Over the next three months, the Center for Transformative Teaching offers four exciting new workshops and co-hosts a visit from Flower Darby, author of "Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes." Darby will be the featured speaker at November's Campus Conversation. During dead week, the CTT is partnering with faculty to offer workshops featuring virtual and augmented reality, efficient ways to close out the semester, and how to foster a culture of collaboration, empathy, and support in the classroom. In January, the center presents creating ACE signature assignments.
Small Teaching Online with Flower Darby
Nov. 22 — Flower Darby, director of teaching for student success at Northern Arizona University, presents "Small Teaching Online: Fostering Connections to Improve Student Engagement and Learning." Attendees will learn about the unique challenges of online learning, eight practical strategies for strengthening social and cognitive connections in students, and new strategies to connect and engage students. Livestream available. Details and registration.
Emerging Pedagogies: VR/AR
Dec. 9 — Adam Wagler, assistant professor of advertising and public relations, and Brian Wilson, instructional design technology specialist, will showcase ways in which virtual reality and augmented reality are being used in higher education. Participants will receive hands-on experience with a variety of VR applications. Participation limited to 30. Lunch provided. Details and registration.
Feedback Culture: Making it Work
Dec. 10 — Amanda Gonzales, Seacrest Teaching Fellow and assistant professor of accounting, teams up with undergraduate scholar Samantha Kaus and instructional designer Steven Cain to help attendees ensure that their teaching practices are connecting with their students. Participants will learn about the new student evaluation of teaching survey and how fostering a culture of collaboration, empathy, support, and exploration may impact evaluations. Details and registration.
Teaching and Technology: Semester Closure Workshop
Dec. 12 — CTT staff will present strategies to make end-of-term grading more efficient. Topics are drawn from common questions and challenges using the Canvas gradebook and assignment tool, including weighted assignment groups, dropping assignment grades, extra credit, the importance of adding zeroes, and how to add rubrics to assignments. Ways to safely and securely store course grades after the term is over will also be discussed. Participation limited to 30. Details and registration.
ACE Integrated Design Workshops
Jan. 7-8 — Patty Sollars, director of undergraduate education programs, teams up with instructional designers Eyde Olson and Amy Ort to help participants integrate ACE outcomes in their courses. ACE 101 takes instructors through the process of setting up ACE outcomes in their courses, how to evaluate using the ACE rubrics, and how to report ACE data. ACE 102 goes more in-depth, with participants drafting an ACE-signature assignment that fulfills both ACE and course objectives. Attendees will also learn how to incorporate ACE outcomes into the design of their courses using the data as part of a continuous re-design process. Both sessions will be offered on both days. ACE 101 is not a prerequisite for ACE 102. Details and registration.
Events and workshops are listed on the CTT website. Contact ctt@unl.edu for additional information.
More details at: https://go.unl.edu/tc1910-events