Monday, 05 Jan 2015
Seminar: Project LEA/RN 2-day Workshop (Registration required - space is limited)
2-day Workshop (Registration required - space is limited to the 1st 20 educators) Are your students doing the kind of thinking required by professionals? Are your clients processing the information needed to solve complex problems in today's world? Do you even know what your students or clients are thinking?
Tuesday, 06 Jan 2015
Seminar: Project LEA/RN 2-day Workshop (Registration required - space is limited)
2-day Workshop (Registration required - space is limited to the 1st 20 educators) Are your students doing the kind of thinking required by professionals? Are your clients processing the information needed to solve complex problems in today's world? Do you even know what your students or clients are thinking?
Webinar: Handheld Devices in Class - Distractors or Aids? (CIRTL Network)
Most instructors: (1) Ban technology in class, (2) Use devices for specific purposes, such as "clickers" for real-time polling, or (3) Leave the challenges of digital self-regulation to students who bring their own device(s) to class. Since 2001, I've been researching the cognitive and educational psychology of learning with digital technology.
Friday, 09 Jan 2015
Spring Semester Teaching Assistant Seminar
All TAs who are new to the ISU classroom, or who have received a teaching assignment different from what they have done before, are strongly encouraged to attend this seminar. Discussion will focus on topics such as classroom management, effective grading, and preparing for the first day of class. Ideas for specific types of teaching, time management, and working with students will also be shared.
Tuesday, 13 Jan 2015
Webinar: Hybrid/Flipped Teaching With In-Class Design and Build Activities (CIRTL Network)
In this session, Dr. Peshkin will describe his successful implementation of active learning in his course teaching electronics (for non-EE engineers) using a portable "lab-in-a-backpack" workbench and real prototyping, not simulation. During most of class the students work hands-on, designing, building and debugging their circuits while he circulates and advises. Class includes mini-lectures, and lessons are made available online.
Tuesday, 20 Jan 2015
Webinar: Developing Active Learning Activities for Your STEM Course (CIRTL Network)
Instructors of large enrollment classes will learn about ways in which to implement active learning in the lecture hall. The process of engaging students from the first class meeting will be outlined, with particular emphasis on strategies to help students to get to know one another and techniques through which the faculty can learn names in the anonymous "sea" of students.
Roundtable: Blended Learning Brown-Bag: Audio/Video Solutions for Teaching and Learning at Iowa State
Information Technology Services is planning to invest significant resources in an audio/video hosting solution for Iowa State University in the very near future. If you an instructor currently using audio, video, and other rich media in your teaching and learning environment or wanting your students to upload rich media assignments this session is for you.
Thursday, 22 Jan 2015
Award-Winning Faculty Series: Many Modes of Effective Teaching: Engaging Students with Traditional Lecture
Teaching award winning chemistry professor Pat Thiel draws students to her class from majors as diverse as sociology and agronomy. Why are these students so excited about quantum mechanics? Learn how to engage students, connect their evolving understandings to the basic concepts hiding under complex equations, and build personal connections even in classes with increasing enrollment pressure.
Tuesday, 27 Jan 2015
Webinar: Scientific Writing in STEM Classes as a Cognitive Apprenticeship (CIRTL Network)
Scientists learn how to write scientifically, but how do you teach students to do this? In contrast to lab techniques, where there is often an apprenticeship aspect in which students learn by watching others and then practicing, there isn't much to watch while a scientist writes. This needs to be a cognitive apprenticeship instead of a physical one.
Thursday, 29 Jan 2015
Teaching and Learning Circle: The research-based flipped classroom and team-based learning
TBL is an increasingly-popular form of flipped-classroom where small-group learning that can be implemented effectively in small or large classes. Facilitator: Holly Bender, CELT Associate Director