Monday, 18 Feb 2019
Workshop, Personalized Learning in Canvas (Canvas Track 2)
Personalized learning is the type of instruction that targets individual student's needs. How does personalized learning look like in Canvas? Upon completion, participants will be able to do the following:
Open forum: Institutional Research director finalist
Chris Feit, director of institutional research at Loras College, Dubuque is one of five finalists named in the search.
Wednesday, 20 Feb 2019
Workshop, Rubrics and Outcomes in Canvas (Canvas Track 2)
Rubrics are a great way to provide useful formative feedback to your students. Rubrics can also help you understand where your students stand in your course. Learn how to receive insights into whether your students are meeting your intended outcomes as you monitor their progress with constructive feedback! Upon completion, participants will be able to do the following:
Award-Winning Faculty Series: A Day in the Life of a Rural African Woman: Bringing global experiences into the classroom (Dorothy Masinde)
Looking for more ways to excite, activate, and engage students? Needing a solution to transform frustrated students into successful, passionate learners? Award-winning lecturer Dorothy Masinde, Global Resource Systems, Horticulture, has thirty years of experience inspiring learners of all ages and cultural backgrounds.
Open forum: Institutional Research director finalist
Amanda DeGraff, senior analyst and assistant director of institutional research at Iowa State, is one of five finalists named in the search.
Workshop, Peer review and assessment with Canvas, Google and Qualtrics
Led by Lesya Hassall from CELT and Karla Embleton, the session will focus on the best use case scenarios for Canvas Peer Review, a generic peer review Google form and a peer review Qualtrics process to accommodate peer review of student work and behavior.
Faculty workshop: Documenting Your Research Impact and Increasing Visibility
This session will cover introductory impact metrics and sources (including journal impact factors and altmetrics); identifying who is citing your work and creating reports in Web of Science and Scopus; and methods for increasing scholarly visibility such as Google Scholar and ORCiD profiles, Digital Repository @ISU, and open access publishing.
Friday, 22 Feb 2019
Faculty Brown Bag Lunch
VP for diversity and inclusion Reg Stewart and VP for research Sarah Nusser will share pieces of their leadership journeys in "The Gritty Truth of Higher Ed Administration: Discerning Your Path."
Open forum: Institutional Research director finalist
Kathy Felts, associate director of research activities and myVITA coordinator, office of the provost, at the University of Missouri, Columbia, is one of five finalists named in the search.