Monday, 01 Feb 2021
Discuss Published Education Research in Your Discipline (DBER Journal Club) February
How do students learn best in your discipline? Where can you publish the way you solved instructional problems? You are invited to share and discuss DBER journal articles, seek feedback as you begin designing your own educational research projects, and form collaborations with participants from other disciplines.
Tuesday, 02 Feb 2021
Award-Winning Seminar Series: Mentoring graduate students (Kevin Schalinske)
How do you give your mentees the freedom to fail but give them the structure they need to excel? How do you walk the line between being an authority figure in their lives but also a future colleague and collaborator? How do you frame difficult conversations so they become valuable learning experiences?
Wednesday, 03 Feb 2021
Webinar, Choose your instructional tool adventure (Communication)
CELT's Choose Your Instructional Tool Adventure focuses on various instructional strategies found on the CELT website and demonstrates practical ways to incorporate these tools in a Canvas course. Instructional support staff will facilitate each 30-minute byte. These 30-minutes builds on concepts covered in the Canvas Mini-Bytes training videos on the CELT instructional strategies pages.
Friday, 05 Feb 2021
Web talk, Team-Based Learning: Group Work that Works
Team-Based Learning (TBL) is a learning strategy in which most of the work of the class is done in structured, permanent learning teams. Like other flipped-classroom methods (though TBL was invented long before the term "flipped classroom), the students' first exposure to course content is outside of class, as students read the assigned material and are tested on their preparation, individually and as a team.
Wednesday, 10 Feb 2021
Webinar, Creative and Mindful Activities for Your Classroom (And Your Life)
In this time of virtual meetings and classes, some analog mindful strategies can go a long way. Join Jordan Brooks, Director of Equity, Inclusion, and Multicultural Student Success in the College of Design, for some creative exercises you can use to decompress and recenter.
Webinar, Choose your instructional tool adventure (Engagement)
CELT's Choose Your Instructional Tool Adventure focuses on various instructional strategies found on the CELT website and demonstrates practical ways to incorporate these tools in a Canvas course. Instructional support staff will facilitate each 30-minute byte. These 30-minutes builds on concepts covered in the Canvas Mini-Bytes training videos on the CELT instructional strategies pages.
Friday, 12 Feb 2021
Panel, Exploring the benefits and shortcomings of TurnItIn (ISU Online Learning Community)
In fall 2020, CELT collaborated with Online Testing Centers (OTC) to collect ISU's instructors' opinions about TurnItIn, a tool that checks student submissions for plagiarism in Canvas. We received 89 responses that described TurnItIn usage across different disciplines, delivery modes, and course sizes. Panelists will share the benefits and shortcomings of TurnItIn to uphold academic integrity in small/large enrollment courses delivered...
Web talk, Teaching Critical Thinking and Information Literacy in Introductory STEM Courses
In this happy hour, we will consider the current research and practical implications surrounding undergraduate critical thinking skills. We will interrogate various solutions toward highly-trained graduates to evaluate and synthesize information, and collaborate to create solutions that are well-reasoned, innovative and interdisciplinary.
Tuesday, 16 Feb 2021
Webinar, Best practices for engaging students online
Explore how-to initiate effective and meaningful faculty-to-student interactions while helping students engage in the construction of their learning. Brainstorm how to maintain and inspire student engagement for all learning environments (in-person, hybrid/blended, online).
Wednesday, 17 Feb 2021
Webinar, What are we noticing? (Christa Jackson)
Join Christa Jackson, Associate Professor, School of Education, as she shares how she prepares preservice mathematics education teachers in becoming cognizant of their biases through recognizing what they attend to and how they relate classroom events to the broader principles of teaching and learning.
Webinar, What are we noticing? (Christa Jackson)
Join Christa Jackson, Associate Professor, School of Education, as she shares how she prepares preservice mathematics education teachers in becoming cognizant of their biases through recognizing what they attend to and how they relate classroom events to the broader principles of teaching and learning.
Webinar, Choose your instructional tool adventure (Web conferencing: polling and breakout rooms)
CELT's Choose Your Instructional Tool Adventure focuses on various instructional strategies found on the CELT website and demonstrates practical ways to incorporate these tools in a Canvas course. Instructional support staff will facilitate each 30-minute byte. These 30-minutes builds on concepts covered in the Canvas Mini-Bytes training videos on the CELT instructional strategies pages.
Thursday, 18 Feb 2021
Online Workshop Series: Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR)
APPQMR (Applying the Quality Matters Rubric) is a virtual offering of the Quality Matters flagship workshop on the underlying principles of the Quality Matters rubric, an instrument for assessing the quality of online courses. Learn how to use the QM rubric as you apply it to a demo online course and recommend practical course improvements.
Web talk, Structural racism, institutional transformation, and diversifying the STEM faculty (SABER)
The small number of Black, Latinx/a/o, and Native American faculty in STEM has been increasingly identified as cause for concern, and multiple interventions have been proposed and implemented to increase representation. Decades of research suggest that interventions must go beyond focusing on "fixing" minoritized scientists, instead turning our attention to how campuses and STEM disciplines perpetuate racism and inequality.
Webinar, Team-Based Learning (TBL) Teaching and Learning Community
This topic-based teaching and learning community meets throughout the academic year. We work as teams to optimize application exercises, readiness assurance tests, peer evaluation, and other aspects of course design, and also invite speakers to facilitate discussions of TBL theory, research and classroom application.
Friday, 19 Feb 2021
Award-Winning Seminar Series: Inspiring Disciplinary Curiosity Using Writing Assignments (Amanda Fales-Williams)
Are you looking for ways to inspire curiosity and foster self-motivated learning in freshman and sophomores? Do you wish there was a way for excited, engaged seniors who have "figured it out" to reflect on their learning and share their journey in meaningful ways with the next wave?
Web talk, Transforming a research project into a research proposal
In this happy hour, Beth Beason Abmayr, Teaching Professor, Laboratory Coordinator & Safety Training Instructor (Rice University) will share how to transform a research project to a research proposal.
Tuesday, 23 Feb 2021
Webinar, Best Practices for Using OER in Canvas: Applying the Quality Matters Rubric
In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore how to apply the Quality Matters rubric to evaluate the use of free digital materials, like OER, in the classroom.
Wednesday, 24 Feb 2021
Webinar, CELT Teaching Talks: Hosting a Virtual Graduate Student Symposium
Brian Hornbuckle (Professor, Agronomy) will describe how the Environmental Science Symposium, a collection of talks and a graduate student poster session, was held online in Spring 2020. In addition, he will describe the strategy used in this seminar course (required for all graduate students in environmental science) to meet the learning outcomes, particularly community building.
Webinar, Choose your instructional tool adventure (Web conferencing: sharing content)
CELT's Choose Your Instructional Tool Adventure focuses on various instructional strategies found on the CELT website and demonstrates practical ways to incorporate these tools in a Canvas course. Instructional support staff will facilitate each 30-minute byte. These 30-minutes builds on concepts covered in the Canvas Mini-Bytes training videos on the CELT instructional strategies pages.
Friday, 26 Feb 2021
Web talk, Increasing a sense of belonging and science literacy through CUREs
Course Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) are a novel form of classroom-based courses that offer students hands-on experience doing original research and that offer faculty the opportunity to generate new information within their discipline.