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| Promoting Effective Group Work: Forming and Evaluating Groups and Teams With Technology |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
Research clearly indicates that group work can produce more learning than students working on their own. As an instructor, how do you structure group work to make it most effective, particularly with large numbers of students? This workshop will… |
| Building Your Online Learning Community |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Remote students sometimes report feelings of isolation and lack of motivation, and have more difficulty staying on schedule with their work. Intentionally building a sense of community in your remote course can help relieve these feelings. In… |
| Teaching in Tumultuous Times: Making Choices About How to Address the World Beyond Your Classroom [GSIs & Postdocs Only] *NEW SESSION* |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
Racist fliers, hateful graffiti, mass shootings, emails threatening violence: Students often report feeling alienated or confused when instructors in their courses do not acknowledge such unsettling events going on in the world outside the… |
| Teaching in Tumultuous Times: Making Choices About How to Address the World Beyond Your Classroom (Inclusive Teaching @ Michigan Series) |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
Racist fliers, hateful graffiti, hurricanes, mass shootings, emails threatening violence: Students often report feeling alienated or confused when instructors in their courses do not acknowledge such unsettling events going on in the world… |
| Teaching in Tumultuous Times: Making Choices About How to Address the World Beyond Your Classroom (ENCORE SESSION) |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
Racist fliers, hateful graffiti, hurricanes, mass shootings, emails threatening violence: Students often report feeling alienated or confused when instructors in their courses do not acknowledge such unsettling events going on in the world… |
| Engineering Education Research: Works in Progress |
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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… |
| SLAM: Two Years of Michigan MOOCs: What Analytics Tell us About Learning in these Environments |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Presenters: Christopher Brooks and Stephanie Teasley, School of Information, U-M For more information about learning analytics at U-M and to view videos and slides from past SLAM presentations, click here.
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| SLAM: The Texas Vision: A Cross-institutional Strategy for Access, Affordability, and Student Success |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Presenter Steven Mintz, Executive Director, Institute for Transformational Learning at University of Texas System. For more information about learning analytics at U-M and to view videos and slides from past SLAM presentations, click… |
| Time Management for Busy People |
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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.… |
| REPEAT SESSION: Inclusive Teaching @ Michigan Series - Activities for Leveraging Student Diversity Part 1 |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A REPEAT OF THE SESSION OFFERED ON TUES, MAY 10. These workshops are grounded in research showing that engaging with diverse peers can enhance student learning in the college classroom. How can instructors leverage student… |
| REPEAT SESSION: Inclusive Teaching @ Michigan Series - Student Engagement with Each Other: Creating an Inclusive Classroom (IGR) |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A REPEAT OF THE SESSION OFFERED ON MONDAY, MAY 16. Join the Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR) for a session focused on engaging students to talk with each other as one mode for creating inclusive classrooms. While… |
| 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… |
| Promoting Effective Group Work: Forming and Evaluating Groups and Teams With Technology (Online Webinar) |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
Please click here to register. Research clearly indicates that group work can produce more learning than students working on their own. As an instructor, how do you structure group work to make it most effective, particularly with large… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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 … |
| 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… |
| Perry Samson, UM Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, and the LectureTools Team |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Perry Samson (UM Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences) and the LectureTools Team. Damn these data! The More I Know About Student Effort, the Less I Understand Student Outcomes.
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| Pedagogies for Understanding Race |
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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… |
| Maximizing Student Learning During Office Hours |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
Participants will discuss ways to make office hours most beneficial to students and identify strategies for dealing with common challenges. Using role-play and case studies, participants will brainstorm how to teach effectively during office… |
