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| Instructional Technology January Lunch: Getting Started with Online Collaboration Tools |
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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… |
| What's It Like to Work at a Liberal Arts College? |
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Graduate Students Not eligible for Certificate |
Interested in teaching at a liberal arts college? A faculty panel from liberal arts colleges will discuss job search strategies and faculty worklife. In addition, participants will learn about the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships at Oberlin and… |
| Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM) - High Return on Faculty Investment: Addressing Diverse Student Needs in Large Lectures Through Screencasting |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Joanna Mirecki Millunchick, U-M Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, will discuss her learning analytics research on screencasting in her materials science class, MSE 220. Because the course draws students with widely varying degrees… |
| Perspectives on Teaching: A Faculty Panel |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
Featuring Ella Atkins, Lola Eniola-Adefeso, Jerome Lynch, and Edwin Olsen This session will allow participants the opportunity to discuss teaching concerns with a panel of engineering faculty. Likely topics… |
| Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM) - Degree Compass: A Course Recommendation System |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
At this session, Provost Tristan Denley, Austin Peay State University, will discuss "Degree Compass," which uses predictive analytics techniques --based on grades and enrollment data-- to make individualized course recommendations for students… |
| Winter Graduate Student Teacher Orientation (WGSITO) |
Requirement A |
imported from FileMaker Pro on 6/4/2013 |
| EGSITO 2013 0107 EGSITO |
Requirement A |
imported from FileMaker Pro on 6/19/2013 |
| Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM): Lessons Learned from Course-Level Analytics in Psychology and the Bridge Program |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
For the past year or so, Bill Gehring (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Psychology) has used questionnaires in several large-enrollment classes -- Introduction to Cognitive Psychology, the Summer Bridge Program, Introductory Psychology -- to… |
| CRLT in Engineering: Flipping the engineering classroom: Opportunities and challenges |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
This session will focus on how engineering faculty can engage students during class by moving traditional lecture content online. Participants will experience a “flipped classroom” by watching an online podcast prior to the session. Participants… |
| Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM): Next-Generation Analytics with the Learning Dashboard |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
In this session, Marsha Lovett will present on the Learning Dashboard, an analytics system that uses sophisticated cognitive and statistical models to capture students’ learning states from clickstream data and to provide inferences,… |
| Revising Your Teaching Philosophy |
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Graduate Students Not eligible for Certificate |
Now that you have a draft of your statement of teaching philosophy, how can you strengthen it and make it more effective? This workshop is a hands-on session in which you will review sample statements, discuss the revision process, and… |
| CRLT in Engineering: Creativity in the engineering curriculum: Three faculty examples |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
After a brief introduction covering definitions of and research on creativity in engineering, three engineering faculty will discuss how they incorporate opportunities for student creativity into their courses. Participants will reflect on ways… |
| 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 disabilities in the context of higher education. Following the performance of each vignette, participants… |
| Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM): Interactive Large-Scale Data Analyses and Visualization for Learning and Impact Flow Analysis |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Sponsored by the Provost's Task Force on Learning Analytics, the Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM) Seminar is a year-long speaker series. At this session, Dr. Krishna Madhavan, School of Engineering Education at Purdue University… |
| CRLT in Engineering: What Do I Do Now? Strategies for Handling Sticky Situations with Students |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
Student instructors face many teaching-related challenges that may be difficult to handle. This workshop will provide strategies for overcoming common challenges as well as an opportunity to discuss the not-so-common “sticky” situations. … |
| U-M Resources for Learning Analytics Projects: Grants and Fellows Program |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
This session will feature a discussion with Learning Analytics Task Force members about the Exploring Learning Analytics Grant ($30-$150K) request for proposals and the Winter 2013 Learning Analytics Fellows Program application. Please… |
| Getting Ready for an Academic Career (PFF) Conference |
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Graduate Students Not eligible for Certificate |
Planning a career in academe? This half-day conference is designed to help graduate students and postdoctoral scholars prepare for the transition to faculty jobs. The plenary and concurrent sessions will offer materials and strategies to learn… |
| CRLT in Engineering: Teaching Engineering Teamwork Across Cultures |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
This workshop focuses on issues and opportunities that arise when students from different national origins work together on engineering teams in classes and labs. It will include strategies that faculty can use to improve learning for all… |
| 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… |
| New Ways to Engage Students in Interdisciplinary Learning: Pedagogies of Translation |
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Everyone Requirement B2 |
This session explores various disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts for teaching the concept of translation. How can we make different modes of translation visible to students, both in theory and in practice? The session will include brief… |
| CRLT in Engineering: Did You Really Mean That? Improving Communication with Your Students |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
In this session, participants will discuss ways to enhance communication with students to make teaching more effective and beneficial. Topics include: diverse learning preferences, issues of miscommunication, and maintaining professional… |
| Six-Session Training for Multicultural Classroom Facilitation |
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Graduate Students Requirement B1 |
Co-sponsored by Rackham School of Graduate Studies, CRLT, and The Program on Intergroup Relations, this series of six three-hour workshops provides foundational knowledge and practice in using a variety of models of group facilitation and… |
| Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM): Multi-Dimensional Learning Analytics |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Sponsored by the Provost's Task Force on Learning Analytics, the Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM) Seminar is a year-long speaker series. At this session, Professor George Siemens, Athabasca University, will discuss how faculty… |
| Teaching with Google Apps |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
This session explores how instructors may leverage Google’s collaboration applications to improve teaching and learning in discussion and lab sections. Presenters will provide a brief overview of a variety of Google applications (e.g., Docs,… |
| 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 with… |
