The events calendar on the new Teaching.IU is our first-ever centralized teaching and learning calendar. It brings together upcoming events from a range of contributors like IT Training, campus teaching and learning centers, the Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching (FACET), and Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs (DEMA).
Get quick introductions to the online courses available at no cost through IU Expand. In 30 to 60 minutes, you'll explore examples of what to expect from a course and learn how to enroll.
Explore courses and register online.
Access recordings of previous webinars.
Choose from 19 stations covering everything from active learning tools and ways to improve your video to affordable content and emerging technologies.
As always, you can choose to visit those that are most applicable to the way you teach—at 9 minutes each, you can stay for one round or several, depending on your interest and availability. And afterward, if you think something is a good fit for you, we can arrange a "second date" for a more personalized session.
Register now for Speed Dating with Learning Technologies.
For more information, visit the event website.
Do you have questions about working in Microsoft Teams? Would you like to make your experience using Teams better? A training group from Microsoft is providing online training sessions just for IU.
Over the course of four weeks, you'll have the opportunity to get guided training in aspects of Teams including the basics, meetings, project management, and storage. You'll also be able to ask questions during the sessions and have access to the recording following each session.
Are you concerned that your students are disengaged during lectures? Do you wonder what your 30 or 300 students are doing while you deliver your lecture?
In this webinar we will discuss common concerns about lecturing, particularly in large classes. We will describe ways to think through the design of your lectures so that they engage students while helping them master course content as the semester progresses.
Join IU Libraries for a series of Open Access (OA) events as part of the larger international celebration. OA is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, educational material and data, coupled with the right to use them fully in digital environments.
IU Libraries offers services and repositories for open access publishing of complete journals, singular articles in IU ScholarWorks, and now, data. IU students, faculty, and staff use these services to make their scholarly research materials freely available to readers around the world, regardless of affiliation. IU Libraries are also champions of Open Education Resources.
Three upcoming events reflect this commitment to OA:
Meet DataCORE, IU Libraries' new Open Access Data Repository
Wednesday, October 20, 12-1pm ET
Learn more and get the Zoom link here.
Datasets that underlie research findings are now often required to be discoverable and preserved for future use. Join IU Libraries for this virtual Brown Bag Lunch series with Jim Halliday (DataCORE developer), Brian Keese (DataCORE developer), and Ethan Fridmanski (Data Services Librarian) to learn more about how IU Libraries developed DataCORE to advance science at IU.
Your Journals Are Spying on You: Research Surveillance in Library Products
Friday, October 22, 12pm ET
Attend in person at Wells Library, Scholars' Commons Hazelbaker Hall, or get a link to the online event.
Sarah Lamdan is a Professor of Law at the CUNY School of Law and a leading expert on the evolution of library vendors into surveillance and data brokering activities. She is also a Senior Fellow with SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition).
In this discussion, Lamdan will look at how companies' research platforms are now part of larger data analytics systems, and what that means for privacy and intellectual freedom. We’ll also discuss open access projects and other efforts to help ensure that people can do their research without being subjected to surveillance.
Peer Review as a Relationship, with up//root
Tuesday, October 26, 12pm ET
Attend in person at Wells Library, Scholars' Commons Hazelbaker Hall, or get a link to the online event.
Three members of the up//root open access publishing collective editorial team will discuss an approach to peer review that offers contributors and reviewers agency in the process. up//root intentionally centers the research, meditations and creative works by, for, and of BIPOC, as well as a publishing environment that prioritizes well-being.
Speakers will be: Megdi Abebe, an Ethiopian-American MS/LIS student at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, 2020 Spectrum scholar and 2021 California Library Association Developing Leader; Kristina, an Afro-Puerto Rican MLIS candidate and Knowledge River scholar at the University of Arizona iSchool, and a 2021 ALA Spectrum scholar; and Sofia Leung, a Chinese American librarian, facilitator, and educator, currently settled on Mashpee Wampanoag land. She is a founding editor at up//root: a we here publication, and the co-editor of Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies Through Critical Race Theory.
Online classes have a reputation for being dry, boring, and unengaging. But emotion science offers a powerful tool to address this challenge.
Both faculty and students struggle to create and participate in highly interactive online learning experiences, which in turn negatively impacts engagement and motivation for all involved.
We'll explore the literature on how emotion and cognition work together, consider five ways emotions enhance learning, and discuss practical strategies for putting emotions to work in our online and remote teaching to enhance social connections and improve students’ motivation, focus, memory, and overall learning.
This year's conference theme is "Transforming student access and success with online education."
After the success of last year’s conference, the 2021 IU Online Conference is once again going virtual through Canvas and Zoom!
We will kick off the event with pre-conference workshops on Wednesday, October 27, followed by the conference on Thursday, October 28 and Friday, October 29. The pre-conference workshops on October 27 are scheduled from 9am-2:30pm ET. Conference sessions are scheduled from 9am-3pm ET on October 28 and 10am-3pm ET on October 29.
This year's theme is learning from our experiences teaching and learning in a pandemic to help both ourselves and our students.
The virtual ATLT Symposium brings the higher education community together to examine and showcase both existing and emerging instructional technologies and their pedagogical application across a variety of disciplines.
Our keynote speaker, Dr. Thomas Tobin of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will share three low-effort, high-impact teaching strategies to improve our classes as we navigate this "new normal."
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