| Event | Dates | Short Description |
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| Improving the Design Skills of Future Engineers |
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Faculty |
This faculty program will explore a framework for characterizing novice and more-informed student approaches to various phases of the design process. Participants will discuss student behavior patterns and explore suggested instructional… |
| Engaging Students in Learning: An Online Workshop |
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Graduate Students 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.… |
| Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM): Digital Badges and the Analysis of Learning & Educational Activity |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Digital badges are web-enabled tokens of learning and accomplishment. Unlike traditional grades, certificates, and transcripts, badges can include specific claims and detailed evidence in support of those claims. The Design Principles… |
| 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,… |
| Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM): Online Learning Resources in the Humanities and Engineering: Making and Measuring |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
This SLAM Seminar will focus on two U-M faculty projects involving the design and assessment of online learning resources. Christine Modey, Sweetland Center for Writing (LSA), will present on "The Revision Project," with the goal… |
| CRLT Players: (dis)Ability in the Classroom |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
In this session, the CRLT Players present a series of trigger vignettes designed to provoke conversation around a range of issues related to student disabilities in college classrooms. Following the performance of each vignette,… |
| Getting Started with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning |
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Everyone |
Engineering education research is a growing field, both nationally and at our own College. This panel will feature four engineering faculty: Robin Fowler, Brent Gillespie, Jamie Phillips, and Rasha Stino. They will explain their project goals,… |
| 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… |
| Six-Session Training for Multicultural Classroom Facilitation |
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Graduate Students Requirement B1 |
Co-facilitated by staff from CRLT and The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR), this six-week seminar allows participants to both learn about and practice a range of effective facilitation strategies for use in U-M's multicultural classrooms. We… |
| Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM): Massive Michigan: A First Look at the Analytics of UM's 2012-13 MOOC Courses |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
In this session, Stephanie Teasley, Steve Lonn, and Eric Koo (U-M USE Lab) will be presenting on their analysis of U-M's Coursera data. The Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM) Seminar series features both U-M faculty and… |
| What's Wrong? Navigating Concerns about Student Mental Health |
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Everyone Requirement B2 |
It can be difficult for instructors to know when a student is having a mental health problem and what steps can be taken to provide support. Angela Farrehi, Student Advocacy Manager from the Office of Student Affairs, will lead participants in… |
| 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? … |
| It's Time for Action - Part 2: Implementing Your Active Learning Plan (Advanced Practice Teaching), Session 4 |
Graduate Students |
This session offers an opportunity to practice active learning techniques by presenting a lesson to a small peer group. In advance, participants either review a short online podcast about active learning or attend Part 1… |
| It's Time for Action - Part 2: Implementing Your Active Learning Plan (Advanced Practice Teaching), Session 3 |
Graduate Students |
This session offers an opportunity to practice active learning techniques by presenting a lesson to a small peer group. In advance, participants either review a short online podcast about active learning or attend Part 1… |
| It's Time for Action - Part 2: Implementing Your Active Learning Plan (Advanced Practice Teaching), Session 1 |
Graduate Students |
This session offers an opportunity to practice active learning techniques by presenting a lesson to a small peer group. In advance, participants either review a short online podcast about active learning or attend Part 1… |
| It's Time for Action - Part 2: Implementing Your Active Learning Plan (Advanced Practice Teaching), Session 2 |
Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
This session offers an opportunity to practice active learning techniques by presenting a lesson to a small peer group. In advance, participants either review a short online podcast about active learning or attend Part 1… |
| Five Ways of Using Screencasting |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
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… |
| Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM): Teaching Evaluations: What You Think They Tell Us, What They Do Tell Us, and What They Don't Tell Us |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Mika LaVaque-Manty and David Cottrell, U-M Political Science, analyzed quantitative data from University of Michigan teaching evaluation questionnaires from 2005 to 2013 and report on some of their more significant findings, in particular with… |
| Preparing Future Faculty Conference: Getting Ready for an Academic Career Registration |
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Graduate Students |
This page refers to the September 2013 Preparing Future Faculty Conference. The event is in the past and registration is closed. You can find resources for the event here: http://www.crlt.umich.edu/programs/onedayPFF… |
| Seven (Simple) Strategies to Improve Your Teaching |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
Research has identified seven key principles that can guide effective teaching. At this session, participants will engage in activities to highlight the principles and identify ways to apply the strategies in their own courses. … |
| 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… |
| Leading Classroom 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 confront challenges in my classroom discussions? This seminar will provide participants… |
| It's Time for Action - Part 1: Generating an Active Learning Plan |
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Graduate Students Not eligible for Certificate |
Creating a plan to engage students in active learning is sometimes challenging. In this workshop, participants will learn about a variety of active learning techniques and then formulate a plan for implementing activities in their own courses or… |
| 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… |
| Engaging Students in Learning: An Online Workshop |
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Graduate Students 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.… |
