Going for gold at the intersection of education and technology: Making Quality Matter

Date: May 23, 2016
Time: 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Location: GEB A304

Presenter: Deb Adair (Executive Director – Quality Matters)

Overview:

QM is an organization that takes a hard look at the quality of online and blended learning courses and programs and seeks to support faculty and institutions in continually improving student learning outcomes. We look back in reliance on the research literature to help us understand what has been working and why.  We look ahead at the innovations in the field to understand what quality might look like as we build towards the future.  In the middle, in the boundary spanning role we play, we see the heart of higher education, our educators, ready to move forward but wary of the process.  Is the benefit of change worth the cost to achieve it?  What is the urgency, anyway?   How do we move forward in teaching with technology, in all formats, in a way that maximizes the affordances of technology while respecting the gold standard of faculty-student engagement?

Register to attend: http://tinyurl.com/TLC-MakingQualityMatter

The Truth About Flipped Classrooms

Date: June 1, 2016
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Location: GEB A304

Presenter: Dr. Julie Schell (Director of OnRamps and Strategic Initiatives & Clinical Assistant Professor in the College of Education at the University of Texas Austin)

Overview:

Instructors all over the globe are turning their students’ worlds around by flipping their classrooms. In a flipped class, teachers move information coverage out of the lecture hall so that they can better leverage in-­‐class time to address student difficulties and misconceptions. In this interactive session, Dr. Julie Schell will flip the webinar by providing brief introductory, pre-­‐workshop activities to participants. She will use responses from these activities in the workshop and discuss the three basic steps for effectively flipping any classroom. Throughout the presentation, participants will confront and resolve a series of common myths about flipped teaching.

Note: This is not a session on how to create lecture videos.

Register to attend: http://tinyurl.com/TLC-FlippedClassrooms

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You can also visit the Professional Development Calendar to access a list of upcoming sessions sponsored by Academic/Faculty Affairs or other groups on campus at: https://academic.uthsc.edu/tlc/calendar.php

You can apply credit received for professional development outside the university to your faculty training records? Simply complete the HR Request for Additional Training Credit form found at http://www.uthsc.edu/hrtraining/pdfs/additional_training_credit_form.pdf and forward it, along with a copy of the program’s agenda, to the HR Training Department at 910 Madison, Suite 727.

Why do this? The University of TN believes that professional development and training of its employees are central to the university’s mission, vision, and values. Having credit received elsewhere to your UTHSC training records is very useful to your department and college – for things such as annual reviews and program accreditations.