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| Grading Matters: Inclusive Grading and Assessment |
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Faculty |
Testing and assessment practices influence much that happens in our classrooms. In this session, we will explore key findings from research on how assignment, testing, and grading practices can promote student motivation and foster learning for… |
| Flipping Your Classroom: The Nuts and Bolts |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
The “flipped classroom” has garnered considerable attention in the academy in recent years. This approach to teaching involves the use of podcasting, videos, and other strategies to shift students’ initial exposure to content from the lecture… |
| Teaching in a “Flipped Classroom” – A Four Part Series. (Faculty Only) |
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Faculty |
The “flipped classroom” has garnered considerable attention in the academy over the past year. This approach to teaching involves the use of podcasting and other strategies to shift students’ initial exposure to content from the lecture hall to… |
| Teaching in a “Flipped Classroom” – A Four-Session Learning Community |
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- - - Faculty |
The “flipped classroom” has garnered considerable attention in the academy over the past year. This approach to teaching involves the use of podcasting and other strategies to shift students’ initial exposure to content from the lecture hall to… |
| The Flipped Classroom |
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Faculty |
The “flipped classroom” has garnered considerable attention in the academy over the past year. This approach to teaching involves the use of podcasting and other strategies to shift students’ initial exposure to content from the lecture hall to… |
| Teaching in a New Era: Exploring the Impacts of the 2016 Presidential Election (LUNCH event) |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
The 2016 election has affected the teaching and learning environment on campuses across the country. Many instructors are grappling with questions about how their teaching will or should change in the face of uncertainty about changing policies… |
| Peer Instruction: A Workshop (Eric Mazur, Harvard University) |
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Everyone Requirement B2 |
The basic goals of Peer Instruction are to encourage and make use of student interaction during lectures, while focusing students' attention on underlying concepts and techniques. The method has been assessed in many studies using standardized,… |
| Emerging Tech: Piazza |
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Faculty |
The Emerging Technology workshop series highlights tools that have proven to be useful for promoting active student engagement both inside and outside the classroom. The three highlighted tools, Piazza , M+Box , and CTools Test Center, are… |
| 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… |
| Engaging the World From Your Classroom |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
The purpose of this event is to highlight efforts on campus to provide significant global experiences for students in the context of their coursework, providing faculty with the opportunity to share their experiences and to encourage campus… |
| Effective Teaching Practices for the Flipped Classroom *SESSION IS FULL* |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
The session will highlight general principles for designing a flipped class, including how to shift the first exposure of course content before class, how to hold students accountable for completing pre-class work, and how to actively engage… |
| Developing an Engineering Teaching Philosophy Statement for Your Academic Job Application |
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Graduate Students |
The statement of teaching philosophy is becoming an increasingly common part of applications for academic jobs in engineering. In this interactive session, participants will focus on the benefits of writing a teaching philosophy statement,… |
| An Introduction to Student Learning and Analytics (SLAM) at U-M |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
The Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM) Seminar is a year-long speaker series featuring both U-M faculty and visitors from other campuses. In this session, Professor Tim McKay, Chair of the Provost's Learning Analytics Task Force,… |
| Learning Analytics at U-M: An Update and Agenda for 2013-15 |
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Not eligible for Certificate |
The Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM) Seminar series features both U-M faculty and visitors from other campuses, focusing on the use of data about students, courses and academic programs -- for the purposes of improving teaching… |
| Foundational Course Initiative Seminar: A model for bringing the excitement of cutting edge research labs into foundational laboratory courses: Lessons learned from the Dynamic Genome program |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
The University of California, Riverside (UCR) is one of the most diverse research universities in the country. More than half of the 5000 students in our College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) are supported by Pell grants, are… |
| Enriching Scholarship: Innovate With Digital Content: Early Adopters Needed |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
The Unizin Consortium, of which UM is a founding member, is intent on making the discovery and adoption of digital content central to pedagogy by providing a rich marketplace of content, systems, and tools to facilitate this vision. A fundamental… |
| Exploring Alternative Grading Strategies |
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Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Undergraduate Students Requirement B2 |
The way that instructors assess student performance has a profound effect on how students experience learning and how instructors spend their limited resources of time and energy. In this interactive synchronous workshop,… |
| Exploring Alternative Grading Strategies |
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Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Undergraduate Students Requirement B2 |
The way that instructors assess student performance has a profound effect on how students experience learning and how instructors spend their time inside and outside of class. In this online synchronous workshop, participants… |
| The USE Lab, Andrew Krumm, Steven Lonn, R. Joseph Waddington, and Stephanie Teasley |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
The USE Lab, Andrew Krumm, Steven Lonn, R. Joseph Waddington, and Stephanie Teasley. Leveraging Learning Analytics for Undergraduate Engineering Education and Beyond
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| Teaching Collaborative Writing - Co-sponsored by Sweetland Writing Center |
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Everyone Requirement B2 |
There are many reasons why you might want to ask students to collaborate on a writing project. Perhaps collaborative research and writing is the norm in your academic field, or you believe it represents a type of writing students will be asked to… |
| Facilitating Discussions of Research Literature in STEM Courses *SESSION IS FULL* |
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Everyone Requirement B2 |
There will be an identical session offered on 10/19 from 9:30am-11:30am. Facilitating Discussion of Research Literature in STEM Courses This workshop provides an opportunity for instructors in STEM courses to discuss evidence-… |
| Implementing Inclusive Teaching Principles in Your Courses *SESSION IS FULL* |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
There will be an identical session offered on 11/1 from 10am-12pm. Implementing Inclusive Teaching Principles in Your Courses Each semester, we offer this foundational session as well as workshops on specialized… |
| Teaching in Tumultuous Times: Making Choices About How to Address the World Beyond Your Classroom *SESSION FULL* |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
There will be an identical session offered on 11/14 from 2pm-4pm. Teaching in Tumultuous Times: Making Choices About How to Address the World Beyond Your Classroom Racist fliers, hateful graffiti, mass shootings, emails… |
| Disability and Accessible Teaching: Current Perspectives and Best Practices *SESSION FULL* |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
There will be an identical session offered on 11/27 from 1:30pm-3:30pm. Disability and Accessible Teaching: Current Perspectives and Best Practices Understanding disability and promoting accessibility are central to diversity,… |
| Inclusive Teaching @ Michigan Series - Activities for Leveraging Student Diversity Part 1 |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
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 diversity--both visible and invisible--in their classes to foster… |
