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Teaching and Learning Journals Description: A listing of magazines and journals related to teaching and learning, research and learning, multicultural professional development, the scholarship of teaching and learning and instructional technology found in the Bepko Library and University Library
P/T Service Dossier 2002 Description: Examples of P/T Service Dossiers from the year 2002
Research Dossier 2000 Description: Promotion and Tenure Research Dossier example from the year 2000.
Promotion and Tenure Research Dossier 2000 Description: Examples of Research Dossiers from the year 2000.
P/T Research Dossier 2002 Description: Examples of Research Dossiers from the year 2002
P/T Teaching Dossier 2002 Description: Examples of P/T Teaching Dossiers from the year 2002
P/T All Disciplines Dossier 2004 Description: Examples of P/T All Discipline Dossiers from the year 2004
P/T Research Dossier 2005 Description: Examples of P/T Research Dossiers from the year 2005
P/T Teaching and Service Dossier 2005 Description: Examples of P/T Teaching and Service Dossiers from the year 2005
P/T Libarian Dossiers 2006 Description: Examples of P/T Librarian Dossiers from the year 2006
P/T Research and Creative Activity Dossiers 2000 Description: Examples of P/T Research and Creative Activity Dossiers from the year 2002
P/T Research Dossiers 2000 Description: Examples of P/T Research Dossiers from the year 2000
P/T Teaching Dossiers 2000 Description: Examples of P/T Teaching Dossiers from the year 2000
PT Balanced Case Dossier 2002 Description: Examples of Balanced Case Dossiers from the year 2002
P/T Research Dossier 2002 Description: Examples of P/T Research Dossiers from the year 2002
P/T Sabbatical Dossiers 2005 Description: Examples of P/T Sabbital Dossiers from the year 2005
P/T Teaching Dossier 2005 Description: Examples of P/T Teaching Dossiers from the year 2005
Citation Management Software Comparison Description: This guide compares EndNote, EndNote Web, and Zotero. All of these programs allow users to save citations, share citations with others, quickly access information, and automatically generate bibliographies.
Guide to IUPUI Libraries Electronic Books Description: This guide provides an overview of IUPUI Libraries Electronic Books: Books24x7:ITPro, NetLibrary, ebrary. Information such as access, how to link to a specific book or book chapter, and the number of simultaneous users is provided.
Information Resources Course Planning Checklist Description: This checklist guides faculty through options for integrating library and information resources into a course.
Connecting Students to Library Resources in Oncourse Description: This step-by-step guide covers how to use three main tools in the Library Resources section of Oncourse. Use the library resources tool in Oncourse to quickly and easily link to course or assignment specific databases, research guides, and other information sources.
Connecting Students to Course Readings in Oncourse Description: This step-by-step guide discusses the three main ways to link to materials owned by the IUPUI Libraries via Oncourse. Benefits and limitations for each method are discussed.
Bibliography for Difficult Dialogues Description: Print and online resources for successfully facilitating difficult dialogues.
Bibliography for Faculty Professional Development Description: Rich list of resources for faculty, instructional and organizational development.
Bibliography for Linking Learning with Space Design Description: Resources for learning theory, NetGen students and learning spaces along with main themes for each topic.
Generational Understanding_IUS Description: Presentation for IUS teaching center on generational understanding.
2008 Power Up Your Pedagogy: Second Life Resources Description: This document provides lots of links to resources dealing with Second Life and other virtual reality resources. Multiple readings are listed also for further research.
Power Up Your Pedagogy: Next Generation Research Tools Description: Move beyond traditional library and information resources and discover Web 2.0 library and information tools. This presentation covers some of the tools and concepts and how they can fulfill a research or classroom need, as well as encourage collaborative research and information seeking tasks. Topics include: Social bookmarking Next generation citation tools Library Facebook applications Research “playlists” Library FireFox Add-ons
2008 Power Up Your Pedagogy: Brad Wheeler Keynote Address Description: Scholarship 2.0 Changes Nothing keynote presentation by Brad Wheeler, V.P. for Information Technology and CIO.
2008 Power Up Your Pedagogy: Wiki Work Description: Wiki Work: An Opportunity for Active Learning Presented by Kristina Horn Sheeler In this session participants will have the opportunity to learn how one instructor has employed wikis in both online and face-to-face classes. The various assignments, the rationale behind their design, and student feedback will be shared.
2008 Power Up Your Pedagogy: Academic Integrity in a 2.0 World Description: Academic integrity has become a major issue on college and university campuses all over the U.S. This presentation will address the issues of academic integrity, changing cultural norms, and students perception of plagiarism and tools like Turnitin.com in a Web 2.0 world. Examine strategies for discussing academic integrity in the classroom and for successfully integrating tools like Turnitin.com into your courses.
2008 Power Up Your Pedagogy: Going Where Your Students Are Description: This presentation covers the use of social networking sites, photo galleries, and blogs to help students connect with you, each other, and course content. Facebook.com can help your students work in groups, contribute to class discussions, and build social networks that could increase student retention in your program. Myspace.com, Flickr.com Webshots.com can all be used to showcase student work and campus activities. Blogger.com can enable your students to find their voice online.
2008 Power Up Your Pedagogy: Creative Commons - Share. Remix. Reuse. Legally Description: Creative Commons is an alternative copyright model, which allows you to retain the rights you want and easily give permission for others to use your work. Definition of Creative Commons, as well as a range of projects using Creative Commons licensing is in the presentation. Implications for faculty as researchers and instructors as well as for students. Learn how to locate Creative Commons licensed content and how to distribute their own work using this model.
2008 Power Up Your Pedagogy: Podcasting, SyncCasting, and Vodcasting Resources Description: This file provides a list of resources for Podcasting and Vodcasting as well as a list of resources and links for creation tools to help you create your own Podcasts or Vodcasts.
Don Wulff Photo Description: Here is Don getting in the racing theme spirit while at NINFD in 2003.
Intergenerational Understanding Emergency Med_Feb_08 Description: This PowerPoint was used in a presentation titled The Greatest, Boomers, Gen-Xers, and Millennials: Creating Intergenerational Understanding and facilitated by Mary Dankowski, Megan Palmer, and Terri Tarr. The worshop was presented to Emergency Medicine faculty and residents on February 21, 2008.
Documenting Your Teaching Description: This PowerPoint is from a workshop titled Partnering for Promotion: The Role of Teaching in the Quest for Promotion. Topics addressed include dossier preparation tips, dossier checklist for teaching, evidence to collect, and teaching philosophy statements.
Teaching Portfolio Resources Description: This bibliography is from a workshop titled Partnering for Promotion: The Role of Teaching in the Quest for Promotion. The bibliography lists print and online teaching portfolio resources.
Tip Sheet : Difficult Dialogues Description: Instructors are responsible for maintaining a civil environment where multiple perspectives are respected and valued. These tips provide faculty members with strategies for facilitating planned or unexpected discussions that challenge students’ own racial and ethnic biases.
Active Learning for Librarians Description: This is the presentation from a workshop given on 1/25/08.
2008 Jump Start Proposal Form Description: 2008 Jump Start Proposal Form. Applicants must complete online version only.
2008 Jump Start Online Course Development Program Request For Proposals Description: This is the 2008 Request for Proposals (RFP) for the CTL's successful Jump Start Online Course Development Program.
2008 EC Moore Program (draft) Description: full text of the 2008 program for the E.C. Moore Symposium
Power Up Your Pedagogy Overview Description: Web 2.0 workshop. 2/8/2008
Tip Sheet: Creating a Syllabus Description: This tip sheet has information about why a syllabus is important, how to get started writing a syllabus, and elements to include in a syllabus.
CTL Organizational Chart Description: Organizational Chart, The Center for Teaching and Learning, 2007
Nvivo Workspace Description: An overview of the workspace areas in Nvivo
Peer Review Slides-Chism 10-07 Description: These are slides from a session on peer review at the 2007 POD conference.
CTL Executive Director Position Description Long Description: This position opening was posted in fall 2007.
Developing a Rationale and Understanding of Peer Review Description: First chapter of Peer Review of Teaching: A Sourcebook
Rossman and Rallis Description: Reading for Y611
Competing Paradigms in Qualitative Research Description: Reading for Y611
2007 Associate Faculty Orientation Description: Join us for a day of discovery, reflection, and learning at the 2007 Associate Faculty Orientation. Interactive workshop sessions will cover a variety of instructional topics and lunch is provided.
Professional Development Planning Grid 2007 Description: The professional development planning grid outlines some of the areas within teaching, research, and service in which faculty members can develop, as well as resources that might be helpful at IUPUI for pursuit of growth in these areas.
Millennial Students Description: Presentation given to Gateway Scholars, June 2007.
The Greatest, Boomers, Gen-Xers, and Millenials: Creating Integrational Understanding Description: This is a copy of a PowerPoint presentation used at the May 2007 IU FACET retreat.
Introduction to Video with Premiere Pro 1.5 Description: This document will guide the novice user who is comfortable with computers to capture, perform basic editing, and export digital video from a DV tape.
CoP on Culture/Society Presentation--Moore Symposium 2007 Description: The CoP on Culture and Society gave a presentation entitled: "Tools for Bringing Diversity and Global Awareness into Our Teach and Learning" at the 2007 E.C. Moore Symposium.
Partnerships as the Driving Force of Campus Internationalization Description: This essay explores what might happen if international partnerships were viewed not just as one component of campus internationalization but as the driving, definitional force of such efforts. In so doing, it also considers why an emphasis on collaboration might be particularly appropriate right now, how internationalization programs would be reframed as a result, and what strategies can maximize the effectiveness of such partnerships.
Stressors Affecting International Students in Your Classroom (ppt) Description: Faculty members are well aware of pressures students face that interfere with academic performance. This session will provide an overview of stressors unique to international students, including U.S. Homeland Security monitoring and restrictions, culture shock & separation from family, language proficiency issues, and limited financial aid/employment options. The session will provide suggestions for faculty on how they can identify students approaching a crisis point and suggest concrete ways to seek help for students for whom counseling may be a foreign concept.
Cheating or Sharing: Academic Ethics Across Cultures Description: As students travel across cultures, they often encounter different interpretations of “cheating” and “plagiarism” than those of their home culture, which can lead to serious difficulties. What differing standards of academic ethics do international students bring to their studies in the US? How can we most effectively orient students and train faculty and staff in order to prevent crises?
Internationalize Yourself - List of IUPUI support for Interntaional/Global offices/events Description: This session explores opportunities and strategies for adding international perspectives and experience to your own profile as a faculty member, even if you have little prior international background. It stresses the importance of collaborating with international colleagues as a way of enhancing your own learning and presents ways that you can do this at IUPUI.
Improving Student Learning Through Authentic Assessment Description: In this session, participants will learn about creative strategies for assessing student learning. Authentic assessment requires students to “do” something with their understanding and knowledge in meaningful and relevant ways; the emphasis is on demonstrating knowledge through real-world application. Authentic assessment is a particularly effective strategy when working with diverse learners, because it situates learning in familiar contexts and can positively impact student engagement and feelings of efficacy.
2007 Associate Faculty Gateway Scholars Program Description: This year’s Gateway Scholars Program will include a three-day summer retreat, one late summer workshop on instructional use of technology, and three fall professional development workshops. Mark your calendars and get ready for summer fun!
Academic Podcasting - A Summary for Faculty Description: This document is a summary of Stoerger's Podcasting in Higher Education and gives a description of the current findings on podcasting in education to date, an explanation of concepts and terms, some guidelines for including podcasting in your course, and some starter ideas for innovative use of podcasting in the classroom.
Tip Sheet: Capturing Digital Video from a DV Tape Description: This tip sheet provides a step-by-step guide to capturing video and audio from DV tapes using the three most accessible programs available: Apple iMovie; Windows Movie Maker; and Adobe Premiere Pro. This sheet also includes a list of helpful guidelines for capturing video using any flavor or program.
Preparing Effective Lectures Description: This PowerPoint presentation outlines some important concepts instructors should consider when preparing a lecture. Ideas to increase student interaction and engagement are included.
Effective Lectures Description: Workshop
Tip Sheet: Helping Students Make the Most of Study Time Description: Provides practical advice for teaching students how to engage in meaningful study time.
Tip Sheet: Effective Discussions Description: Clear, practical methods for facilitating engaging class discussions.
Tip Sheet: Quick and Easy Classroom Assessment Techniques Description: Low-stakes strategies for assessing student learning during class time.
Gateway to Graduation Departmental Grant Description: Gateway Grant proposal due May 1, 2007. Awards up to $10,000, available to departments and units that focus on retention in Gateway classes.
Gateway to Graduation Project Grants Description: Available for faculty, staff and Ph.D. students with a mentor, these grants are available until March 20, 2007. Awards up to $5,000 for five different projects relating to the Gateway initiative. See RFP for full description.
2006 CA Rennovated Classrooms Description: This PowerPoint presentation outlines a study completed by higher education graduate students on rennovated classrooms.
2007 EC Moore Symposium Schedule Description: This document contains the schedule at a glance for the 2007 Edward C. Moore Symposium on Teaching Excellence.
2006 Classroom renovations Description: powerpoint presentation of classrooms renovated during summer 2006
Cavanaugh Classroom renovations Description: powerpoint review of renovations of Cavanaugh Hall classrooms to date.
Meeting minutes 10/23/06 Description: minutes from the Oct. 23, 2006 meeting
Generational Understanding 2nd Wednesday Presentation Description: This is a PowerPoint presentation from a workshop presented for the IHETS 2nd Wednesday at noon workshop. This presentation was given by Terri Tarr and Megan Palmer
Syllabus for C750: The Faculty Description: This is the preliminary syllabus for C750/U550 on the topic of The Faculty. It will examine issues of faculty work and life in higher education.
Examining the Value and Creation of Faculty ePortfolios Description: This powerpoint slideshow is of a workshop given by Megan Palmer and Nancy Chism at the 2006 AAC&U Conference on Faculty Work in the New Academy
For David Description: This is in response to the request for photos.
POD Presentation II Description: This article appeared in the Journal of Faculty Development and is about a national study of how centers evaluate their services.
POD Presentation Description: This is a summary of a study done in 2003 on how professional development centers keep track of the usage levels of their services.
Syllabus for Course on Faculty Development Description: This is the syllabus for a course on faculty, instructional, and organizational development.
Understanding and Motivating Millennial Students Description: This presentation was given by Megan Palmer and Terri Tarr to faculty from the School of Dentistry on October 6, 2006.
Profile of Four Generations Description: This document lists defining events, representative members, cultural memorabilia, technology, and core values of the greatest generation, the baby boomers, generation X, and the millennial generation.
Center for Teaching and Learning, Teaching List Description: A list of teaching positions held by the staff at the Center for Teaching and Learning
Tip Sheet: Podcasting Using the Belkin Tune Talk Description: Instructions using devices to record podcasts directly on an iPod
Meeting Minutes January 2006 Description: These are minutes on record for the LEC meeting which took place in January 2006.
Meeting Minutes January 2006 Description: These are minutes on record for the LEC meeting which took place in January 2006.
LEC Town Hall Fall 2005 Description: These are notes from the Town Hall discussion held in October 2005.
Tip Sheet: Tips for Faculty in Assisting Challenging Students Description: This tipsheets has suggestions for managing disruptive and aggressive stuents as well as information on recognizing depressed and suicidal students. Links to campus resources that are helpful in handling challenging students are also provided.
Tip Sheet: Motivating Your Students Description: Ideas for how to increase your students' interest and enthusiasm for learning in your class.
Tip Sheet: Instructional Design Issues Related to Academic Integrity in Online Courses Description: Suggestions to minimize cheating and plagiarism in online classes.
ES Corridor Survey Description: This document was used to solicit feedback to the newly created informal learning spaces in the 2nd floor ES corridor.
Evaluation of the Use of Reflection Papers: Social Work Students Speak Description: This poster session from the 2006 EC Moore Symposium documents the impact of reflections papers in social work curriculum. Strengths and limitations of their use are discussed.
Engagement with Diverse Students and Issues of Diversity Description: This presentation presents research findings from members of the Engagement with Diversity Students and Issues of Diversity Faculty Learning Community with information on fostering discussions with students about diversity and the supportive environments needed. This presentation was originally presented at the 2006 EC Moore Symposium.
Transforming Teaching and Learning Identities in the Undergraduate Classroom Description: This presentation describes the creation of virtual student in an online setting to build a person-centered classroom and engage students in learning. The presentation was originally presented at the 2006 EC Moore Symposium.
Computer Assisted Scoring of Student Essays Description: This presentation, presented at the 2006 EC Moore Symposium, details the development of a cost-efficient computer essay grading program that works jointly with course personnel to reliably assess student essays.
Multiculturalism: Your Heritage and Your Future Description: Presented at the 2006 EC Moore Symposium, this presentation looks at an activity to build classroom community while at the same time learning about student's unique heritage.
Making a Connection: The Gateway Scholars Program and Best Practices in Undergraduate Education Description: Presented at the 2006 EC Moore Symposium, this presentation explores how faculty can integrate Chickering and Gamson's (1987) Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education into their Gateway Courses.
Nursing Students Apply Research to the "Real World" and Assist in the Opening of a Health Clinic for the Uninsured Description: Originally presented at the 2006 EC Moore Symposium, this presentation reviews the experience of nursing students’ involvement in a needs assessment survey at a rural soup kitchen for low-income families. The survey would determine the need for a free clinic. Application of research to the “real world” was experienced first hand and valued by students.
Course Development and Strategies for Teaching Practical Skills and Processes in an Online Environment Description: This presentation, presented at the 2006 EC Moore Symposium, describes key elements to help design skill content with an emphasis on the instructional design and performance technology competencies.
Improve and Accelerate Group Process in Your Classes: Tips and Tools that Work! Description: Originally presented at the 2006 EC Moore Symposium, this presentation and supporting materials discusses the Accelerated Improvement Process (AIP) model, a model for improving organizational performance. Selected AIP tools and tips are discussed as is ways to apply them in your course.
Analysis of Diversity at IUPUI Description: The Community of Practice (COP) on Society and Culture presentation from the 2006 EC Moore Symposium. This presentation reports the COP's efforts to create example assignments and outcomes to align with the IUPUI Society and Culture Principle of Undergraduate Learning.
Filemanager Retirement: Using Oncourse CL while Remaining in original Oncourse Description: You can use the migration tool to copy your files from Filemanager to Oncourse CL My Workspace Resources, even if you choose to remain in original Oncourse.
Tip Sheet: Library Tools for OncourseCL Description: Listed here are some of the Library's most popular databases that can be linked under the 'Resources' menu item in OncourseCL.
Tip Sheet: Dealing with Student Academic Misconduct Description: This document has teaching tips related to dealing with student academic misconduct.
Tip Sheet: Using Icebreaker Activities Description: This document has teaching tips related to using icebreaker activities.
Types of Learning Environments Description: This document gives the definition of a variety of learning environments and how those spaces might be used.
IUPUI as a Learning Environment Description: A Concept Paper of the Learning Environments Committee August 2000
ES Corridor Study Description: This Powerpoint presentation details the transformation of the ES corridor into a series of informal learning spaces.
Creating Learning Environments Description: This document detail various issues taken into consideration by the LEC in development of new learning spaces on campus.
Tip Sheet: Connecting In-Classroom and Out-of-Classroom Learning Description: This document has teaching tips related to connecting in-classroom and out-of-classroom learning.
Tip Sheet: Getting Students to Prepare for Class Description: This document has teaching tips related to getting students to prepare for class.
Tip Sheet: Inclusive Teaching Description: This document has teaching tips related to inclusive teaching.
Tip Sheet: Increasing Student Attendance Description: This document has teaching tips related to increasing student attendance.
Tip Sheet: The First Day of Class Description: This document has teaching tips related to the first day of class.
Tip Sheet: Guiding Small Group Work Description: This document has teaching tips related to successfully guiding student group work.
Jump Start program description Description: This document contains information on the Jump Start program.
Tip Sheet: Dealing with Student Disruptive Behavior Description: This document has teaching tips related to dealing with student disruptive behaviors.
Parade of Learning Photos Description: Before and after photos of the ES corridor makeover project.
SL 061 Makeover Feedback Description: Student feedback in response to the redesign of SL 061
LEC Progress Report - January 2000 Description: This is a report on the committee's progress during the its first three months in existence.
LEC Progress Report - June 2000 Description: This is a report on progress made during the committee's first six months.
Additional Learning Environment Resouces Description: This is a list of additional resources on the impact of environment on learning.
LEC Meeting Minutes - Nov 05 Description: This is the official record of what was discussed during this meeting.
Articles on Teaching & Learning Description: The IUPUI University Library has a number of subscriptions to online magazines related to teaching and learning. Below is a collection of articles from those magazines and from the web in general that relate to teaching and learning.
Putting the Fun in Faculty Development Description: This is the PowerPoint presentation from the NINFD conference, 2005
MTLI-Gina Sanchez Gibau Description: MTLI-Multicultural Teaching and Learning: A Reflective Journey
What to Wear When You Will be on TV Description: Are you about to be recorded on video tape, appear in a TV interview, or presenting in a video conference or webcast? This document will help you decide what to wear so you will look your best in front of the camera!
Tip Sheet: Pros/Cons of Threaded Discussion Description: This tip sheet walks you thorough some of the advantages and potential pitfalls you might encounter when using a treaded discussion. Considering these points will help you decide if a threaded discussion is the right fit for your particular course goal.
Tip Sheet: Giving Peer Feedback in Online Discussion Forums Description: This simple list of technical and social guidelines is helpful for faculty to include as a resourse when conducting online discussion forums.
Tip Sheet: Chat Room Activities Description: Learn three ways to incorporate chat room activities into your course. This Tips Sheet has information that will be useful to online or traditional classes.
Multicultural Education in Higher Education Description: MTLI-PowerPoint presentation by Monica Medina
models of multicultural and syllabus change Description: Multicultural Teaching and Learning Institute--Handouts from Monica Medina
Four Elements for Multicultural Course Transformation Description: MTLI-Monica Medina-Kitano's Model
Inclusive Teaching Strategies Description: MTLI-This is the packet that Jesse and Nelson used to facilitate the conversation.
Tip Sheet: Adding Video in PowerPoint XP Description: This tip sheet will take your through the steps of adding a video clip into your PowerPoint XP presentation.
Tip Sheet: Classroom Performance Systems (Clickers) Description: This tip sheet will introduce you to Classroom Performance Systems, also known as Clickers. It includes both advantages and disadvantages of working with these systems in your classroom.
Tip Sheet: Ensuring a Good Online Discussion Description: This Tip Sheet will offer some ideas on how to incorporate a discussion forum into your online class. It includes strategies for ensuring student feedback and offers suggestions for how to moderate a the online discussion.
Tip Sheet: Requesting a Champion Account Description: This Tip Sheet will take you through the steps of requesting a Champion Account that will allow you to store course materials for use online.
Workshop - Audio in PowerPoint process Description: This Word document graphically illustrates the steps of the process for inserting/using audio in PowerPoint presentations.
Workshop - Presentation for DVD Workshop Description: This file is the entire PowerPoint for Tom Janke's DVD Workshop. The content deals with DVD media variations, DVD authoring options, and other considerations for using DVD media in academia.
Tip Sheet: Creating a PDF Description: This document discusses the various ways you can create a PDF from any program that can print. Illustrations included.