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Introducing Dr. Susan Zvacek: The new Associate Provost for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning   

 

Susan was the Senior Director of Teaching Excellence and Learning Technologies at Fort Hays State University, in Kansas, and previously worked at the University of Kansas and Old Dominion University. 

Susan just returned from Portugal, where she was a Fulbright Specialist at the University of Porto twice during the past six months leading workshops and teaching courses on innovative teaching strategies for engineering education. She has been a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic and has an impressive list of published papers, presentations, keynote addresses, and workshops that address teaching in the digital age, self-regulated learning, distance learning, assessment, accreditation, instructional design, collaborative learning, faculty development, and classroom architectural design, among other topics.    

Read more and help us welcome Dr. Susan Zvacek!  

Fall Workshop    

Facilitated by: Chayla Haynes, Assistant Professor, University of Northern Colorado 

This interactive workshop aims to both expose faculty to teaching practices that promote inequitable educational outcomes among college students based on race and equip faculty with the skills to implement behaviors (i.e., specific course design formats and pedagogical choices) in their classrooms that link inclusion to teacher excellence. Participants are encouraged to come to the workshop ready to engage in the type of discussion and group activity that fosters deep learning, reflexivity, and the co-construction of knowledge.  

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October Lunch & Learn Series     

This fall the OTL will offer a series of "Lunch and Learn" sessions on various topics related to teaching and learning. Bring your lunch and your curiosity and join us for one or all of the sessions!

"Wrappers" are short handouts or surveys that students complete along with an assignment or exam. The wrapper focuses on the learning process rather than on the content itself. In this session we will look at a number of assignment wrapper examples and discuss methods for using them effectively. If you've already used wrappers in your course, please contact bridget.arend@du.edu before the session.

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In this interactive workshop, we'll discuss some key research-based perspectives on how people learn that can be used as "tools to think with" when it comes to designing and facilitating learning experiences for our students.  An initial 20-minute presentation on these research-based perspectives will be followed by an opportunity for faculty to discuss how these perspectives might apply to their own work with students.

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This workshop/roundtable event explores the tools available in the Canvas system for building program assessment into the evaluation of course assignments.  Learn how outcomes can be designated and then aggregated at the program level as part of your assessment plan.  An initial overview will be followed by a Q&A discussion that can focus on the needs of individual programs.  This initial conversation will help the Office of Teaching and Learning identify current and future needs for assistance in this area.

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Serious assessment projects can provide opportunities to present or publish the findings.  Come and talk about ways to translate your work in assessment into additions to your vitae.  Topics may include:  Working with the IRB, where to publish or present, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

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Online Courses Expanding: Students Report Benefits            

DU has been offering online courses through University College for several years, and the number of online course offerings within our traditional academic programs is expanding, especially during summer term. Over 165 DU instructors, representing almost every academic unit on campus, have successfully completed the OTL's Teaching Online Workshop, an intensive online workshop designed to prepare faculty members to teach an online course.

During the 2014 summer term, DU offered 80 fully online undergraduate courses to over 950 students. At the end of the summer, 254 students (26%) responded to a survey about their experiences in their online course(s). The majority of students who completed the survey reported they learned a great deal in their online course (78%) and that they would take another online class at DU (85%).