Preliminary session info (still subject to change) appears below — more info continues to be added.

Tuesday, Jan 10 program overview

All participants will begin the day with a panel presentation and discussion with leading course designers from the University of Delaware.

After the panel session, those registered for the Hands-on Course Design Intensive track will continue the day with the second and third parts of their extended workshop.

Morning presentations willl continue with team-based learning by Mark Serva, who presents internationally on this topic. The morning will conclude with “Five Minutes of Fame”, a lightning round introducing many topics quickly so you can return later to those topics of interest to you.

After lunch, will be a choice among two workshops.


Designing courses with team-based learning in mind

Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Time: 10:20-11:20 a.m.
Location: Multi-Purpose Room A

Facilitator:
Ellen Monk
Mark Serva

Team-based learning offers promise to rethink and rejuvenate the traditional classroom. Participants will learn how to improve student engagement as well as encourage their students to come to class prepared.


Five minutes of fame

Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Time: 11:20 a.m. to 12 noon
Location: Multi-Purpose Room A

Presenters: listed below
Moderator: Sandy McVey

Five Minutes of Fame is a fast-paced session where you can pick up several exciting ideas, technologies, projects, or resources, all in five minute doses.

Presentations can come from any faculty or staff participant at this winter’s institute. E-mail your idea to faculty-institute@udel.edu.

Making Shakespeare: Undergraduates Engage with History

In “Making Shakespeare,” Matt Kinservik’s honors students studied Shakespeare and the ways in which succeeding generations transformed him into the canonical figure that he is today. The class worked closely with librarians in Special Collections, Reference, and the Student Multimedia Design Center, in order to incorporate a wealth of library resources into their research. For their final project, the students selected rare books from Special Collections and used them to construct a digital exhibit addressing specific aspects of the making and remaking of Shakespeare’s legacy.

Matt Kinservik
Alex Johnston

Blue Hen Success Collaborative update

The Blue Hen Success Collaborative (BHSC) is a coordinated effort led by faculty, staff and academic leadership to implement the Education Advisory Board’s (EAB) Student Success Collaborative Campus platform. The Blue Hen Success Collaborative will have a major impact on the work UD can do to support undergraduate students from initial enrollment to graduation. By combining technology, best practice research and predictive analytics, the BHSC will help UD leverage data and manage advising and academic support resources to increase retention and graduation rates for students.Find out more at Blue Hen Success Collaborative.

Naomi Nash

Library and Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center (IHRC) offer Funding Opportunities for Collections-Based Courses and Programming

Julie McGee and Rebecca Johnson Melvin will provide an overview of two new initiatives to promote campus engagement with collections: the IHRC’s call for proposals for collections-based courses and the Library’s Special Collections and Museums support for research, teaching and programming with collections. They will provide a discussion of some of the unique collections that can support students in gaining experience with archival and curatorial processes, develop digital humanities skills and contribute to an established digital repository.

Julie McGee
Rebecca Johnson Melvin

Provost’s Initiative for Excellence and Innovation in E-Learning

Web sites referenced:

Aviva Heyn

Faculty Commons Book Club

Karen Asenavage

From photo safari to applying biology concepts

Catherine Kirn-Safran


Activities for engagement —in class and online

Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p..m.
Location: Multi-Purpose Room A,
Trabant University Center

This workshop will explore techniques and strategies for engaging classroom activities and will introduce different approaches for classroom vs. online. Breakout groups will work with models and recommendations that are different for face-to-face classes compared to online delivery (e.g., through Canvas or Sakai).

Participants will focus on engagement strategies that support active learning strategies. The workshop will end with a reflection on how participants might apply these techniques to their own course.


Designing presentations for learning –in class and online

Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Location: Multipurpose Room C,
Trabant University Center

This workshop will explore key concepts for designing effective presentations and will introduce different approaches for classroom vs. online presentations. Building upon educational and cognitive research, this session will offer specific techniques you can apply to any presentation. Breakout groups will work with models and recommendations that are different for in-person presentations compared to online delivery (e.g., through Canvas or Sakai).

Participants will focus on presentation methods that foster understandable and memorable learning experiences. The workshop will end with a reflection on how participants might alter their own presentations as they apply these techniques.


Delivering learning experiences online

Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Time: 2:45 – 3:15 p.m.
Location: Multipurpose Room A,
Trabant University Center

Facilitator:
Nancy O’Laughlin

This session will be an introduction to Delivering Learning Experiences Online (DLEO), an online course for all those who teach at UD. Participants in this session will have the opportunity to continue with the online course for the remainder of winter session.

The course will assist you in transitioning content to an online environment regardless of the delivery modality of the course (face-to-face, blended or online). The program will provide you an opportunity to learn about and experience an online environment from a student’s perspective. To effectively create content for online use, it helps to have an authentic experience in this type of learning environment. While participating in online activities on this course, you will be considering and developing instructional and assessment techniques which can be incorporated into the design of your own courses. You will be expected to write goals and objectives, create learning modules, and prepare assessment techniques that demonstrate how your goals will be met.


Future faculty meet-up: Second day reflection

Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Time: 3:15 p.m.
Location: Multipurpose Room B,
Trabant University Center

For CIRTL* program participants, but all graduate students and postdocs are welcome:
Join this meetup for an opportunity to reflect on the institute program. Participation is part of your CIRTL credit.

*About CIRTL:
UD is a new member of The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) network. CIRTL uses graduate education as the leverage point to develop future faculty committed to implementing and advancing effective teaching practices for diverse student audiences as part of successful professional careers. The goal of CIRTL is to improve the learning of all students, at every college and university. Although its original goal was to increase the diversity in STEM fields and the STEM literacy of the nation, it now welcomes participation from graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from all disciplines.


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