Tuesday, 04 Oct 2016
CIRTL Online Workshop: Writing Effective Multiple-Choice Exam Questions
Students who write about what they learn achieve deep conceptual understanding, develop a disciplinary command, and build greater confidence in their knowledge. We'll look at two articles discussing how writing assignments can be designed and applied to promote effective learning in the STEM classroom. University of Colorado Boulder's Adam J. Blanford will be the discussant.
Workshop: Creative Tips & Tricks with Top Hat, ISU's Interactive Teaching & Learning Platform
A representative from Top Hat, ISU's new interactive teaching and learning platform, will discuss the advanced functionalities of the tool and address faculty's questions and concerns.
Wednesday, 05 Oct 2016
Seminar: Flipping Your Classroom using Blackboard Tools
Wade Fields, Customer Success Advocate, Blackboard Inc., will walk you through instructional frameworks which you can use to build an interactive, asynchronous, outside-of-class experience, followed by peer learning exercises that culminate with a face-to-face sessions. During this session the instructor will address specific gaps in knowledge with learners individually and/or in small groups. Join us to see how Blackboard's tools can help fl
Seminar: Blackboard's Approach to Designing a New Learning Management System
Wade Fields, Customer Success Advocate, Blackboard Inc., will walk through the research methods used in developing the new Blackboard learning management system using the Ultra framework. This will include a demo of the new Learn Ultra classroom.
Thursday, 06 Oct 2016
Workshop: Creative Tips & Tricks with Top Hat, ISU's Interactive Teaching & Learning Platform
A representative from Top Hat, ISU's new interactive teaching and learning platform, will discuss the advanced functionalities of the tool and address faculty's questions and concerns.
Workshop: Help Your Students Become Skilled Online Researchers
Do your students have trouble using research tools beyond Google? In this 30-minute workshop, Susan Vega-Garcia, Associate Professor, Parks Library, will help you discover how to introduce students to the actual research tools professionals in your field use, how researchers can use the new library Guides for research, and how you can embed a virtual librarian in your course to help students learn how to become skilled online researchers.Â
POSTPONED: Teaching & Learning Circle: Early Undergraduate Research in your Classroom
Due to low enrollment we are postponing this series & intend to offer in spring 2017
Friday, 07 Oct 2016
Workshop Series: Flipping Your Classroom
This 4-part series offers an opportunity to learn about the flipping your classroom and how to incorporate this approach into a course. A flipped classroom is an instructional strategy that reverses the traditional educational arrangement by delivering instructional content, often online, outside of the classroom. This approach moves activities, including those traditionally considered homework, into the face-to-face classroom.
Thursday, 20 Oct 2016
Award-Winning Faculty Series: How to Foster Safe Spaces for Diversity and Inclusion
What do we mean by inclusion? What do we mean by diversity? As teachers, our answers to these questions are vital not only for our own teaching philosophy but also for the culture we are creating in our classrooms, which can perpetuate into workplaces after graduation.
CIRTL Online Webinar: Increasing Student Motivation through Instructional Practices
This session will address two types of instructional practices for increasing student motivation. The first type involves fostering students' "growth mindsets"; that is, helping them to think about intelligence and ability as something that can be improved over time with effort. The second type aims to enhance the perceived utility or relevance of course content.
Friday, 21 Oct 2016
Seminar: Peer Evaluations using ThinkSpace
ThinkSpace Learning Community is hosting a special session on Peer Evaluations using ThinkSpace where your most pressing questions about designing and managing your peer evaluations will be answered. Are you new to TBL and looking for an easy way to do peer evaluations? Have you been wondering which peer evaluation method to use - evaluation by categories or by balance points (Michaelsen method)?
Wednesday, 26 Oct 2016
Award-Winning Faculty Series: Using Case-Based Learning in your Classroom Harvard's "Winter Oak"
In this interactive session, Brad Shrader, Morrill Professor in Management, will model case-based learning by teaching a case (Harvard University's "Winter Oak"). This is the story of a young boy and his teacher as she comes to understand another way of learning and thinking. CELT has purchased copies of this case for participants, who will be asked to review the 5-6 page case before the session.
Thursday, 27 Oct 2016
Workshop: Jumpstart Learning in Your Course with Streaming Videos
Have you been reserving the same DVD for your course year after year? In this 30-minute workshop, Susan Vega-Garcia, Associate Professor, Parks Library, will help you discover hundreds of licensed streaming videos freely available through library subscriptions and how to embed them in your course to support student learning.