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Building your Network of Support to Prepare you for Tenure and Promotion

Williams Hall 303 S. School Street, Normal, IL, United States

Join us for a panel discussion with senior faculty to learn more about strategies and recommendations they have for navigating tenure and promotion and building a strong network of support. During this informal discussion, you will learn from those who have gone before about the routines and partnerships they established in their early career years. […]

Sustaining Student Engagement and Motivation Online

Online Workshop

Online courses can appear to be an obstacle to student engagement and motivation when compared to face-to-face courses.  There are challenges in online courses that instructors face, such as the absence of non-verbal cues seen in student faces, the ability to show enthusiasm for the content being taught, and the apparent absence of a community […]

Design Your Online Course

Online Workshop

Got a course plan you want to develop for online delivery? This internationally recognized, 2-part workshop includes an overview of the Quality Matters Rubric and provides a framework for participants to design an online course plan. An integral element of the workshop is an exploration of the eight General Standards of the QM Rubric, focusing […]

GenAI and Research Writing Assignments

Milner Library 201 N. School Street, Normal, IL, United States

Just as the internet and Wikipedia have before, GenAI is changing the way that we interact with information as humans, and so the way we teach researched writing assignments will also need to change. This session will discuss the affordances and limitations of GenAI with regards to typical research assignments across the curriculum. Registration is […]

Collecting and Using Student Feedback

Online Workshop

Getting feedback from our students is an essential part of reflective and scholarly teaching, as this allows us to make adjustments to our instruction and course design. Course evaluations, also known as student ratings of instruction (SRI), are just one data point in a rich body of information that we can use to plan for […]

GenAI and Civic Engagement

Williams Hall 303 S. School Street, Normal, IL, United States

GenAI has massive implications for content creation outside of the University, as it becomes both more powerful and more seamless in the creation of text, video, and audio. As we strive to help our students become engaged citizens, information literacy and AI literacy are more important than ever. This session will discuss ways in which […]

Use Canvas to Support an In-Person Course 

Online Workshop

When teaching an in-person or hybrid course, Canvas is there to help! With just a little bit of time and planning, you can use Canvas to help students grow, learn, and be successful in your course. You will learn evidence-based strategies for designing and sharing course content with students. You will explore how to use […]

Effective Practices for Peer Observation 

Williams Hall 303 S. School Street, Normal, IL, United States

Peer observation can be a valuable tool for gathering feedback on teaching practices. When used formatively, feedback gathered from peer observation can encourage scholarly teaching and has the potential to transform teaching and learning. This workshop will examine the role observations play in professional growth, identify effective practices in the classroom observation process, and provide […]

Intro to Queer Allyship 

Williams Hall 303 S. School Street, Normal, IL, United States

LGBTQIA2S+ youth, including college students, are among the most at-risk groups for mental health challenges, housing and food insecurity, and domestic violence, because of the ways in which society’s support systems fail to see and value them. Formerly referred called Safe Zone, Intro to Queer Allyship is a knowledge-level workshop focusing on using terminology appropriately, […]

Equitable Assessment Practices in Canvas 

Online Workshop

This workshop will discuss what equitable assessment means and what it can look like in practice. We’ll focus on specific choices that you can make within your Canvas assignments to provide students with different types of opportunities to demonstrate their knowledge. You’ll learn more about setting up Assignments and Quizzes in ways that promote equity […]

Improve Your Online Course 

Online Workshop

This two-part workshop explores the Quality Matters Rubric and provides a framework to improve existing online or hybrid courses. Participants use the QM Rubric to review their own online courses and develop a course improvement plan, so enrolling in the workshop with a pre-developed online course is required. Registration is required.

GenAI in our Scholarly Professional Lives

Milner Library 201 N. School Street, Normal, IL, United States

GenAI can be used for more than professional writing. Scholars and teachers are finding that GenAI tools can help support their own work by increasing efficiency and supporting efforts to organize, plan, and conduct routine tasks. This session will be a discussion about ways GenAI can be used as a helpful tool on a day-to-day […]