Monday, 05 Oct 2015
Live Webinar: Designing Learning Spaces with Learning Theory in Mind
Join Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, as they moderate this webinar with Scott McDonald. From K-12 schools to institutions of higher education, there is an increasing emphasis and investment in developing spaces to support student learning.
Meeting: Service-Learning Faculty Learning Community
Are you interested in developing, or enhancing, a service-learning component within your course? You are invited to join this dynamic, interdisciplinary group as we walk-through the process of integrating service-learning into the curriculum. These interactive sessions will include topical discussions, readings, and sharing of best practices.
Tuesday, 06 Oct 2015
Seminar: Using Clickers for Assessments and Exercises in a TBL Classroom
Learn how to engage students using clickers (via TurningPoint) for Readiness Assessment Tests (individual (iRAT) and team (tRAT)) and Team-Based Learning application exercises -- Instead of pen/paper or bubble sheets. Our presenter, Meghan Gillette, Lecturer, HDFS will also describe how to efficiently integrate and distribute the resulting grades in Blackboard Learn for each individual and team.
Teaching and Learning Circle: Engaging Students - How service-learning makes a difference
Service-learning provides an opportunity for students to engage with course content at a deeper, and more meaningful level. In this three-part series, we will read and discuss pertinent research for planning, implementing and assessing service-learning curriculum. Topics to explore include: developing community partnerships, designing a course component, and assessing the effectiveness of the service-learning component in your course.
Thursday, 08 Oct 2015
Live Webinar: 10 Tips for Creating Accessible Online Course Content
In our media-centric society, the desire and need for online learning is at an all-time high. However, as more academic content goes online, the industry is running into a stumbling block as they struggle to make their online courses accessible. With recent lawsuits in higher education and updates to Section 508 on the horizon, it is more important than ever that online learning content be made accessible to students with disabilities.
Tuesday, 13 Oct 2015
Seminar: Gameful Design
This session will explore what it means to "gamefully design" a course. Gameful design goes beyond badges, points, and leaderboards to include more complex elements that promote deeper engagement. These elements include autonomy, agency, narrative, and more. Gameful design elements will be examined within several learning contexts, such as large lectures, small courses, and online courses.
Wednesday, 14 Oct 2015
Panel: When a Student Makes the Choice to Cheat
Students may make a personal decision to engage in a dishonest act, but there are ways in which faculty and instructors can design assignments to discourage plagiarism and other academic misconduct. This panel will discuss how each member of the Iowa State community has an opportunity to play an important role in promoting and preserving integrity on campus.
Live Webinar: Moving Beyond Posting Only a Syllabus Online - QM Success Stories
Hear how colleagues engage faculty in continuous improvement. Maria Fernandez and Jeff Suarez-Grant, Instructional Designers, California State University - Los Angeles, will show you how to sneak quality assurance into faculty development and help instructors design quality courses even before deciding to teach online.
Monday, 19 Oct 2015
Panel: An Overview of Universal Design for Learning in Higher Ed (Part 1)
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an approach to curriculum and teaching that provides equal opportunities for learning to all students. Although UDL is not a new concept, it has received a lot of press recently. In part this is because larger numbers of people with disabilities are attending higher education institutions and there is a greater awareness of the need to make web resources, courses, services...
Wednesday, 21 Oct 2015
Live Webinar: Adaptive Learning and Courseware
Dr. Cristi Ford will share key strategies and a rapid prototype model for increasing high quality scalable innovations based on experiences at University of Maryland University College. Ford is the Assistant Vice Provost for Learning Innovation Initiatives in the UMCC's Center (UMCC) for Innovation in Learning and Student Success.
Thursday, 22 Oct 2015
Live Webinar: Understanding Closed Captioning Standards and Guidelines
With recent legal action concerning accessibility, many organizations are shifting their discussions from whether they need to caption to how they will caption and what defines high quality captioning.
Webinar: Teaching Ethics - A Key Role for Educators
*event is from 1-2pm* To many educators, few teaching subjects are as important as ethics. Whether taught in separate courses or embedded into study of many subjects, ethics go to the goal of producing decent human beings and good citizens, not just those who have specific skill sets.
Friday, 23 Oct 2015
Award-Winning Faculty Series: Challenging Coursework, Engaged Freshmen
Award-winning immunology teacher, Gayle Brown, engages large classes (120+) of freshmen veterinary students. Can you imagine students cheering when you introduce the "disease of the day"? Learn how to blend challenging and basic scientific concepts with improvements based on student feedback.
Tuesday, 27 Oct 2015
Workshop: Engaging Persons with Disabilities - Research Efforts and Opportunities (Part 2)
Persons with disabilities are severely underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields of study. This group consists of an entire population of lifelong problem solvers. Engaging them in the STEM educational pipeline and the STEM workforce can be a very rewarding endeavor. Engagement can occur via the research enterprise as well as through outreach and other educational programs.
Friday, 30 Oct 2015
Seminar: Changing learning by using student ideas to drive instruction
Identifying what students don't understand when they are learning biology can help improve student learning experiences in the classroom. Concept assessments, due to their rigorous development process, can be useful in diagnosing student difficulties and leveraging change.