CTL Happenings - Message #244

Engineering Education Research: The Growth of a Discipline

Tuesday, April 21, 2015 | Campus Center Theater | 4:30 - 7 p.m. 
Register»  | Organizers: Pratibha Varma-Nelson and Angela Briel | Presenter: Leah Jamieson

Engineering education research is emerging as an identifiable discipline, with engineering education departments, programs, and centers of excellence and a growing community of engineering education researchers around the globe. It is bringing together decades, and even centuries, of experience in teaching engineering with more recent learning from education and social-behavioral sciences research to delve into critical questions such as:
•    Who studies engineering and why?
•    What are engineering ways of thinking, knowing, and doing?
•    How do students of all ages learn engineering?
•    How do we assess engineering education practice and learning?
•    How do engineering education systems evolve?
•    How do we connect engineering education research with engineering education practice?

A reception will be held outside the theater from 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. The lecture will start immediately after.

This talk will explore the engineering education research agenda that grew out of the National Engineering Education Research Colloquies sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation in 2006.  The talk will also look at the university and the professional infrastructure that go into the creation, growth, and recognition of a new field, and will summarize the opportunities and challenges for engineering education from a survey of engineering faculty committees, department chairs, and deans in the United States.

About the speaker:
Leah Jamieson is the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering at Purdue University, Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and holds a courtesy appointment in Purdue’s School of Engineering Education. She served as the 2007 President and CEO of the IEEE, electrical and computer engineering’s 400,000-member global professional society.  She is co-founder and past director of the EPICS – Engineering Projects in Community Service Program.

This event is sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI.

Canvas: Quizzes and Tests: Level I

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 | Online - Adobe Connect | 12 - 12:50 p.m.
Register»  | Organizer: Tom Janke | Presenters: Cordah Pearce 

In this webinar taught by CITL consultant Cordah Robinson and Kim Murday of IT Training, participants will learn about the basics of using the Quizzes tool, including how to create a quiz, specify settings, and add individual questions. Participants will also learn how to use Question Groups to organize and randomize questions, as well as the range of response options for quizzes.

Introducing the Taskstream Directed Response Folio

Friday, April 17, 2015 | UL 1125M | 9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Register»  | Organizer: Amy Powell | Presenter: Lynn Ward

The Directed Response Folio, or DRF, is the segment of Taskstream’s ePortfolio most similar in function to the assessment capabilities of the Oncourse ePortfolio. The DRF can be organized according to programs, standards, or course sequences; enables construction and use of rubrics for feedback and grading; and provides extensive analytics and reports.

Equally important for many IUPUI ePortfolio projects, the DRF supports student learning and development through feedback from peers and external commenters. Students can also submit their WebFolios as assignments within the DRF framework, allowing programs to capture developmental progress by saving work at designated stages. Come learn more about decisions you’ll need to consider in creating a Directed Response Folio. This workshop assumes some experience with or basic understanding of ePortfolios. Experience with the Matrix tool in the Oncourse ePortfolio may be helpful.

Introducing the Taskstream WebFolio

Friday, April 17, 2015 | UL 1125M | 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Register»  | Organizer: Amy Powell | Presenters: Mark Alexander, Amy Powell

Feedback from early IUPUI experiments with WebFolio, the presentation tool in Taskstream, is very positive. This hands-on introductory workshop offers you the chance to step through the process of creating your own WebFolio with guidance in personalizing the design templates; adding text, photos, links, media files and other content; adding and rearranging pages and tabs; and saving and publishing your ePortfolio. The workshop will include a brief overview of all of Taskstream’s capabilities and ways in which the WebFolio can work with or exist independently of the Directed Response Folio. Bring your laptop and some favorite photos, videos, links, and/or papers so you’ll have material at hand as you create your WebFolio.

First Look at Canvas Webinar - IT Training

Thursday, April 30, 2015 | Online - Adobe Connect | 3 - 3:50 p.m.
Register»  | Organizer: Tom Janke | Presenter: Kimmaree Murday, M Leach

Monday, May 4, 2015 | Online - Adobe Connect | 2 - 2:50 p.m.
Register»  | Organizer: Tom Janke | Presenter: M Leach

Friday, May 8, 2015 | Online - Adobe Connect | 12 - 12:50 p.m.
Register»  | Organizer: Tom Janke | Presenter: Kimmaree Murday, Erich Bauer

In this webinar, jointly offered by CTL and IT Training, we will explore and discuss the structure of Canvas, IU’s new learning management system. The presentation will give instructors an understanding of the interactivity of Canvas tools and how that influences how courses are set up. Participants will learn about the following Canvas tools: Home, Calendar, Syllabus, Assignments, and Settings. 

Canvas: Assignments and Grading

Wednesday, May 6, 2015 | Online - Adobe Connect | 11 - 11:50 a.m.
Register»  | Organizer: Tom Janke | Presenters: Cordah Pearce

Friday, May 15, 2015 | Online - Adobe Connect | 12 - 12:50 p.m.
Register»  | Organizer: Tom Janke | Presenters: Cordah Pearce

In this webinar, Cordah Robinson will demonstrate how the Assignments tool and Grades tool present graded activities to students and how instructors can use these tools to record grades and communicate with students about their competency and progress.

Canvas: Communication Strategies 

Thursday, May 7, 2015 | Online - Adobe Connect | 2 - 2:50 p.m.
Register»  | Organizer: Tom Janke | Presenters: Madeleine Gonin

Canvas offers instructors many ways to communicate with their students. In this webinar, Madeleine Gonin from the CITL and Kim Murday of IT Training will discuss best practices for using the following tools: the inbox, announcements, chat, discussions, and notifications. Participants will then be able to determine which communication options best meet their needs.

Prerequisites: A basic understanding of Canvas is required. Participants should have attended a First Look workshop, read the Instructor Quickstart guide, and/or watched the instructor videos available at http://guides.instructure.com.

Quality Matters - Applying the QM Rubric

Friday, May 8, 2015 | Campus Center 308 | 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. 
Register»  | Organizer and Presenter: Lauren Easterling

Indiana University has subscribed to Quality Matters (QM) as a tool and process for the design, development, and ongoing review of online courses, especially those that are part of the IU Online initiative. The Applying the QM Workshop is QM's official workshop on the QM Rubric and the process of using the QM Rubric to review online courses. It is intended for a broad audience, including but not limited to faculty, instructional designers, administrators, and adjunct instructors who wish to understand more about the QM Rubric and process of course review.

This workshop will introduce faculty and staff to the QM Rubric and Process, sharing best practices for online course design. The QM Rubric is a research-based set of standards that can be used during the course design process. The QM Process is a peer review process that eventually will review many IU Online courses, with the goal of achieving QM Recognition for mature online courses in the near future. Also, the APPQMR is the pre-requisite for the Peer Reviewer Course, which is the required course to become a QM Peer Reviewer.

This workshop will be offered at IUPUI face-to-face from 9am until 4:30pm, with occasional breaks. Participants will have one hour for lunch, and are free to bring their own lunch or take advantage of the many options available on campus. To receive the QM certificate of completion for this workshop, participants must be present for and participate in the entire workshop.

Lindsey to Keynote at Bringle Civic Engagement Showcase and Symposium

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 | Campus Center Lower Level | 3 - 6:30 p.m.
Register»  | Organizer: Center for Service and Learning | Presenter: Greg Lindsey

IUPUI celebrates another successful year of campus and community engagement at the 11^th Annual Robert G. Bringle Civic Engagement Showcase and Symposium, with various activities from 3:00 PM to 6:30 PM, on Tuesday, April 14, at the IUPUI Campus Center-Lower Level Auditorium.

This year's theme is Strengthening Partnerships to Enhance Quality of Life in Indianapolis. The event begins with a keynote “Counting for Your Community: University-Community Partnerships to Advance the Common Good” by Dr. Greg Lindsey, former Associate Dean of IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Professor, University of Minnesota. In this keynote, Dr. Lindsey will reflect on the distinctive contributions university-community partnerships can make to the common good, and the characteristics of sustainable, effective partnerships. 

Community partners and the campus community are welcomed to attend this free event. For planning purposes, we request RSVP by Tuesday, April 7^th. For more information or questions, please contact Mansi R. Singh, Communication Specialist, at patelm@iupui.edu.

IUPUI Research Day

The IUPUI Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research invites you to IUPUI Research Day 2015 on Friday, April 17. This open house celebrates the cutting-edge and multifaceted research and scholarly activities of IUPUI.

Research Day provides an opportunity for the IUPUI faculty, staff, and students, their academic, industrial, and governmental partners, and the broader community, to come together and learn more about the research enterprise at IUPUI, to explore new collaborations, and to lay the foundation for new partnerships.

To register or for more information: http://research.iupui.edu/events/researchday2015/index.php

Center for Service and Learning Grants and Scholarships

CSL Dissemination Grants
Application Deadline: Through April 2015 or until funding is exhausted. 

About: The Center for Service and Learning has designated funds for small dissemination grants between $500 and $750. These grants are available to support faculty and instructional staff in disseminating work associated with civic and community engagement in higher education, particularly work that builds the knowledge base related to service learning pedagogy, community-university partnerships and community-based participatory research/collaborative inquiry.

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Gateway to Graduation TECH Talk

Monday, May 11, 2015 | Campus Center 450C | 8:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Register»  | Organizer: Gateway to Graduation

It’s no secret that our digital natives are transforming academic culture via their relationship with technology.  Instructors have a wide variety of options to use this trend to benefit their teaching. Transformation can come in small increments, but requires rethinking how we teach and how we meet our students where they are: online. This workshop will investigate student opinions and experiences with technology and will provide instructors a bounty of ideas to utilize in their next class.  Discover how to build learning opportunities and improve learning outcomes by understanding how students use technology to learn and engage with their faculty. This workshop is eligible for Gateway Teaching Academy credit.