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| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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 … |
| FCI Seminar Series: Curiosity and the Pleasures of Learning: Leveraging Internal Student Motivation to Learn Through Curiosity |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
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| FCI Seminar Series: Strategies for Creating Inclusive and Welcoming Classroom Environments |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
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| 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… |
| Teaching Innovation Poster Fair |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
To register for this event please click here. At this poster session, STEM faculty and graduate student instructors will share their teaching innovations, their classroom research, and other educational scholarship that supports teaching… |
| Disability and Accessible Teaching: Current Perspectives and Best Practices *SESSION IS FULL* |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
Understanding disability and promoting accessibility are central to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. In this workshop, participants will gain a better understanding of what disability is and how thinking about disability has evolved.… |
| Digging Deeper: Enhancing Your Community-Based Teaching [SESSION CANCELED] |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
Are you looking to enhance your community-engaged learning and teaching? Would you like to connect with other community-based learning practitioners? This workshop, co-led by staff from LSA’s Office of Community-Engaged Academic Learning and the… |
| What's at Stake: Instructor Identities in the R&E Classroom (focus on white instructors) |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
This workshop will examine the intersections and dynamics of instructor identities in classrooms that critically engage issues of race, ethnicity, and inequity. With a particular focus on the experiences of white identified faculty and GSIs,… |
| Organize, Streamline, and Simplify: Teaching Efficiently With Technology *SESSION IS FULL* |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
In this interactive session, we will discuss some of the common challenges of being a GSI and share technology resources that can help you overcome them. Possible topics covered will include
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| The Science of Learning [RESCHEDULED SESSION] |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
In this workshop, we will summarize key findings on how people learn, and connect them to practical implications for teaching. Through interactive activities based on the science of learning, you will investigate teaching strategies you… |
| Implementing Inclusive Teaching Principles [NEW SESSION] |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
Each semester, we offer this foundational session as well as workshops on specialized topics in inclusive teaching. This session will be especially useful for faculty and GSIs who are relatively new to thinking deliberately about… |
| Implementing Inclusive Teaching Principles [RESCHEDULED SESSION] |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
Each semester, we offer this foundational session as well as workshops on specialized topics in inclusive teaching. This session will be especially useful for faculty and GSIs who are relatively new to thinking deliberately about… |
| Making the Most of Hot Moments in the Classroom |
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Everyone Requirement B2 |
Whether your courses frequently raise potentially sensitive subjects or never do so deliberately, odds are good you will sometimes encounter a 'hot moment': a sudden eruption of tension, conflict, or big emotion during class, often connected to 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… |
| Addressing Problematic Team Dynamics |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
To register for this event please click here. How can instructors handle conflicts on teams? What is the range of intervention strategies that instructors might use? In this interactive session, participants will… |
| Introduction to Engaged Design: Developing Community-Based Learning Courses |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
Have you been thinking about developing a new course that integrates community engagement? Would you like to learn how to best transform an existing course into a community-based learning course? In this session, co-led by staff from LSA’s Office… |
| Faculty Panel: Instructional Technology in the Engineering Classroom |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
College of Engineering faculty present their experiences with a range of instructional tools. Presenters include Marcus Darden (EECS) speaking about Gradescope and Robin Fowler (TC) discussing Speedgrader.
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