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UCET Book Group – Long Life Learning
This semester, UCET is hosting a book group on Long Life Learning by Michelle Weiss. The book makes the case that learners of the future are going to repeatedly seek out educational opportunities throughout the course of their working lives ― which will no longer have a beginning, middle, and end. Long Life Learning focuses on the… Read more »
UCET Book Group – Teach Students How to Learn
UCET will be running a Fall Semester discussion group on the book Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs That Don’t Even Exist Yet by Michelle Weiss. All faculty and staff are invited to join. Sign up by dropping a line to UCET@iu.edu by September 6. Free copies are reserved for the first few who respond.
UCET Book Group – Teaching with AI
Any faculty (or staff) with a desire to join the UCET Book Group on Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (by Jose Bowen and Eddie Watson) can drop a line to UCET@iu.edu. We have free copies to distribute to the first among you who sign up by September… Read more »
Avoiding Interruptions From Microsoft Teams While Instructing
Two quick tips to help you avoid issues from MS Teams during your classroom presentations: Before heading to teach your class, click on your avatar, or initials, toward the upper right corner of the desktop or web Microsoft (MS) Teams client. Clicking on your status (Available, Busy, etc.) will invoke a drop-down list of status,… Read more »
UCET to YOU
Through UCET to You, the University Center for Excellence in Teaching provides customized faculty development to any faculty group. For example, we have talked about peer review of teaching to Nursing, network mentoring to Business, and rubrics to Composition instructors. Maybe you want to know more about AI or accessibility. We are here to help…. Read more »
UCET Book Groups
Always popular with faculty (and staff) are the UCET Book Groups, where a title is read and discussed among colleagues. Often, treats are also present. This semester, we are hosting book groups on Long Life Learning, Teaching with AI, and Teach Students How to Learn. Drop a line to UCET@iu.edu to express an interest. Free… Read more »
Incentive for Professional Development for Associate Instructors
Academic Affairs has funded the Learn and Earn program that lets Associate Faculty (part-time) earn Faculty Development Units (FDUs) for participation in a range of faculty development activities. Modeled after the Continuing Education Units required by many professions, 1 FDU represents about an hour of faculty time. Compensation is Additional Pay, at a rate of… Read more »
AI in Your Syllabus
Faculty are required to “clearly explain to students which outside resources or other assistance may or may not be used on any examination, assignment, curricular or academic-related activity,” and this includes the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). The IU GenAI Task Force Report recommended that “acceptable GenAI usage should be clearly defined in syllabi,… Read more »
UCET’s Fall Program Calendar
While you can always view and register for upcoming UCET events on our Event Listing, you may want a version of our programming that you can print to keep at your desk or hand to a friend. We have you covered with our printable program calendar! This year, watch for the ever-popular and timely Teaching… Read more »