If you missed the 2024 Plater-Moore Conference on Teaching and Learning on April 5, you can now watch the keynote by national expert Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade on Equality and Equity and Community Responsive Education. You can also access many of the concurrent session presentations on various topics including inclusive and equitable teaching, effective use of instructional technology, engaged learning practices, faculty and graduate student development, assessment and evaluation, etc.
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Making Sense of Your Spring Student Course Evaluations
Reviewing your course evaluations can be an emotional process. Join this webinar to receive support and guidance for making sense of your spring student evaluations - tips for coding your data, strategies for determining themes and identifying "outlier" comments, and steps for creating a plan for responding in the spirit of continuous improvement and professional growth. Bring your student evaluations!
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Summer Reading Group: Equality or Equity by Jeff Duncan-Andrade
Following the keynote address at the 2024 Plater-Moore Conference on Teaching and Learning, the Center for Teaching and Learning will host an online summer reading group of Jeff Duncan-Andrade’s acclaimed book Equality or Equity: Toward a Model of Community-Responsive Education. The reading group will meet virtually from 10 to 11 a.m. ET on four dates: June 11 and 25 and July 9 and 23.
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King, Tierney (Host). (2024, Mar 20). Class Adjourned: The Importance of Ending Well [Audio podcast episode]. In Faculty Focus Live, Faculty Focus.
We think much about how to start a class well, but tend to think less about how to end it well, though it is just as important. As the semester comes to a close, think about how you’d like to end your class. Take a moment to listen to this podcast or read its transcript offering reflections and celebrations as alternatives to having exams or projects be the students’ final memories of the class.
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Nineteen faculty members from seven schools at IUPUI have received the 2024 Curriculum Enhancement Grant awards. These awards will support 2,636 students annually as the faculty explore, document, and disseminate innovative, research-based teaching and learning practices to improve student learning outcomes and experiences.
Learn more about the 2024 CEG Awards
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Join us at the 2024 Digital Gardener Summit where we will explore generative AI and digital literacy, offering educational insights, networking opportunities, and hands-on workshops. Choose from two Summit locations: IU Bloomington on May 9 or IU Indianapolis on May 10. Register now.
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CTL Workshops and Webinars
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Monday, May 6 | 1 - 2:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom Register » Organizer(s): Randy Newbrough and Presenter(s): The Polis Center and the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
This webinar introduces powerful desktop and online mapping and spatial analysis tools, data, and other related resources that can support higher education teaching and research activities. These resources are applicable to a wide range of disciplines including health, public safety, public policy, economics, informatics, and more.
One of the highlights of the webinar is SAVI, an online collection of free interactive mapping and analysis tools, downloadable databases, reports, and data literacy workshops. SAVI offers access to thousands of data variables that define the socio-economic characteristics of Indiana in finite detail covering multiple decades. Data themes include demographic trends, social determinants of health, social services, crime, education, and more. Examples of how SAVI resources have already been applied to support IU research and teaching will be shared.
The webinar also introduces ArcGIS Online, a tool that can be used to create customized, interactive maps and dashboards that can enhance course content and support research. Workshop facilitators will also provide information about the wide variety of available Indiana demographic and environmental geospatial data resources available to faculty and students.
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Thursday, May 9 | 12 noon - 1 p.m. | Online - Zoom Register » Organizer(s): Faculty Affairs and Professional Development and Presenter(s): Steven Graunke
Whether you plan to conduct a quantitative research study or just want to be a more critical consumer of medical education research, a basic understanding of quantitative research is an important skill. This session provides a practical introduction to quantitative research, including learning where faculty can receive statistical support and how to access statistical programs to analyze data. Participants will also become more familiar with Indiana University School of Medicine’s data and survey vetting committee.
This event aligns with the following IUSM Academy of Teaching Scholars program competencies: Assessment Methods and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (A)
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The Teach, Play, Learn Conference, IU’s academic conference on game-based teaching and learning, is accepting proposals for presentations on real-life usage, empirical studies, and/or theoretical discussions of game-based teaching and learning. For more information and to submit a proposal.
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Tamara Tweel, Senior Program Director at the Teagle Foundation specializing in civic initiatives, will give a talk on the role humanities plays in preserving democracy, encouraging a sense of belonging (both nationally and on college campuses), and enhancing civic mindedness.
Register and learn more.
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The Institute for Engaged Learning will be offering the summer institute for three half-days June- 4, 5, and 6. HIPs Done Well is a dynamic professional development opportunity designed for faculty to enrich courses that include at least one high-impact practice. Please contact
Jerry Daday,
Lisa Angermeier, and/or
Rachel Swinford if you have any questions or would like additional information.
Register by Friday, May 10.
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Faculty Affairs and Professional Development has published more than
100 programs and events for the coming academic year. Plan now to attend sessions that will help you become a better teacher, clinician, leader, or researcher.
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