that can be used to help check student understanding and provide feedback on student learning. You will have the option to explore these tools in the context of teaching concept based… |
| Organize, Streamline and Simplify: Teaching Efficiently with Technology |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
In this interactive session, we will dicuss some of the common challenges of being a GSI, and share technology resources that can help you overcome them. Topics covered will include:
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| SLAM: Two Years of Michigan MOOCs: What Analytics Tell us About Learning in these Environments |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Presenters: Christopher Brooks and Stephanie Teasley, School of Information, U-M For more information about learning analytics at U-M and to view videos and slides from past SLAM presentations, click here.
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| 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… |
| SLAM: Case Of The Month: An Interactive Approach to Case Based Learning in Oral Pathology |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Case Of The Month: An Interactive Approach to Case Based Learning in Oral Pathology, presented by Renee Ismail, U-M, School of Dentistry For more information about learning analytics at U-M and to view videos and slides from past… |
| SLAM: Multi-Institutional Explorations of Grade Penalties |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Two Presentations: Multi-Institutional Explorations of Grade Penalties presented by Benjamin Koester, Physics, U-M Case Of The Month: An Interactive Approach to Case Based Learning in Oral Pathology, presented by Renee Ismail, U-… |
| Creating a Classroom Environment to Enable All Students to Succeed |
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Everyone |
Specific classroom strategies and teaching behaviors that support success of a diverse student body in engineering will be presented, as will practical advice for instructors seeking to implement these ideas. Participants will engage in a series… |
| Implementing Your Active Learning Plan: Advanced Practice Teaching |
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- Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
This session offers participants an opportunity to practice active learning techniques by presenting a lesson to a small peer group. In advance of the session, participants will review short online podcasts about active learning and will plan a… |
| SLAM: Quantitative Insights on In-Class Creation and Sharing of Knowledge |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
From “think-pair-share” to group projects, it is well known that collaborative elements enhance active learning. We examined three university and community college classes using SKIES, a tablet-based technology that enables students and teachers… |
| Research-Based Principles for Making Learning Work |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
Seven key teaching principles have been shown in the research literature to promote student learning. This session will allow participants to engage in a series of activities that highlight the principles and to identify ways to apply the… |
| 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… |
| Facilitating Discussions in the Social Sciences and Humanities |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
How can I heighten student participation in my sections? What are different ways I can plan a discussion and ask questions of students? How can I enhance students’ critical thinking skills? This seminar will provide GSIs in social science and… |
| Now That I Have It, What Grade Should I Give It? Evaluating Student Writing |
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Everyone Requirement B2 |
Evaluating student writing is one of the most subjective and elusive tasks that we as instructors undertake each semester. In this workshop, we will work to alleviate some of the anxiety surrounding the evaluation process by discussing the use of… |
| GSI Teaching Orientation |
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Graduate Students Requirement A |
CRLT’s GSI Teaching Orientation is designed to help new GSIs prepare for their initial teaching experiences. It also has proven to be a valuable event for experienced GSIs and for graduate students who anticipate teaching in the future. … |
| What's It Like to Teach at a Liberal Arts College? |
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Graduate Students Not eligible for Certificate |
Interested in teaching at a liberal arts college? A faculty panel from liberal arts colleges will discuss job search strategies and faculty worklife. Please note that the date of this event has been changed from the… |
| Research-Based Practices for College Teaching: An Online Workshop |
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Everyone Requirement B2 |
In this online workshop, you will see examples of active learning at U-M, reflect on how these techniques could be applied in your own classroom, and engage with fellow graduate students to address any obstacles to implementing the techniques.… |
| SLAM: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
For more information about learning analytics at U-M and to view videos and slides from past SLAM presentations, click here. |
| SLAM: Tell Us How You Really Feel: Insights from Large-Scale Text Analysis of Student Survey Responses |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
We present initial results from a large-scale text mining analysis of student written responses to UM course evaluation questions, based on a dataset comprising millions of comments for thousands of courses over 10 semesters. Our goals are to (… |
| Ways That Work: Effective Classroom Teaching |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
How can faculty support student learning and engagement during class time? This session will focus on that very question, highlighting research-based practices that are efficient and can be implemented into engineering courses. Participants… |
