Event Dates Short Description
Engaging the World From Your Classroom -
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…

Teaching Is Not Learning -
Everyone
Not eligible for Certificate

Many instructors feel they have “done their jobs” when they have covered all the course material. But did students learn? In fact, have the instructors done anything that a good book or video could not have done in their place? From the…

SLAM: Learning Analytics, Digital Education, and Innovation at U-M -
Everyone
Not eligible for Certificate

In this session, James Hilton, Vice Provost for Digital Education & Innovation, will give an update on the Digital Education and Innovation (DEI) office, the intersections of digital education and learning analytics, and how the university is…

CRLT-Engin 10th Anniversary Celebration -
Everyone
Not eligible for Certificate

Join CRLT-Engin at a wine and cheese reception to celebrate and reflect on teaching at UM College of Engineering.

A formal program will begin at 4:30 pm with remarks by Dr. Richard M. Felder (Hoechst Celanese Professor of Chemical…

Cooperative Learning: Turning Student Groups into High-Performance Teams -
Everyone
Requirement B2

FULL:  What are productive ways to involve students in lecture, laboratory, and project courses? How can individual contributions to team efforts be assessed and taken into account in…

Facilitating Discussions in the Social Sciences and Humanities -
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…

University of Michigan New Faculty Orientation - August 27, 2014 -
Faculty
Not eligible for Certificate
GSI Teaching Orientation (GSITO) -
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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.

A…

Using Technology to Check Student Understanding and Provide Feedback: An Online Workshop -
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…
Engaging Students in Learning: An Online Workshop -
Everyone
Requirement B2, Instructional Technology

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.…

Enriching Scholarship: Five Ways to Use Screencasting -
Everyone
Requirement B2

Screencasting is is an exciting and adaptable technology that is drawing the attention of instructors and students on college campuses across the country. It involves capturing audio narration along with computer screen images to produce a video…

Enriching Scholarship: Explorations in Learning Analytics -
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 -
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: Creative Uses of Technology to Assess Student Learning -
Everyone
Requirement B2

How do you know your students are "getting it" before they take an exam or write a paper? Creative use of technology early in the learning process can help instructors efficiently gauge student progress and provide valuable opportunities for…

Enriching Scholarship: Using Everyday Technologies for Teaching -
Everyone
Requirement B2

This workshop will offer an overview of various everyday, easily accessible technologies that can be used as pedagogical tools in the classroom and in the production of student work. We will review how to utilize these technologies for presenting…

Enriching Scholarship: Gameful Learning 2.0 -
Everyone
Requirement B2

This session helps instructors bring strategies from the world of games to their courses. Sometimes called "gamification," gameful practices include "leveling up" (instead of being marked down), safe failures (instead of high-stakes assignments…

Engineering Education Research: Works in Progress -
Everyone
Not eligible for Certificate

Qualitative assessment of the learning outcomes of an international service learning project in Civil Engineering

Join faculty, post-docs, and graduate students in discussions about their engineering education research endeavors at…

Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM): Projects at U-M, 2013-2014 -
Everyone
Not eligible for Certificate

This session will give participants an overview of the projects undertaken by the 2013 and 2014 Provost's Learning Analytics Fellows.  Presentations will include:

Chemistry Placement at the University of Michigan: Burdening At-Risk…

Engineering Education Research: Works in Progress -
Everyone
Not eligible for Certificate

Evaluating the influence of pre- and post-class online modules on learning and retention

Join faculty, post-docs, and graduate students in discussions about their engineering education research endeavors at various stages along the way.…

Next Steps With IT -
Graduate Students
Requirement B2, Instructional Technology
This is a hands-on session showcasing 4 technologies (Piazza, M+Box, Google Drive, and blogging) that GSIs might use in their classrooms. We'll start off with mini-intros/pitches for each of the technologies. Next, we'll have two segments…
Teaching With Digital Collections in the Humanities -
Everyone
Requirement B2, Instructional Technology

Through their digital collections, the U-M libraries put giant caches of texts, images, music, and more at your fingertips. As an instructor, how can you best take advantage of these rich resources? Focusing on courses in the…

Engineering Education Research: Works in Progress -
Everyone
Not eligible for Certificate

An analysis of students' use of design ethnography techniques during capstone design

Join faculty, post-docs, and graduate students in discussions about their engineering education research endeavors at various stages along the way.…

Emerging Tech: Lesson Builder - Organize Your CTools Site -
Faculty
Not eligible for Certificate

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 four highlighted tools, Piazza, Socrative, Jing, and CTools…

Student Persistence, Performance, and Disciplinary Pathways: The Effects of Race, Class, Gender, Institution, and Discipline -
Dr. Matt Ohland leads the MIDFIELD project, a multi-institution research study involving a dataset that includes academic records of more than 200,000 engineering undergraduate students and more than 800,000 non-engineering students. Through…
Eighth Annual Research and Scholarship in Engineering Education Poster Session -
Everyone
Faculty and students across the university are engaged in scholarly work in the field of engineering education. This poster session, held over lunch, will feature the work of faculty, staff, and students from engineering, education, physics,…