Event Dates Short Description
Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Seminar
Requirement B1

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Enriching Scholarship: Teaching with Tablets: How Do They Enhance Lectures in Engineering? -
Everyone

The proliferation of tablet devices provides new options for faculty to enhance the delivery of lectures. In this session, a panel of faculty from the College of Engineering will demonstrate how they are using…

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

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…

Enriching Scholarship: Creative Uses of Technology to Assess Student Learning -
Everyone
Requirement B2, Instructional Technology

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…

Enriching Scholarship: How to Gamify Your Course: Some Reasons For and Ways To Do It -
Everyone
Requirement B2

How can we, as instructors, motivate students and make disciplinary learning more fun?  Gamification in teaching is the use of game design techniques to engage, motivate, and deepen the learning of students.…

Enriching Scholarship: CTools + Google -
Everyone
Requirement B2, Instructional Technology

This session will demonstrate some of the best practices for using Google Apps with CTools for teaching and learning. We will discuss example uses for a variety of apps in teaching. We will also explore how to…

Enriching Scholarship: Teaching with Technology: UM Faculty Innovations -
Everyone
Not eligible for Certificate

A panel of UM faculty will share a variety of technology innovations used in their 2012-2013 courses. Presentations will include examples of instructional technology created for the class and/or samples of student work. A substantial portion of…

Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM) - GradeCraft: Exploring Online Use Data to Uncover Student Engagement -
Everyone
Not eligible for Certificate

At this session, Mika LaVaque-Manty, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, and Barry Fishman, Associate Professor of Education and of Information, will discuss, "GradeCraft: Exploring online use data to uncover student…

Pedagogy for the Engineering Classroom -
Everyone
Requirement B2

Guest speaker Michael Prince, Bucknell University

  • Starting with the end in mind: Using instructional objectives to improve teaching & learning
  • A practical introduction to active…
Instructional Technology April Lunch: Getting Started with Online Collaboration Tools -
Faculty
Not eligible for Certificate

Online collaboration tools (OCTs), such as Google Apps, are revolutionizing workplace productivity and teamwork. They also provide tremendous opportunities to enhance teaching, learning, and course management. These hands-on seminars will allow…

Engineering Education Research Day -
Everyone
Not eligible for Certificate

Interest in engineering education research is growing at U-M, and this day-long program will include multiple opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to learn more about the field and explore possible collaborations. Current plans include…

What's It Like to Pursue an Alternative Academic Career? - Humanities, Arts and Social Science -
Graduate Students
Not eligible for Certificate

Interested in exploring career paths beyond the professoriate? This panel will feature scholars from a variety of backgrounds who have put their doctoral-level training to use in the academy in administrative, research or staff careers, many of…

3/15/13 Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM) - OMG! The Future of Teaching -
Everyone
Not eligible for Certificate

Vince Kellen is the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Planning, Analytics and Technologies at the University of Kentucky. His presentation will focus on personalized learning and high-speed analytics.

Location: Great Lakes Room, 4th floor…

What's It Like to Pursue an Alternative Academic Career? - Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) -
Graduate Students
Not eligible for Certificate

Interested in exploring career paths beyond the professoriate? This panel will feature scholars from a variety of backgrounds who have put their doctoral-level training to use in the academy in administrative, research or staff careers, many of…

CRLT Players: Negotiating Race in Humanities Classrooms -
Graduate Students
Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching

Using theatre as a means to provoke dialogue, this session will examine how questions of social identity and difference enter Humanities and Social Science classrooms in two major ways: through the course material, and through the embodied…

7 into 15: A CRLT Players Theater Performance - GSI session -
Graduate Students
Not eligible for Certificate

 

Using theatre as a means to provoke dialogue, this session will examine how questions of social identity and difference enter Humanities and Social Science classrooms in two major ways: through the course material, and through the…

7 into 15: A CRLT Players Theater Performance - faculty session -
Faculty
Not eligible for Certificate

This session begins with an interactive performance of seven plays in fifteen minutes that irreverently explore the complexities and challenges of being a graduate student in math (a discipline similar in many ways to engineering). These plays…

Teaching Collaborative Writing - Co-sponsored by Sweetland Writing Center -
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…

PowerPoint Supported by Science of Learning -
Everyone
Requirement B2, Instructional Technology

 

Presentation slides serve many purposes in the classroom. They can provide an organizing platform for a lecture, a study guide for students after class, and a place for students to take notes during class.  This session,…

Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM) - Learning Analytics Approaches to the Development of Online Learning Resources in Chemistry and Statistics -
Everyone
Not eligible for Certificate

This session's topic is "Learning Analytics Approaches to the Development of Online Learning Resources in Chemistry and Statistics," and presenters include Nancy Kerner (Chemistry), Brenda Gunderson (Statistics) and Ginger Shultz (Organic…

Time Management for Busy People -
Graduate Students
Not eligible for Certificate

Presented by Mark Moldwin, This workshop will describe several useful strategies that graduate students may implement to be more productive writers, researchers, & scholars. Guaranteed to change your life for the better or your money back.…

Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM) - Learning Analytics, Learning Metrics, and Learning Science -
Everyone
Not eligible for Certificate

David Niemi, Vice President of Measurement and Evaluation, Kaplan, Inc., will present on learning analytics at Kaplan.

Sound learning analytics based on valid metrics give us new leverages to study and improve…

Leading 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 confront challenges in my classroom discussions? This seminar will provide participants with…

Are They “Getting It”? Low-Stakes Ways to Assess Student Learning -
Graduate Students
Requirement B2

Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are quick and useful ways to gather information on what, how much, and how well students learn. Instructors can use the data to create more effective learning environments. Participants in this session will…

Pedagogies for Understanding Race -
Everyone
Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching

Pedagogies for Understanding Race

This session provides ideas and examples for enhancing pedagogy and engaging students effectively when teaching courses with a focus on race.    The session will include brief presentations from…