Thursday, 09 Mar 2017
Award-Winning Faculty Series: Become the Change You Want to See in the World
Alicia Carriquiry, Distinguished Professor in Statistics, recently elected to the National Academy of Medicine, shares with you how she helped solve the real-world, interdisciplinary problems of nutritionists and forensic scientists.
Friday, 10 Mar 2017
Panel: SOTL Scholars - How to Design a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Project
Sara Marcketti, Associate Director, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Professor, Apparel Merchandizing and Design, will introduce you to faculty from a range of disciplines documenting their teaching effectiveness for promotion, tenure, and professional development. Participants will leave this session with ideas for implementing SOTL projects in their own teaching and ready to apply for the SOTL Scholars program.
Thursday, 23 Mar 2017
Seminar: Evaluation of learning and attendance with Top Hat
The second session in a three-event series focused on the use of Top Hat, a teaching interactive platform, offers insights into faculty experiences with evaluating student learning and attendance and the role this tool plays for efficient course management.
Friday, 24 Mar 2017
Seminar: ISU Online Learning Community (ISU-OLC) (formerly ISU-BUG)
The purpose of the ISU-OLC is to share campus best practices to improve online teaching and learning; see how others are using the University Learning Management System (LMS) to create innovative learning experiences, inform the campus about existing and new web-based instructional technologies, participate in new technology testing and evaluation; as well as, to leverage LMS expertise, experience and training resources across campus.
Wednesday, 29 Mar 2017
Meeting: ThinkSpace Teaching and Learning Community
We welcome you to join the ThinkSpace Learning Community (TLC) where ISU faculty meet to create exceptional learning opportunities for students. Centering on ThinkSpace, an active learning and problem solving platform with a set of unique, powerful pedagogical tools, the TLC is designed to help you take your students' learning to higher levels-- learning that builds problem solving skills required in the workplace.
Thursday, 30 Mar 2017
Workshop: Easy ways to make your course accessible using Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
In this interactive workshop, Samuel Harvey, a doctoral student in English with a BS in Special Education and an MA in Rhetoric, will help you generate tips and tricks for making your classroom more accessible to all your students. Persona theory is an effective method for re-imagining how various students are interfacing with your course material, and Sam will guide you through this process.