Video Archive of Past Events

Improving Teaching Effectiveness and Student Learning Through Low-Stakes and Informal Writing Activities

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Active learning is self-reflexive, process-oriented, and personal, and should provide students the opportunity to assess their own learning. Such learning also creates the chance for teachers to become learners themselves: about the material, about students, and about teaching & learning. How can we create such self-reflexive learning experiences? One simple and adaptable method is by using low-stakes, informal writing. This interactive workshop will serve as a primer to the benefits of using informal writing as a tool to enhance student learning and to the many options for designing such assignments. Such informal (often non-graded or evaluated) writing assignments can improve student learning across all levels and abilities, in a variety of courses (seminar, large lecture, lab/studio), and in any discipline.

Teaching with the Case Method and
Problem-Based Learning

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Both the case method and problem-based learning (PBL) are proven powerful methods for engaging students in the subject matter, getting them to analyze situations, and giving them practice in applying the course material to solve real-world problems. These methods are well suited to disciplines that have a context for application or use. These include business, law, medicine, nursing, public health, all engineering specialties, education, philosophy (e.g., ethics), economics (e.g., macro, legal aspects), political science (e.g., policy analysis, public administration, constitutional law) sociology (e.g., social problems, criminal justice, organizations), psychology (e.g., clinical, abnormal, organizational behavior), biology (e.g., resource management, ecology, DNA testing, genetics), physics, chemistry, and research methods in general (e.g., hypothesis formulation, research study design). These methods have even been used in music history and art history.

Copyright

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An open discussion about the issues related to copyright, with special emphasis on works protected, length of copyright terms, exceptions and limitations, reproduction of others’ work, and fair use.

Multiple Choice Tests

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Drafting and interpreting items that evaluate the knowledge and performance relevant to the learning targets assessed as the most versatile of all the objective types of items multiple-choice questions are employed often in educational assessment. Crafting good items with plausible distractors and homogenous alternatives requires skill and practice. An item analysis presents information which provides clues regarding difficulty, discrimination, and coverage of learning targets. This presentation provides theoretical approaches and practical examples of generating and interpreting multiple-choice questions.

Policies and Programs for Dealing with Student Needs

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Interpreting and Using Your Course Evaluations for Teaching Development

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Please join the CTLE for a workshop that focuses on how faculty can use course evaluation results to enhance their teaching skills. The presentation and discussion will look at how to interpret student feedback on multiple-choice questions and open-ended comments.

Exploring Learning Styles

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Issues in Protecting Research Participants

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Writing Effective Course Syllabi

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This workshop is designed to help all faculty members learn how to design a syllabus so that it can serve as a contract, a record, and a learning tool for a course. Recommended syllabus components will also be discussed. The workshop will be useful to all: from new faculty designing their frst few syllabi to the seasoned veteran looking to fne tune existing syllabi.

First Year Faculty: Annual Self Report

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Providing Effective Support for Students with Disabilities

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It is a well known fact that when individuals with disabilities are given the proper support they can perform exceptionally well. Two examples that spring to mind immediately are Helen Keller and Stephen Hawkins. We are not talking here of giving people special privileges that will give them an advantage over others. Instead, we attempt to level the playing feld to give everyone an equal chance. This workshop will look at some of the challenges faced by individuals with special needs and examine what can be done to help these individuals reach their potential. In particular, we will examine how service providers such as the CTLE, counselors, advisors, and professors can work as a team to enhance the learning environment for students with special needs.

Setting Objectives for Online Course Evaluations

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Course Evaluations can be an important tool for improving our teaching practice. In order for these evaluations to be useful tools, instructors must carefully set their goals and objectives by the deadline provided. By not doing so, you will signifcantly decrease the validity of the comparison process. This adversely affects all faculty members. Non-completion of objectives means that no objectives will appear for students to evaluate. Both the student online survey and your fnal course summary results will indicate that you did not identify any objectives.

Showcasing Teaching Enhancement Grants and Development Stipends for Online Courses

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The annual Teaching Enhancement Grants are awarded to instructors who wish to invest their time and resources to innovatively enhance their courses to promote student learning. Development Stipends for Online Courses support faculty members who nurture student learning through the creative use of ANGEL. This presentation will showcase the projects of two faculty members who have received these funds and have successfully completed their projects.

Fast and Fair Methods to Grade Writing… and More

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After taking this workshop, participants will be able to assess/grade the written work of their students (and more) quickly, fairly, objectively, effciently, and confdently using holistic grading methods. They will be able to develop and use rubrics that will provide valuable feedback as well as solid justifcations for the grades assigned. Download PowerPoint.

The Role of Social Networking in Teaching and Learning

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Young people communicate continuously. You see them texting and talking on their cell phones wherever you go; you see them deeply immersed in virtual worlds on the computer. This workshop will look at some of the aspects of social networking—such as blogs, wikis, Facebook, Google Docs—and explore how these media could be harnessed to enhance teaching and learning. Download PowerPoint

Getting to What Matters Most in Teaching and Learning

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This workshop focuses on preparing faculty to address issues related to teaching and learning in our diverse classrooms by focusing on what matters most. Through a series of brief writing exercises and small group discussions, we will explore pedagogical decisions and course designs useful in creating meaningful learning experiences for students.

Internet 2

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Dr. Zwicker will demonstrate how courses—in this case physics—can be enhanced by creating an interactive learning atmosphere using Internet2. While this presentation deals with Physics, the techniques can easily be applied in most other disciplines

Designing a Graphic Syllabus

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Students don’t always read a syllabus carefully, and even when they do, they may lack the scholarly background to grasp the “big picture” of the course organization that their instructor so judiciously developed. In this workshop, participants will learn how to make their course organization clear to students by designing a graphic syllabus—a diagram, flowchart, or concept map of the topical organization of a course—and they will explore the graphic syllabus is such a powerful learning tool.

Project Portfolios: Enhancing Student Learning through Portfolio Work

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Learning portfolios are an excellent tool for students to document their learning experience in courses and to reflect upon it. For instructors, they are a very effective assessment tool for student learning. Instructors who find the idea of portfolio assessment in their courses daunting or reject it on account of the size of their classes, might consider a project portfolio, a tool designed to document the learning experienced in a single project such as a term paper or report.

Showcasing Teaching Enhancement Grant Projects

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The annual Teaching Enhancement Grants are awarded to instructors who wish to invest their time and resources to innovatively enhance their courses to promote student learning. This presentation will showcase the projects of two faculty members.

Working with Learning Outcomes

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Clearly articulated learning outcomes lead to greater student satisfaction and effective curriculum design. They tell students what they will be able to do at the successful conclusion of your courses. This workshop will enable participants to investigate the role of learning outcomes in the curriculum and enable them to design learning outcomes for their courses and consider suitable assessment techniques.

Concept Mapping: Powerful as a Cognitive and Assessment Tool

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Concept Maps are an effective way of representing visually how a student understands a domain of knowledge. They can also be an effective means of exploring a given topic in the classroom. What we will explore: 1. Concept mapping as a pedagogical tool; 2. Its modalities of use for helping students visually organize their thinking and summarize subjects of study; and 3. Software tools that are available to facilitate this process.

How Did I Get That Mark? Effective Assessment of Student Learning

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In this workshop, participants will look at the importance of designing appropriate and effective assessment of student learning. They will look at the importance of designing effective criteria, communicating them to their students and giving formative feedback that encourages student reflection and learning.

The Students with Disabilities: Charting their Course for Academic Success

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Dr. Brinckerhoff is employed by Educational Testing Service (ETS) as the Director of the Office of Disability Policy. He also serves as a higher education and disability consultant to Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D). He is past-president of the Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) and former secretary of the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities. Dr. Brinckerhoff has authored over 25 articles, manuscripts, and co-authored one of the leading texts in the field, Postsecondary Education and Transition for Students with Learning Disabilities (PRO-ED). His areas of specialization are transition planning for high school students, programming for college students with learning disabilities, legal rights of adults with learning disabilities and program evaluation.