Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources
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
On-Demand Professional Development
20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 Archives)
Accessing Archived Session Materials:
Happen to miss one of the 20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor sessions? Archived session materials for the Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 series are available in the Professional Development course within Blackboard. To access the materials, click the Session/Webinar Archives tab in the course menu located on the left side of the page. The session materials are located within the Monday Morning Mentor Series content folder.
Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course are located at http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll.
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Institutional Membership
UTHSC is now an institutional member of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). The ELI is committed to advancing learning through the innovative application of technology.
Membership Highlights
- 7 Things You Should Read About…™ guides to the most relevant resources on key teaching and learning topics
- Free access to live webinars with presentations from leading experts on topics like assessment of student learning, online and blended teaching and learning, learning analytics, and more
- Immediate access to Seeking Evidence of Impact case studies as well as other briefs and white papers to keep you informed on emerging trends
- Monthly issues of the popular 7 Things You Should Know About…™ series on the latest technologies
- A chance to engage, share, and gather solutions from colleagues in the ELI Community Forum
Accessing ELI Resources
In order to access ELI member-only resources, you will need to create an EDUCAUSE profile. If you do not have a profile, visit our login page and follow the instructions to create your personal EDUCAUSE profile.
To further explore your member benefits, visit www.educause.edu/eli, and also look for the bimonthly newsletter to keep up-to-date with new developments.
Go2Knowledge (Your Link to On-Demand Professional Development)
UTHSC is now an institutional member of Innovative Educators. Our membership provides all UTHSC faculty and staff access to on-demand events available through the Innovative Educator’s digital library (Go2Knowledge).
The Go2Knowledge library contains over a hundred sessions that fall within six of the following categories:
- At-risk populations
- Campus safety
- Organizational development
- Student success
- Teaching and learning
- Technology
Printable certificates of completion are available for each session. For information related to accessing sessions available through Innovative Educators/Go2Knowledge please visit the Professional Development course within Blackboard. Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course are located at http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll.
Did you know….
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.
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