In this installment of our SoTL faculty spotlight series, Valerie O’Loughlin (Professor of Anatomy and Associate Director, Undergraduate Education, Medical Sciences Program, School of Medicine) shares her path to becoming a SoTL researcher. Valerie first became introduced to SoTL in 1999 during an information session about creating a SoTL community at IUB, and she and… Read more »
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Flipping Your Class, Part 4: First Exposure Matters? Presenting Materials to Students Online
In the last part of this series, we filled our in-class framework with activities that allow our students to collaborate on the advanced learning objectives to achieve mastery. For this final part, we’ll be designing a pre-class session focusing on our basic learning objectives that students complete on their own. Our primary goal is to… Read more »
2nd Annual CITL Summer Reading List
Last year, we provided suggestions for your summer reading lists from books we’ve read ourselves. This summer we’d like to provide additional suggestions. Over the summer, CITL consultants plan to collectively read Anton Tolman and Janine Kremling’s Why Students Resist Learning (2016). In this book, the authors propose an integrated model to explain why students may… Read more »
A Faculty Mentor Roadmap to Campus AI Orientations
Orientation socializes your new graduate students to the expectations, policies, and resources of your program. Graduate students also learn about their teaching responsibilities within the context of disciplinary and departmental norms. We hope you will incorporate into your teaching orientation plans two campus opportunities for graduate students to develop their teaching. Associate Instructor Workshop on… Read more »
Prepare for Summer: Set up your Canvas Course Site
Are you preparing to teach this summer? If so, this checklist can help to you as you finalizing your course setup. Add or create your syllabus We recommend integrating your syllabus into Canvas by linking to an accessible Word document. Following the proper guidelines for creating an accessible Word document, this file can be read… Read more »
Submit Final Grades: A Checklist for Getting It Right
Thanks to Umida Khikmatillaeva for creating this post. The end of the semester is very close, and it is almost time to submit final grades. This list will help you make sure that Canvas can calculate your final grades accurately. Select your grading scheme The grading scheme lets Canvas know which letter grade your percentages… Read more »